Aerodynamics (Module 8) covers the skills and knowledge required of the aviation maintenance technician regarding how and why aircraft fly. You will learn by understanding concepts, not just rote memorization and you will learn how and why each concept is useful in the day-day tasks of the aircraft technician in an aviation maintenance environment.
This book is fully compliant as EASA Part 66 module 8 for the B1 and B2 license and has been given approvals by numerous EASA based civil aviation authorities.
Table of Contents
Physics of the Atmosphere
International standard atmosphere, application to aerodynamics
Aerodynamics
a)Airflow around a body.
b) Boundary layer, laminar and turbulent flow, free stream flow, relative airflow, upwash and downwash, vortices, stagnation.
c) Terms: camber, chord, mean aerodynamic chord, profile (parasitic) drag, induced drag, center of pressure, angle of attack, wash-in and wash-out, fineness ration, wing shape, and aspect ratio.
d) Thrust, weight, aerodynamic resultants.
e) Generation of lift and drag, angle of attack, lift coefficient, polar curve, stall.
f) Airfoil contamination including ice, snow, and frost.
Theory of flight
a) relationship between lift, weight, thrust, and drag.
b) glide ratio.
c) steady state flights, performance.
d) theory of the turn.
e) influence of load factor, stall, flight envelope and structural limitations.
f) lift augmentation
Flight stability and dynamics
longitudinal, lateral and directional stability (active and passive)
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