Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- Symbols -- Greek Symbols -- Subscripts -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Road Map of the Book -- The Arrangement -- Suggested Route for the Coursework -- First Semester -- Second Semester -- Suggestions for the Class -- Use of Semi-empirical Relations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.1.1 What Is to Be Learned? -- 1.1.2 Coursework Content -- 1.2 Brief Historical Background -- 1.3 Current Aircraft Design Status -- 1.3.1 Forces and Drivers -- 1.3.2 Current Civil Aircraft Design Trends -- 1.3.3 Current Military Aircraft Design Trends -- 1.4 Future Trends -- 1.4.1 Civil Aircraft Design: Future Trends -- 1.4.2 Military Aircraft Design: Future Trends -- 1.5 Learning Process -- 1.6 Units and Dimensions -- 1.7 Cost Implications -- 2 Methodology to Aircraft Design, Market Survey, and Airworthiness -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.1.1 What Is to Be Learned? -- 2.1.2 Coursework Content -- 2.2 Introduction -- 2.3 Typical Design Process -- 2.3.1 Four Phases of Aircraft Design -- 2.3.2 Typical Resources Deployment -- 2.3.3 Typical Cost Frame -- 2.3.4 Typical Time Frame -- 2.4 Typical Task Breakdown in Each Phase -- Phase 1: Conceptual Study Phase (Feasibility Study) -- Phase 2: Project Definition Phase (Preliminary Design) -- Phase 3: Detailed Design Phase (Full-Scale Product Development) -- Phase 4: Final Phase (Certification) -- 2.4.1 Functional Tasks during the Conceptual Study (Phase 1: Civil Aircraft) -- 2.4.2 Project Activities for Small Aircraft Design -- 2.5 Aircraft Familiarization -- 2.5.1 Civil Aircraft and Its Component Configurations -- 2.5.2 Military Aircraft and Its Component Configurations -- 2.6 Market Survey -- 2.7 Civil Aircraft Market -- 2.7.1 Aircraft Specifications and Requirements for Three Civil Aircraft Case Studies -- 2.8 Military Market -- 2.8.1 Aircraft Specifications/Requirements for Military Aircraft Case Studies -- 2.9 Comparison between Civil and Military Aircraft Design Requirements -- 2.10 Airworthiness Requirements -- 2.11 Coursework Procedures -- 3 Aerodynamic Considerations -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.1.1 What Is to Be Learned? -- 3.1.2 Coursework Content -- 3.2 Introduction -- 3.3 Atmosphere -- 3.4 Fundamental Equations -- 3.5 Airflow Behavior: Laminar and Turbulent -- 3.5.1 Flow Past Aerofoil -- 3.6 Aircraft Motion and Forces -- 3.6.1 Motion -- 3.6.2 Forces -- 3.7 Aerofoil -- 3.7.1 Groupings of Aerofoils and Their Properties -- 3.8 Definitions of Aerodynamic Parameters -- 3.9 Generation of Lift -- 3.10 Types of Stall -- 3.10.1 Gradual Stall -- 3.10.2 Abrupt Stall -- 3.11 Comparison of Three NACA Aerofoils -- 3.12 High-Lift Devices -- 3.13 Transonic Effects Area Rule -- 3.14 Wing Aerodynamics -- 3.14.1 Induced Drag and Total Aircraft Drag -- 3.15 Aspect Ratio Correction of 2D Aerofoil Characteristics for 3D Finite Wing -- 3.16 Wing Definitions -- 3.16.1 Planform Area, SW -- 3.16.2 Wing Aspect Ratio -- 3.16.3 Wing Sweep Angle, A -- 3.16.4 Wing Root (Croot) and Tip (Ctip) Chord -- 3.16.5 Wing Taper Ratio, Lambda -- 3.16.6 Wing Twist -- 3.16.7 HighLow Wing -- 3.16.8 DihedralAnhedral Angles -- 3.17 Mean Aerodynamic Chord -- 3.18 Compressibilit.