Abzug M.J. Computational Flight Dynamics

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. — 470 p. — (Computers).More than 100 illustrations and a five-program software package are combined in "Computational Flight Dynamics, a detailed instructional kit illustrating digital solutions to problems in aircraft dynamic stability, control, and flight performance. Busy aerospace engineers, scientists, and graduate students with a working knowledge of FORTRAN will learn-in a step-by-step format-several effective programming techniques in a range of flight dynamics areas. Of the five programs included, FLIGHT and LOCUS-both previously used in flight control system designs for two production unmanned air vehicles-provide the necessary tools for studying uncontrolled aircraft motions, stability, and the design of automatic flight control systems.Airframe and Atmosphere Modeling
Control and Guidance System Modeling
Program LOCUS: s-Plane Root Locus
Program ZPLANE: z-Plane Root Locus
Program FLIGHT: Transient Response
Program PERFORM: Flight-Path Calculation
Program COVAR: Covariance Propagation
Utility Subroutines
Aerodynamic Databases