Flight Mechanics for Pilots

Teaching material for student pilots of the Italian Air Force Academy

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Introduction

Types of Aircraft
Types of Propulsion
Anatomy of Conventional Airplanes
Anatomy of Flight
External Actions on the Aircraft
Lift
Drag
Aerodynamic Pitching Moment
Miscellanea

Aircraft and the Environment

The Atmosphere
International Standard Atmosphere
Airspeeds

Aircraft Performance

Flight Physics
Drag Polar
Thrust and Power required
Level Flight
Climbing and Descending Flight
Range and Endurance
Turning Flight
Pull-Up Flight
Take-Off
Landing
Slides

Aircraft Stability and Control

Longitudinal Stability
Lateral-Directional Stability

References

Contact

Jupyter notebooks

anatomy
isa
legend
sample

Climbing and Descending Flight Performance

Slides in Italian here.

FlightMechanics4Pilots is maintained by agodemar. — (c) Agostino De Marco, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Published: Sun, May 24, 2020