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Understanding Performance Flight Testing - Secure eBook

Understanding Performance Flight Testing - Secure eBook


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Product Features

  • ISBN: 9780071376792
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill
  • Author: Hubert Smith
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Pages: 241
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  • eBook Specifications

    • Type: Secure eBook (PDF)
    • Printing: Not Allowed
    • Copy/Paste: Not Allowed
    • Offline Access: Yes
    • Search: Yes
    • Bookmarks: Yes
    • Compatibility: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android

Covers lightplane performance flight testing methods, measures, and computer applications with sample spreadsheets containing equations to help readers perform their own flight tests. Describes GPS (Global Positioning System) test method for airspeed calibration and rapid-wind camera method for takeoff performance

From the Back Cover:
The best way to assess every important flight characteristic of your plane, Skip Smith's unique handbook makes flight performance testing simple.

Performance-test your aircraft with easy-to-use methods. How fast does it fly? How nimbly does it climb? What speed will induce stalls? What's it's glide ratio? Are the instruments accurate? Pilots need this information for safety, but they also want it for fun and bragging rights. With understanding performance flight testing, you can get accurate data on your home built, kitplane, or production aircraft easily and precisely, without head scratching, complex instruments, or wrestling with math.

Topics Include:

  • Effects of the Atmosphere
  • General Flight Test Procedures
  • Airspeed Calibration
  • Stall Speed
  • Takeoff Performance
  • Climb Performance
  • Cruise Performance
  • Descent and Landing Performance
  • Computer Methods
  • Evaluating Modification Effects

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