Aircraft Design

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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Synopsis:

Short history of aerospace engineering. Basic aircraft parts. Sefety criteria, reliability and flight fitness. Aerodynamics forces. Aerodynamics coefficients and similarity numbers. Principals of model meausements in aerodynamics tunnels. Wrapping aerospace profiles and wings. Basic flight performance of unpowered and powered flight. Stability and contollabilityof flight. Forces influencing aerospace construction. Thin walled constructions and their load. Aerospace materials. Over wiev of construction parts and systems of aircraft (wing, tail areas, fuselage, chassis, control).

Requirements:

No requirements.

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Study Objective:

Intrudiction to physical principles of aerodynamic forces creation and flight mechanics, aerospace constuction design philosophy (load, construction limit states).

Study materials:

S. Slavík: Stavba letadel, skripta FS ČVUT, 1997

Barnard R. H., Philpott D.R.: Aircraft Flight, Longman Scientific & Technical, UK 1991, ISBN 0-582-00338-5

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: