Design and Development of Aircraft Systems, 3rd Edition

Series Preface

The field of aerospace is multi‐disciplinary and wide ranging, covering a large variety of products, disciplines, and domains, not merely in engineering but in many related supporting activities. These combine to enable the aerospace industry to produce innovative and technologically advanced vehicles. The wealth of knowledge and experience that has been gained by expert practitioners in the various aerospace fields needs to be passed onto others working in the industry and also researchers, teachers, and the student body in universities.

The Aerospace Series aims to be a practical, topical, and relevant series of books aimed at people working in the aerospace industry, including engineering professionals and operators, engineers in academia, and allied professions such as commercial and legal executives. The range of topics is intended to be wide ranging, covering design and development, manufacture, operation and support of aircraft, as well as topics such as infrastructure operations and current advances in research and technology.

Modern aircraft are a good example of a complex high‐value ‘systems of systems’ where the systems addressing all aspects of operation, for instance, the flight control, engine control, electrical power, and hydraulic systems, need to be designed to function effectively both individually and also as part of the overall system. Further complications arise as these interacting sub‐systems often have conflicting requirements, will be ...