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This highly regarded textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual designfrom requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studiesin 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 has extensive appendices with key data essential to design. The book is the required design text at numerous universities around the world and is a favorite of practicing design engineers.
With the third edition, Raymer has updated his book to reflect the latest advances in technologies such as hypersonics, stealth, and STOVL, and the newest design methods including concurrent engineering, cost as an independent variable, and the impact of the factory of the future. With his usual easy-to-read style, he has expanded his treatments of such key areas as jet engine installation, CFD, trim analysis, CAD/CAM, propeller thrust analysis, weights estimation, cost analysis, and multivariable optimization. Raymer has added, by popular demand, a step-by-step description of how a typical design is developed (with illustrations), and also describes the technical concepts behind some unusual design approaches such as tailless, canard-pusher, no-lateral-symmetry (Rutan Boomerang), wing-in-ground effect, and the hypersonic waverider.
Along with the addition of metric data and equations, more than 30 new illustrations and homework examples have been added.
Here's what the reviewers are saying:
"It's full of useful rules of thumb and tables of typical sizes, strengths, pressures, and so on, and takes a practical...view of the development of a design." - Peter Garrison, author, Flying Magazine"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!" - Brad Knapp, EAA
"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, University. of Washington
This text can be used in conjunction with the RDS-Student software design package.