Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance

This unique book deals with the aeroplane at several levels and aims to simulate its flight performance using computer software.

Covering aircraft flight performance, this book focuses on commercial aircraft, with some examples of military aircraft. A multidisciplinary engineering analysis is supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. Environmental performance is discussed at four levels: aircraft noise, contrail effects, landing and take-off emissions and carbon dioxide emissions.This book discusses aircraft flight performance, focusing on commercial aircraft but also considering examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. The book covers topics such as geometrical configurations, configuration aerodynamics and determination of aerodynamic derivatives, weight engineering, propulsion systems (gas turbine engines and propellers), aircraft trim, flight envelopes, mission analysis, trajectory optimisation, aircraft noise, noise trajectories and analysis of environmental performance. A unique feature of this book is the discussion and analysis of the environmental performance of the aircraft, focusing on topics such as aircraft noise and carbon dioxide emissions.