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description: AIAA's #1 Selling Textbook-50000 Aerospace Engineers Can't Be Wrong! Winner of the AIAA Summerfield Book Award and the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence. This best-selling textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design-from requirements definition to initial sizing configuration layout analysis sizing optimization and trade studies. Widely used in industry and government aircraft design groups Aircraft A Conceptual Approach is also the design text at major universities around the world. A virtual encyclopedia of engineering it is known for its completeness easy-to-read style and real-world approach to the process of design. Special More than 900 pages of design methods illustrations tips explanations and equations; Overviews of lofting subsystems maintainability producibility vulnerability and stealth; Concepts and calculation methods for aerodynamics stability and control propulsion structures weights performance and cost; Coverage of conventional and unconventional design methods including UAV canard tandem wing C-wing oblique wing asymmetrical multi-fuselage wing-in-ground-effect and more; VTOL helicopter New Advice on how to become an aircraft designer; Electric aircraft batteries fuel cells and solar cells; Green airplanes including biofuels GTL hydrogen methane and nuclear; Active aeroelastic wing and advanced tailless concepts; Enhanced learning materials including chapter opening summaries with set-the-stage art descriptive sidebar definitions and tips and what-we-learned chapter wrap-ups. RDSwin Software RDSwin allows engineering students to take a aircraft design from first conceptual layout through functional analysis leading to performance range weight and cost results. By automating the grunt work of vehicle analysis RDSwin makes enough time for the student to truly learn design. RDSwin integrates Design Layout (CAD) aerodynamics weights propulsion (jet &amp; prop) stability &amp; control sizing range performance and cost analysis. All new all-original code (even the CAD module) all optimized for aircraft conceptual design and analysis. A true 32-bit Windows* Application with Windows pulldown menus popup boxes fonts graphics dialog boxes clipboard read/write Undo/Redo and more. RDSwin outputs analysis results and program data to popup boxes text files Windows printers or directly to your spreadsheet word processor or internet browser. (*) Microsoft(R) and Windows(R) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. RDSwin is not a product of nor is it tested or endorsed by Microsoft. Buy both the RDSwin Student Software and Aircraft A Conceptual Approach Fifth Edition and Save!
language: English
title: Aircraft Design / RDS-Student: A Conceptual Approach
publisher: Amer Inst of Aeronautics &