From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. Explains the principles of aeronautics in terms, descriptions, and illustrations that make sense - without complicated mathematics.

This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. It gives great introduction to the inner working of the modern jet engine and explains the airflow phenomena in plain language.

Focuses on the synthesis of the fundamental disciplines and practical applications involved in the investigation, description, and analysis of aircraft flight including applied aerodynamics, aircraft propulsion, flight performance, stability, and control.

This book traces the technical development of the airplane from a curiosity at the beginning of World War I to the highly useful machine of today. Included are significant aircraft that incorporated important technical innovations, etc.

This book demonstrates how nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian time series estimation methods were used to produce a probability distribution of potential MH370 flight paths, which was used to define the search zone in the southern Indian Ocean.

The book is divided into three parts, namely: Introduction, The Aircraft, and Air Transportation, Airports, and Air Navigation, applying theoretical knowledge to solve practical cases using academic and industrial software, such as Python and XFLR5.

Analytical methods are developed for the response and failure of the primary structural components of aircraft, include energy principles to develop Castigliano’s theorems and to develop the cross-sectional material law for transverse shear and torsion.

This book provides an introduction to the discipline of aerospace structures and materials. It is the first book to date that includes all relevant aspects of this discipline within a single monologue.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of advanced and modern topics in flight control not yet reflected by other books, includes contributions from an international group of experts in their respective specialised fields, largely from industry.

It describes the issues that must be considered when transferring subscale results to full-scale application, focuses on the applications of the techniques to generic configurations for general research as well as to specific aircraft and spacecraft configurations.

This book is a great study guide for current pilots and for potential pilots who are interested in applying for their first license. It provides information on every topic needed to qualify for and excel in the field of aviation.

This book is an in-depth look at the ins and outs of the commercial aviation industry as it stands today. Tt will help the reader understand the policies and procedures that have been established to keep the skies of our nation safe.

It will fully immerse and engage the readers in the cyber-security considerations of this rapidly emerging technology that we know as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). It brings a breadth and quality of information that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere.

Hostile use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technology is on the forefront of DoD defense and offensive planners. It's to educate and train resources who will enter the UAS / C-UAS field and trust it will act as a call to arms for military and DHS planners.

The philosophy of this book is to provide a detailed enough explanation and analysis of optimization methods so that readers can implement a basic working version. Practical tips are included for common issues encountered in practical engineering design optimization.

This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, it then focuses on reliability theory and simulation methods for complex systems.

This book addresses this safety-crucial topic and in studying this handbook, pilots and Aviation Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) will gain the necessary knowledge on the subject of aircraft weight and balance, in preparation for safe flight and maintenance operations.

This book is a technical reference manual for professional pilots who operate under instrument flight rules (IFR), with coverage of instrument charts and procedures for IFR takeoff, departure, en route, arrival, approach, and landing.

Everything you will ever need to know about Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) is contained in this book, Notam's Illustrated, written by air traffic control specialist Jerome Miller who, as part of his job, issues notams. Don't expect it to read like a novel.

A collection of 21 Classical Flight Simulation Books available on the web. Everything there is available with permission of the copyright holders. More than 2,200 printed pages have been digitized into 800+ web pages.

This book is served as a reference text to meet the needs of advanced scientists and research engineers who seek for their own computational fluid dynamics (CFD) skills to solve a variety of fluid flow problems.

This book provides a good reference for satellite positioning techniques, engineers, scientists as well as user community. It is devoted to presenting recent results and development in satellite positioning technique and applications.

This book offers an up-to-date, easy-to-understand treatment of Global Positioning System (GPS) without bogging readers down with advanced mathematics, including GPS satellite orbit and precise point positioning and location-based services.

The book is devoted to presenting recent results and developments in GNSS theory, system, signal, receiver, method, and errors sources, such as multipath effects and atmospheric delays. It provides a good reference for GNSS designers, engineers, etc.

This book is an easy-to-use guide to basic descriptive statistics, reliability concepts, and the properties of lifetime distributions such as the exponential, Weibull, and lognormal, covers reliability data plotting, acceleration models, systems models, and much more.