Aerospace and aviation technology

This multidisciplinary volume features invited contributions on mathematical applications in naval engineering.

This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of the ways in which air traffic controllers formally and informally learn about their work and the active role that organisational cultures play in shaping interpretation and meaning.

At the age of 17, Samuel L.

This research topic was first established in China by Professor ShengZhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, XueSen Qian.

In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Emerging Research in Civil, Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (ERCAM-2019).

This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the sustainability of the contemporary civil air transport system, examining its three main components: airports, air traffic control, and airlines.

While monitoring of computer-controlled systems is widespread, it is critically important in the cockpit of current passenger aircraft.

This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958.

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.

The aviation teaching environment is fairly unique and combines both traditional and non-traditional teaching environments.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Aviation is the first textbook to survey the critical field of sustainability within the aviation industry.

Scientists and policy-makers alike are concerned that operation of a fleet of high-speed civil transport (HSCT) aircraft could significantly affect the global atmosphere.

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Space exploration, especially the recent push for the commercialization and militarization of space, is attracting increased attention not only from the wider public and the private sector but also from scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

As space applications become central to modern interaction, more and more entities are becoming involved in space activities.

This book provides insight into the significance of the law of outer space in promoting order, cooperation, and peaceful activities in space.

"e;Space Sleuths of the Cold War"e; relates for the first time the inside story of the amateur spies who monitored the Soviet space program during the Cold War.

This book explains and describes re-entry systems for both the Earth and other planets.

This book contains select papers presented during the 2nd National Conference on Small Satellites, discussing the latest research and developments relating to small satellite technology.

This book is for engineers and students of aerospace, materials and mechanical engineering.

Fundamentals of International Aviation Law and Policy offers students a systematic, tailored and dynamic approach to understanding the legal scenario concerning international civil aviation.

Selecting the right aircraft for an airline operation is a vastly complex process, involving a multitude of skills and considerable knowledge of the business.

Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of expanding the role of astronauts to conduct science on future space missions led to NASA's conclusion that flying scientifically trained crewmembers would generate greater returns from each mission.

This 2007 book concerns the vibration and the stability of slender structural components.

The last few decades have witnessed substantial liberalization trends in various industries and countries.

This book presents computations for various types of aerial and ground objects.

An illustrated account of how the USAAF's might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured, Fw 190A-8 Sturmj ger.

This is a textbook for students of aircraft structures.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Composite structures are most efficient in performance and production cost when combined with smart materials making them adaptable to changing operational conditions.

This book presents methods and algorithms to improve noise immunity of the navigation systems of civil aviation aircraft, operating on the basis of satellite radio navigation systems, as well as improving the quality of the transmission of navigation information by selecting a rational communication resource.

This book is a monograph on aerodynamics of aero-engine gas turbines focusing on the new progresses on flow mechanism and design methods in the recent 20 years.

This book brings the neurosciences to operational and clinical aviation medicine.

This book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments.

This book systematically discusses the signal design theory and technologies for next-generation satellite navigation systems.

The book describes the basic concepts of spaceflight operations, for both, human and unmanned missions.

This book mainly presents the authors' recent studies on the distributed attitude consensus of multiple flexible spacecraft.

This book outlines the computational fluid dynamics evolution and gives an overview of the methods available to the engineer.

Why do aircraft fly?

The test pilot and author of Nimrod Rise and Fall shares a collection of over twenty tales from the cockpit of Nimrod aircraft during the Cold War.

* Picks up where flight training ends--shows how to get best performance using tips and tricks not taught in school* Wide-ranging coverage includes flying with family, handling different airport types, test-flying, joining a flying club, and flying for money* Discusses mastering advanced navigation systems and handling all types of weather

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter.

This book proposes a solution to the problem of incorrect use of automation tools to perform complex design work.

National Security Space Institute 2025 Space Professional Reading ListA foundational, accessible overview ofspace policy in the United StatesThisbook provides readers with the first comprehensive overview of major spacepolicies in the United States and a framework through which to analyze them.