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Principles of Aeronautics

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction




Contributors




Advanced Composite Materials in Aeronautical Engineering




Advanced Composite Materials Repair




Advanced Propulsion




Aerobatics and Flight




Aerodynamics and Flight




Aeroelasticity




Aeronautical Engineering




Aerospace Industry in the United States




Ailerons, Flaps, and Airplane Wings




Air Flight Communication




Air Transportation Industry




Aircraft Icing




Airfoils




Airplane Accident Investigation




Airplane Cockpit




Airplane Guidance Systems




Airplane Maintenance




Airplane Manufacturers




Airplane Propellers




Airplane Radar




Airplane Safety Issues




Animal Flight




Neil Armstrong




Atmospheric Circulation




Autogyros




Autopilot




Aviation and Energy Consumption




Avionics




Avro Arrow




Daniel Bernoulli




Biplanes




Blimps




Boomerangs




Richard Branson




Conservation of Energy




Contrails




Glenn H. Curtiss




Leonardo da Vinci




DC Plane Family




Differential Equations




Dirigibles




Jimmy Doolittle




Amelia Earhart




Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)




First Airplane Flight across the English Channel




First Cross-Channel Balloon Flight




First Flights of Note




First Manned Balloon Flight




Flight Altitude




Flight Balloons




Flight Control Systems




Flight Instrumentation




Flight Landing Procedures




Flight Propulsion




Flight Recorder




Flight Roll and Pitch




Flight Schools




Flight Simulators




Flight Testing




Fluid Dynamics




Flying Wing




Forces of Flight




Steve Fossett




Yuri Gagarin




German Luftwaffe




John Glenn




Glider Planes




Robert H. Goddard




Gravity and Flight




Greenhouse Gases




Heavier-than-air Craft




Helicopters




High-altitude Flight




High-speed Flight




Hindenburg




History of Human Flight




Homebuilt and Experimental Aircraft




Hot-Air Balloons




Howard R. Hughes




Human-Powered Flight




Hypersonic Aircraft




Jet Engines




Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)




Johnson Space Center




Landing Gear




Lighter-Than-Air Craft




Otto Lilienthal




Charles A. Lindbergh




Ernst Mach




Mach Number




Materials Science




Messerschmitt Aircraft




Military Aircraft




Billy Mitchell




Model Airplanes




Monoplanes




Montgolfier Brothers




National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)




National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)




National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)




Sir Isaac Newton




Paper Airplanes




Parachutes




Plane Rudders




Wiley Post




Pressure




Propulsion Technologies




Ramjets




Eddie Rickenbacker




Rocket Propulsion




Rockets




Rotorcraft




Russian Space Program




Burt Rutan




Scramjet




Alan Shepard




Shock Waves




Igor Sikorsky




Sound Barrier




Space Shuttle




Spacecraft Engineering




Spaceflight




Stabilizers




Stealth Bomber




Supersonic Aircraft




Supersonic Jetliners and Commercial Airfare




Supersonic Jets Invented




Tail Designs




Takeoff Procedures




Taxiing Procedures




Temperature




Valentina Tereshkova




Training and Education of Pilots




Triplanes




Konstantin Tsiolkovsky




Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev




Turbojets and Turbofans




Turboprops




Types and Structure of Airplanes




Ultralight Aircraft




Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)




Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)




Jules Verne




Viscosity




Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron)




Wake Turbulence




Weather Conditions




Wind Shear




Wind Tunnels




Wing Designs




Women and Flight




Wright Brothers’ First Flight




Wright Flyer




X-Planes (X-1 to X-45)




Chuck Yeager




Bibliography




Glossary




Organizations