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- Category: MECHANICS. OF FLIGHT (continued)
- Effect of weight on gliding
- Real and apparent angles of glide
- Gliding angle
- Gliding and landing
- Flying for endurance - jet propulsion
- Flying for range - jet propulsion
- Range flying - effects of wind
- Effects of height - propeller propulsion
- Flying with minimum drag
- Flying for maximum range - propeller propulsion
- Effect of weight
- Effect of height
- Level flight at different air speeds
- Finding the tail load
- Methods of varying the tail plane lift
- Effects of downwash
- Loads on tail plane
- 'Tail-less' and 'tail-first' aeroplanes
- The tail plane and other horizontal control surfaces
- Difficulties in balancing the four forces
- Conditions of equilibrium
- The four forces
- Swing on take-off
- The slipstream
- Number and shape of blades
- Variable pitch
- Tip speed
- Efficiency
- Pitch of a propeller
- Advance per revolution
- Helix angle and blade angle
- How it works
- The propeller or airscrew
- High by-pass and turbofan engines
- Engine and propeller propulsion
- Rocket propulsion
- The ramjet and scramjet
- Turboprop and turboshaft engines
- Propulsion systems
- Icing
- Flaps
- Slots
- Variable camber
- Taper and shape of wing tips
- Circulation
- Induced drag
- Aspect ratio
- Design and nomenclature of aerofoil sections
- Laminar flow aerofoils
- Camber
- The ideal aerofoil
- Aerodynamic centre
- The centre of pressure and moment coefficient
- The drag curve
- Lift curve
- Lift, drag and pitching moment of an aerofoil
- Movement of centre of pressure
- Total resultant force on an aerofoil
- Centre of pressure
- Pressure distribution
- Pressure plotting
- Line of zero lift
- Chord line and angle of attack
- Aerofoils - subsonic speeds
- Other experimental methods
- Sources of error
- Other wind tunnel measurements
- Absolute and gauge pressure
- Measuring pressure
- Wind-tunnel balances
- Wind tunnels
- Skin friction and boundary layer
- Air resistance or drag
- The venturi tube
- Air speed indicator corrections
- The air speed indicator
- Stagnation pressure Static pressure = Dynamic pressure
- Air speed measurement
- Bernoulli's equation
- The international standard atmosphere
- Chemical composition of the atmosphere
- Air speed and ground speed
- Winds and up-and-down currents
- Effect of temperature and pressure on density
- Temperature changes in the atmosphere
- Decrease of pressure and density with altitude
- Inertia of the air
- Density of the air
- Invisibility of the atmosphere
- Air and airflow - subsonic speeds
- Mechanics of flight
- Moments, couples and the principles of moments
- The triangle, parallelogram, and polygon of forces
- Composition and resolution of forces, velocities, etc
- The behaviour of gases
- Pressure and density variation in a stationary fluid
- Density
- Fluid pressure
- Energy and momentum
- The mechanics of flight