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Flight Dynamics Principles, 2nd Edition
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Flight Dynamics Principles, 2nd Edition

by Michael V. Cook
February 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
488 pages
17h 21m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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Ch03-H6927.tex 30/6/2007 12: 19 Page 40
40 Flight Dynamics Principles
Lift coefficient C
L
0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4
Pitching moment coefficient C
m
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
Aircraft without tail
h
T
 1.95°, h 10°
h
T
 1.95°, h  10°
h
T
 1.95°, h 0°
Figure 3.7 C
m
α plots for a 1/6th scale model of the Handley Page Jetstream.
200 ft/s and the Reynolds number was Re =1.2 ×10
6
based on mean aerodynamic
chord
c. The HP-137 is in fact the well known Jetstream aircraft; however, it is not
known if the data shown are representative of the actual aircraft flying today.
The plots show the characteristic for the aircraft without tail and for the ...
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ISBN: 9780750669276