Aeronautics & Astronautics

This report describes recent trouble-shooting results in aircraft engineering concerning a self-induced fault mechanism of a hydraulic servo-valve. It presents a possible root cause for past aircraft accidents and as such helps to avoid such malfunction...

"Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. His greatness appeared in every phase of the problem. No one equaled him in power to draw new recruits to the cause; no one equaled him in...

Deep Space Craft opens the door to interplanetary flight. It looks at this world from the vantage point of real operations on a specific mission, and follows a natural trail from the day-to-day working of this particular spacecraft, through the...

This book highlights practical solutions for flight safety improvement techniques, which are currently the focus of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It has become clear that, in order to rapidly and significantly improve flight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783844309423Author Rajeev VermaFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

With current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take three years. That's a lot of time for things to go wrong. But sooner or later a commercial enterprise will commit itself to sending humans to Mars. How will the astronauts survive? Some things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632400574Author Ted DunhamFormat HardbackImprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 699g

High-contrast astronomical imaging has progressed significantly in the past decade. Many of these techniques have been laboratory demonstrated to perform at contrast levels adequate for the detection of Solar System-like planets and dust around nearby...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985665000Author David M BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint David M. BullockPublisher David M. BullockWeight(grams) 109g

This book investigates Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with a payload capacity of one metric ton for transportation. The authors provide a large variety of perspectives-from economics to technical realization. With the focus on such heavy-lift cargo UAS,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682852309Author Russell MikelFormat HardbackImprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838354101Author Ferit AkiciFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

This monograph collects and critically reviews the main results obtained by the scientific community in gyroscope technologies research field. It describes architectures, design techniques and fabrication technology of angular rate sensors proposed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917095686Author John BulakowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint John BulakowskiPublisher John BulakowskiWeight(grams) 934g

This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. The exposure is to the mysteries of lift generation by wings and the basic function of the jet propulsion engine. The text relies on simple descriptions of...

The book presents a synopsis of the main results achieved during the 3 year EU-project "Advanced Inflight Measurement Techniques (AIM)" which applied advanced image based measurement techniques to industrial flight testing. The book is intended to be not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839627842Author George DekoulisFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639186352Author Giorge TsurutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039214853Author Konstantinos KontisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 367g

This book gathers the proceedings of a symposium on Dynamics of satellites which took place in Prague in May 1969 during the twelfth COSPAR meeting. This symposium was sponsored by the International Astronomical Union, the International Association of...

The European Standard EN 9100 is the industry-specific norm of the aerospace and defence industry. For cooperation with an aerospace company, certification according to this standard is usually mandatory for suppliers. This book provides support in...

This book investigates Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with a payload capacity of one metric ton for transportation. The authors provide a large variety of perspectives-from economics to technical realization. With the focus on such heavy-lift cargo UAS,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215687796Author Rajat NarangFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Rajat NarangPublisher Rajat NarangWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838317403Author U Ur KayasalFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

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. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space...

This book describes the development and design of a unique combined data and power management infrastructure The use in small satellites gives some particular requirements to the systems like potential hardware failure robustness and handling of...

This open access book presents technologies and methods of lightweight system design to support future low-emission aviation in achieving climate targets. It will be shown how reduction of weight and aerodynamic drag affects the energy consumption of...

Geostationary Satellites Collocation aims to find solutions for deploying a safe and reliable collocation control. Focusing on the orbital perturbation analysis, the mathematical foundations for orbit and control of the geostationary satellite. The...

This book provides insight into research and development of key aerospace materials that have enabled some of the most exciting air and space technologies in recent years. The stories are shared with you by the women who experienced them, those engineers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780398280Author NASA Mission Operations DirectorateFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express...

"Meteorological Satellite Systems" is a primer on weather satellites and their Earth applications. This book reviews historic developments and recent technological advancements in GEO and polar orbiting meteorological satellites. It explores...

This book mainly presents the authors' recent studies on the distributed attitude consensus of multiple flexible spacecraft. Modified Rodrigues parameters and rotation matrix are used to represent spacecraft attitude. Several distributed adaptive...

This book presents the design of modular architecture flight simulators. Safe transportation of people and goods is one of the main directions for the development of the world economy. At the same time, in conditions of constantly increasing intensity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410224453Author NASAFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 177g

This book presents the interdisciplinary and international "Virtual and Remote Tower" research and development work. It has been carried out since nearly twenty years with the goal of replacing the conventional aerodrome control tower by a new "Remote...

Viscous flow is treated usually in the frame of boundary-layer theory and as two-dimensional flow. Books on boundary layers give at most the describing equations for three-dimensional boundary layers, and solutions often only for some special cases. This...

To understand the operation of aircraft gas turbine engines, it is not enough to know the basic operation of a gas turbine. It is also necessary to understand the operation and the design of its auxiliary systems. This book fills that need by providing...

The know-how you need to become a pro drone pilot and market your skill Licensed and skilled drone pilots are in huge demand. Drone Piloting For Dummies teaches you how to make a career out of it. From real estate to construction to inspection to mapping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783731501343Author Hermann BahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Karlsruher Institut Fur TechnologiePublisher Karlsruher Institut Fur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639645408Author Raz OdedFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint GlobeeditPublisher GlobeeditWeight(grams) 213g