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Daniel Raymer, Conceptual Research Corporation
AIAA Education Series
Published by AIAA, © 2006, 4th Edition, 869 pages, Hardback
ISBN-10: 1-56347-829-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-56347-829-1
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Winner of the Summerfield Book Award
Winner of the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award of Excellence.
--Over 30,000 copies sold, consistently the top-selling AIAA textbook title
This highly regarded textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design—from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studies—in the same manner seen in industry aircraft design groups. Interesting and easy to read, the book has more than 900 pages of design methods, illustrations, tips, explanations, and equations, and extensive appendices with key data essential to design. It is the required design text at numerous universities around the world, and is a favorite of practicing design engineers.
The new fourth edition is enhanced in many areas, with improvements and reworking of the text, expanded sizing and analysis methods, and up-to-date treatments of emerging technologies and concepts. A new section provides an introduction to spaceflight and rockets, including thrust analysis and vehicle sizing for launch and planetary missions. Appendices are revised and additional exam questions are provided.
Here's what the reviewers are saying:
"I never felt that I had a good formulation of (Design) until I read the introduction of Daniel Raymer’s Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach. Raymer . . . implies that design involves far more than drawing a pretty shape and then shoe-horning people, engines, and structural members into it. It involves art. Raymer’s book . . . takes a practical, rather than academic, view of the development of a design. It covers not only aerodynamics, stability, and stress analysis . . . but also the interstitial stuff about general arrangement and the interplay of competing design considerations that are really the grout that holds a design together." - Peter Garrison, in Flying, May 1997
"Reliable--as always from AIAA, the best source of quality aircraft technical literature." - Craig Roberts, Roberts Sport Aircraft
"Outstanding Reference--more homebuilders/designers should purchase this text! Keep making your books available to the EAA!!" - Brad Knapp, EAA
"It was as if this book was written specifically for me and brought closure to theoretical concepts with understanding." - James Montgomery, Homebuilder and Student
"Great book. Great value. This book has all the information one needs to start aircraft design as a beginner. Very easy to understand and clear explanations." - Chi Ho Eric Cheung, U. of Washington
"Nice approach to explaining aeronautics/aerodynamics. Easy to follow. Interesting examples. - Dennis Lester
". . . thank you for your aircraft design book. Being an aerospace engineering student it helps me a lot in my studies. Although our instructor insists on another book, which is really boring, almost 95 percent of our design class use your book." - Engineering Student, Name Withheld
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Table of Contents:
- Design—A Separate Discipline
- Overview of the Design Process
- Sizing from a Conceptual Sketch
- Airfoil and Geometry Selection
- Thrust-to-Weight Ratio and Wing Loading
- Initial Sizing
- Configuration Layout and Loft
- Special Considerations in Configuration Layout
- Crew Station, Passengers, and Payload
- Propulsion and Fuel System Integration
- Landing Gear and Subsystems
- Intermission: Step-by-Step Development of a New Design
- Aerodynamics
- Propulsion
- Structures and Loads
- Weights
- Stability, Control, and Handling Qualities
- Performance and Flight Mechanics
- Cost Analysis
- Sizing and Trade Studies
- Vertical Flight--Jet and Prop
- Extremes of Flight
- Design of Unique Aircraft Concepts
- Conceptual Design Examples
- Appendix A: Unit Conversion
- Appendix B: Standard Atmosphere
- Appendix C: Airspeed
- Appendix D: Airfoil Data
- Appendix E: Typical Engine Performance Curves
- Appendix F: Design Requirements and Specifications
- Questions
- References
- Index
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