Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Fourth Edition (AIAA Education)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1563478293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 869 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Raymer implies that design involves far more than drawing a pretty shape and then shoe-horning people, engines, and structural members into it. It involves art. "I never felt that I had a good formulation of (Design) until I read the introduction of Daniel Raymer's Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach. Raymer's book takes a practical, rather than academic, view of the development of a design. --Peter Garrison, in Flying, May 1997 Reliable--as always from AIAA, the best source of quality aircraft technical literature.--Craig Roberts, Roberts Sport Aircraft Outstanding Reference--more homebuilders/designers should purchase this text! Keep making your books available to the EAA!!-- Brad Knapp, EAA It was as if this book was written specifically for me and brought closure to theoretical concepts with understanding.--James" . It covers not only aerodynamics, stability, and stress analysisbut als
The book is the required design text at numerous universities around the world and is a favorite of practicing design engineers. Winner of the Summerfield Book Award, winner of the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award of Excellence, and with over 30,000 copies sold, this is consistently the top-selling AIAA textbook title. The new fourth edition is enhanced in many areas, with improvements and reworking of the text, expanded sizing and analysis methods, and up-to-date treatments of emerging technologies and concepts. A new section provides an introduction to spaceflight and rockets including thrust analysis and vehicle sizing for launch and planetary missions. This highly regarded textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design - from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studies - in the same manner seen in industry aircraft design groups. Interesting and easy to read, the book has more than 900 pages of design methods, illustrations, tips, explanations, and equations, and has extensive appendices with key data essential to design. Appendices are revised and additional exam questions are provided.
Rulon Beesley said Five Stars. Superb in-depth coverage of aircraft ensign, clearly and entertainingly written.. Dianne Roberts said Necessary Starting Point to Understanding Aircraft Design. This is an excellent, and for the time being the authoratative, book about aircraft design. For anyone who wants to become an aerospace engineer reading a book like this should put any type of work they'll do in the proper context.The best part of this book is that it is split into two halves. The frist half talks specifically about aircraft design from a practical level, covering topics like wing planform selection, thrust to weight and wing loading determination, engine sizing, landing gear configuraiton, etc. This is the. Paul M. Booth said Homebuider/designer's opinion. An excellent text for aeronautical students aiming for the mainstream (ie jet-powered military/civil),industry.Not as good as Darrol Stinton's books. Nothing about cooling liquid-cooled piston/rotary engines.The "Simplified For Hombuilders" version is adequate for homebuilders in my opinion.