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- Category: MECHANICS. OF FLIGHT (continued)
- Projectiles and satellites
- Escape from the earth
- The law of universal gravitation
- Ballistics and astronautics
- Lifting bodies
- Flight at hypersonic speeds
- Concorde
- Stability and control problems
- Kinetic heating
- Supersonic body shapes
- Supersonic wing shapes - aerofoil sections
- Supersonic wing shapes - plan form
- Boundary layer and supersonic flow
- Subsonic and supersonic flow - a summary
- Expanding-contracting duct
- Convergent-divergent nozzle
- Supersonic flow over an aerofoil
- Expansive flow
- Compressive flow
- Supersonic flow
- Mach angle
- Flight at supersonic speeds
- Other devices to prevent or delay separation
- Vortex generators
- Area rule
- Control problems
- Raising the critical Mach Number - sweepback
- Raising the critical Mach Number - slimness
- Sonic bangs
- Shock waves and pressure distribution
- Shock-wave patterns
- Experimental methods
- Height and speed range
- Behaviour of aeroplane at shock stall
- Flight at transonic speeds - the pilot's point of view
- Flight at transonic speeds - drag and power required
- Subsonic - transonic - supersonic
- Drag rise in the transonic region
- Critical Mach Number
- Variation of speed of sound
- Mach Number
- Shock drag
- Effects of shock waves - the shock stall
- Observation of shock waves
- Shock waves
- Approaching the speed of sound
- Compressibility and incompressibility
- Flight at transonic speeds
- Circuit, approach and landing
- Some simple exercises
- Take off
- Taxying
- Pre-flight checks
- Dynamic stability
- Powered controls
- Control at low speeds
- Mass balance
- Tabs of this kind are called spring tabs
- Balanced controls
- Control of an aeroplane
- Lateral and directional stability
- Directional stability
- Fin area and lateral stability
- High wing and low centre of gravity
- Dihedral angle
- Lateral stability
- Longitudinal dihedral
- Longitudinal stability
- Stability and control
- Manoeuvrability
- Aerobatics
- Controls on steep banks
- Other problems of turning
- Correct and incorrect angles of bank
- Loads during a turn
- The load factor
- Pulling out of a dive
- Accelerations
- Ceiling
- Effect of altitude on power curves
- Effect of changes of engine power
- Maximum and minimum speeds of horizontal flight
- Power curves - propeller propulsion
- Climbing
- Performance
- Effect of flaps on trim
- The complete approach and landing
- Surface skimming vehicles
- Other short and vertical take-off aircraft
- The helicopter
- The gyroplane
- Landing speeds and the future
- Method of finding minimum landing speed
- Wing loading
- High lift aerofoils
- Possibilities of lower minimum speeds
- Stalling speed
- Landing
- Disadvantages of flat gliding angle
- Endurance on the glide