Understanding Performance Flight Testing
Subtitle: Kitplanes and Production Aircraft
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: August 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780071376792
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction; Transportation; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Aviation - Commercial; Science / Mechanics / Dynamics / Aerodynamics; Understanding Performance Flight,Climb Performance,Takeoff Performance,Airspeed Calibration,Flight Test Procedures,General Flight Test,Atmosphere,Production Aircraft Acknowledgments,Production Aircraft,Kitplanes,Performance Flight Testing,Evaluating Modification Effects; Airplanes; Flight testing
First sentence: In addition to the characteristics of the airplane itself, performance depends a great deal on the nature of the atmosphere through which the airplane flies.