Flight Mechanics for Pilots
Teaching material for student pilots of the Italian Air Force Academy
External Actions on the Aircraft
Relationship of forces acting on an aircraft.
Angle of attack at various speeds.
Force vectors during a stabilized climb.
Linear and angular speed components, force and moment components in aircraft body-fixed frame.
Aircraft in non-symmetric flight and aerodynamic axes.
Aircraft CoG trajectory in a roll maneuver.
Two airplanes, two roll maneuvers in opposite directions.
Aircraft CoG trajectory in a pull-up maneuver.
Two airplanes, two converging pull-up maneuvers.
Body-axis components of aircraft angular velocity $\mathbf{\Omega}$.
North-East-Down (NED) conventional Earth-fixed reference frame.
Aircraft attitude angles (Euler angles) with respect to a Earth-fixed (NED) reference frame.
Velocity vector $\boldsymbol{V}$, ground track, airplane attitude angles $\phi$ and $\theta$ ($\psi=0$).