Aerospace and aviation technology

Scramjet engines are a type of jet engine and rely on the combustion of fuel and an oxidizer to produce thrust.

Build the skills for determining appropriate error limits for quantities that matter with this essential toolkit.

Unidentified phenomena in space, in the Earth's atmosphere, and in waters are too important to leave their exploration to the military and scientific laypersons.

The Federal Aviation Administration's Instrument Flying Handbook provides pilots, student pilots, aviation instructors, and controllers with the knowledge and skills required to operate in instrument meteorological conditions.

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation.

This book covers material challenges and technology innovation in coated and laminated textiles for aerostats and airships.

This book comprehensively describes the physiological changes and consequences that occur in humans during spaceflight.

This reference includes an applications focus on jet and rocket propulsion systems that will be useful for students and engineers.

By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of 'all arms' warfare on the Western Front.

Over the last few decades, both the aeronautics and space disciplines have greatly influenced advances in controls, sensors, data fusion and navigation.

This book systematically describes the concepts and principles for multi-satellite relative motion, passive and near passive formation designs, trajectory planning and control for fuel optimal formation maneuvers, and formation flying maintenance control design.

Fluid Mechanics: An Intermediate Approach helps readers develop a physics-based understanding of complex flows and mathematically model them with accurate boundary conditions for numerical predictions.

When it comes to very highly complex, commercially funded product-development projects it is not sufficient to apply standard project management techniques to manage and keep them under control.

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Chapters 1 and 2 explore the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accidents, the resulting international grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and actions needed to ensure the safety of the aircraft before returning them to revenue service.

Explore a thorough overview of the current knowledge, developments and outstanding challenges in turbulent combustion and application.

This book introduces readers to the application of orbital data on space objects in the contexts of conjunction assessment and space situation analysis, including theories and methodologies.

In the field of aeronautical dynamics, this book offers readers a design tool which enables them to solve the different problems that can occur during the planning stage of a private project.

This tour d'horizon book reviews airport regulation and competition in different regions of the world and contrasts different policy perspectives.

This is the comprehensive story of NASA's pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Planet.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

This book presents selected papers introducing readers to the key research topics and latest development trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

Every issue of Ashgate's Human Factors and Aerospace Safety: An International Journal publishes an invited, critical review of a key area from a widely-respected researcher.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) maintains an active interest in the environmental conditions associated with living and working in spacecraft and identifying hazards that might adversely affect the health and well-being of crew members.

"e;Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles"e; focuses on new control methods for flight vehicles.

Construction has begun on the International Space Station (ISS)the largest and most complex extraterrestrial construction project ever.

Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration.

This book describes the unsteady phenomena needed to understand supersonic combustion.

In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Everything you wanted to know about industrial gas turbines for electric power generation in one source with hard-to-find, hands-on technical information.

Comprehensively covers emerging aerospace technologies Advanced UAV aerodynamics, flight stability and control: Novel concepts, theory and applications presents emerging aerospace technologies in the rapidly growing field of unmanned aircraft engineering.

The capacity and quality of the atmospheric flight performance of space flight vehicles is characterized by their aerodynamic data bases.

Comprehensive overview of research on clouds and their role in our present and future climate, for advanced students and researchers.

This volume is designed as an introductory text and reference book for graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of astronomy, astrodynamics, satellite systems, space sciences and astrophysics.

This volume is dedicated to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which was launched 11 February 2010.

We approach Raphael's Agony in the Garden or Fra Angelico's Crucifixion for their beauty and not primarily to learn about fifteenth-century fashion or even to decode the iconography.

A fascinating look at Nazi Germany's radical development of a manned missile to shoot down Allied bombers.

Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration.

Bird strikes are one of the most dangerous threats to civil and military flight safety: between 1960 and 2014, they were responsible for the destruction of approximately 150 civil aircraft and the deaths of 271 people.

This book focuses on using and implementing Circulation Control (CC) - an active flow control method used to produce increased lift over the traditionally used systems, like flaps, slats, etc.

Up-To-Date Coverage of Every Aspect of Commercial Aviation SafetyCompletely revised edition to fully align with current U.

Current Aeronautical Fatigue Problems contains the papers presented at the Symposium on Current Aeronautical Fatigue Problems, held in Rome in April 1963.

Optimal Event-triggered Control using Adaptive Dynamic Programming discusses event triggered controller design which includes optimal control and event sampling design for linear and nonlinear dynamic systems including networked control systems (NCS) when the system dynamics are both known and uncertain.

This book systematically presents the operating principles and technical characteristics of the main radio navigating systems (RNSs) that make it possible to adequately evaluate the corresponding scratch indexes and levels of air safety for air vehicles, the chief concern of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Employing the same informational approach Erik Seedhouse used in "e;SpaceX"e; and "e;Bigelow Aerospace"e;, this new book familiarizes space enthusiasts with the company XCOR Aerospace and examines the design of the two-seater Lynx.

Fundamentals of Space Biology is the third textbook addressing Space Life Sciences in this Space Technology Library series.

This book provides a comprehensive description of numerical methods and validation processes for predicting transitional flows based on the Langtry-Menter local correlation-based transition model, integrated with both one-equation Spalart-Allmaras (S-A) and two-equation Shear Stress Transport (SST) turbulence models.