Barnard R.H., Philpott D.R. Aircraft Flight: A Description of the Physical Principles of Aircraft Flight

4 edition. Pearson Education Limited, 1989, 2010. 375 p. ISBN: 0273730983, 978-0-273-73098-9.Aircraft Flight provides accurate physical, rather than mathematical, descriptions of the principles of aircraft flight. This popular text gives mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering students a useful introduction to the subject. The fourth edition has been updated to include important recent developments such as unmanned air vehicles and the low orbit space-plane.Lift.
Wings.
The boundary layer and its control.
Drag.
High speed flow.
Thrust and propulsion.
Performance.
Supersonic aircraft.
Transonic aircraft.
Aircraft control.
Static stability.
Dynamic stability.
Take-off and landing.
Structural influences.
Appendix Some Aerofoil Characteristics.