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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 3
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Contact Hours per Week: 2
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Description
Drag of an Aircraft - Techniques and devices to reduce drag. Airfoil characteristics at low Reynolds number. Lift and drag at high Mach number. Effect of supercooled cloud, drizzle, rain and icing on airfoil performance. Stability - longitudinal and lateral static and dynamic stability, stability and manoeuvre margins, aircraft loading strategies, reduced stability aircraft. Control-trimmed flight, aircraft response to control input, limits of controllability.
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