Filippone A. Flight Performance of Fixed and Rotary Wing Aircraft

Elsevier, 2006. — ISBN: 0750668172.Filippone presents an accurate, detailed, well structured book that guides the reader through nearly every aspect of aircraft performance. The performance of fixed wing, rotary wing and V/STOL aircraft is considered, with the book covering both beginner and advanced topics with comprehensive derivations throughout. Unusually for technical textbooks the book is very well written and a joy to read.
The book an ideal tool for aerospace/aeronautical undergraduates and for working engineers who need a flight performance reference. Much like Timoshenko's structures textbooks and Stroud's mathematics textbooks I see this book becoming a stalwart addition to any library.Nomenclature: organizations.
Nomenclature: acronyms.
Nomenclature: main symbols.
Nomenclature: Greek symbols.
Nomenclature: subscripts/superscripts.
Supplements to the text.
Fixed-Wing Aircraft Performance.The aircraft and its environment.
Weight performance.
Aerodynamic performance.
Engine performance.
Flight envelopes.
Take-off and landing.
Climb and gliding.
Cruise performance.
Maneuver performance.
Rotary-Wing Aircraft Performance.
Rotorcraft performance.
Rotorcraft in vertical flight.
Rotorcraft in forward flight.
Rotorcraft maneuver.
Rotorcraft mission analysis.
V/STOL and Noise Performance.
V/STOL performance.
Noise performance.
AppendixA Aircraft models.
Appendix B Noise data.
Appendix C Selected simulation programs.