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2-g turn, 6, 35, 192 Backside of the power curve, 38, 182
Balance, 98, 100
Ablation, 168 Bank angle, 7
Adverse yaw, 72 Bell, Alexander Graham, 11
Afterburner, 147 Bernoulli, Daniel, 16
Ailerons, 3, 6 Bernoulli’s principle, 10, 15, 26, 205,
Airbus A-320, 114 229–231
Air density, 33, 35, 39 misapplications of: Bernoulli strip,
humidity effect, 33 229
temperature effect, 33 curve of spinning baseball, 232
Airbus A-320, 91 Ping-Pong ball in the jet of air,
Airfoil, 3, 57 232
Airframe, 1 Blockage effect, 221
Airspeed indicator, 12, 177 Boeing:
Angle of attack, 4, 30, 35 247, 128
effective, 30 707, 139, 222
geometric, 4, 30 727, 90, 139
Anhedral, 73 737, 75, 106, 139, 142
Armstrong, Neil, 182, 221 747, 34, 80, 84, 91, 121, 128, 160,
Axis of rotation: 173, 178, 184, 190, 201, 213, 218
lateral, 5 767, 176
longitudinal, 5 777, 77, 94–95, 101, 106, 115, 123,
vertical, 6 136, 139, 142, 143, 180, 199
Area rule, 162–164 Boeing, William, 145
Aspect ratio, 5, 43, 54, 62 Boundary layer, 22, 80
laminar flow, 80
B-2 Bomber, 80, 105, 108, 196 turbulence, 80
B-47 Bomber, 162 Braking, 226

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