BRIAN L. STEVENS
FRANK L. LEWIS
ERIC N. JOHNSON
AIRCRAFT CONTROL
AND SIMULATION
DYNAMICS, CONTROLS DESIGN,
AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
THIRD EDITION
AIRCRAFT CONTROL
AND SIMULATION
AIRCRAFT CONTROL
AND SIMULATION
Third Edition
BRIAN L. STEVENS
FRANK L. LEWIS
ERIC N. JOHNSON
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
1 The Kinematics and Dynamics of Aircraft Motion 1
1.1 Introduction / 1
1.2 Vector Operations / 3
1.3 Matrix Operations on Vector Coordinates / 7
1.4 Rotational Kinematics / 16
1.5 Translational Kinematics / 20
1.6 Geodesy, Coordinate Systems, Gravity / 23
1.7 Rigid-Body Dynamics / 34
1.8 Advanced Topics / 44
References / 58
Problems / 59
2 Modeling the Aircraft 63
2.1 Introduction / 63
2.2 Basic Aerodynamics / 64
2.3 Aircraft Forces And Moments / 75
2.4 Static Analysis / 101
2.5 The Nonlinear Aircraft Model / 108
2.6 Linear Models And The Stability Derivatives / 116
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