Aircraft
SP-367
INTRODUCtiON
TO THE AERODYNAMICS
OF FLIGHT
Theodore
Langley
A. Talay
Research
Center
Prepared at Langley Research Center
Scientific and Technical Information
NATIONAL
AERONAUTICS
O_ce
AND
1975
SPACE
ADMINISTRATION
Washington,
D.C.
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ServiceCONTENTS
FOREWORD
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I. A SHORT
HISTORY
II. BACKGROUND
The
The
OF FLIGHT
1
..........................
5
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and Turbulence
Airplane
III. FLUID
..........................
INFORMATION
Atmosphere
Winds
lit
5
...............................
10....................................
FLOW
13
...................................
25
The
Fluid
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9.5
The
Flow
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9.5
Ideal
Fluid
Flow
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31
Real
Fluid
Flow
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39
IV. SUBSONIC
Airfoils
FLOW
EFFECTS
and WingsAerodynamic
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.................................
59
...............................
84
of Airplane
...............................
91
Propellers
and Rotors
...............................
96
V. TRANSONIC
FLOW
Total
Drag
Devices
59
VI. SUPERSONIC
The
FLOW
103
...............................
119
SST.......................................
Sonic
Boom
VII. BEYOND
Hypersonic
Lifting
Space
VIII.
................................
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THE
Flight
Bodies
Shuttle
127
SUPERSONIC
...........................
.................................
131
....................................
133
................................
ofan Airplane
131
131
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PERFORMANCE
Motions
123
137
...............................
137
Class
1 Motion
...................................
137
Class
2 Motion
...................................
149
Class
3 Motion-Hovering
IX. STABILITY
Flight
AND CONTROL
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147
151
Stability
.......................................
151
Control
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169
V
APPENDIX
A-
APPENDIX
B - DIMENSIONS
APPENDIX
C - COORDINATE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOMENCLATURE
AERONAUTICAL
AND
UNITS
SYSTEMS
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FOREWORD
The
but,
nings
science
remarkably,
powered
airplane
decades
have
of aerodynamics
and no letup
passing
ductory
the
various
The
result
is a highly
was
modified
A thorough
the
reader's
interest
of these
as presented
to pursue
herein.
more
to its
begin-heavier-than-air
landing.
science
the task
The
and technology
last
of aerodynamics
of education
Specialization
of the author's
encom-
is indicated
more
teaching
of an intro-
at the NASA
Langley
a layman's
treatment
than
individual
courses
set of notes
which,
on the
college
through
level.
the teaching
better.
withconsiderable
It is hoped
specialized
aerodynamics.
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few
education.
to provide
objectives
first
moon
and technicians
in many
notes
the
is staggering.
illustrated
the
of years
separated
manned
semesters
was
as taught
to fulfill
revision
in the text
faced
thousands
an interest,
of any
to apprentices...
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