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Trim 104
Flying wings 105
Horizontal stabilizer sizing 106
Directional stability 107
Dynamic stability 108
Phugoid motion 110
Dutch roll 110
Spiral instability 111
Stability augmentation 111
Handling 112
Fly-by-wire 113
Wrapping it up 115
Airplane Propulsion 117
5 It’s Newton again 118
Thrust 118
Power 120
Efficiency 121
Propellers 123
Multibladed propellers 125
Propeller pitch 126
Piston engines 128
The turbine engine 130
Compressors 132
Burners 136
Turbines 137
The turbojet 138
Jet engine power and efficiency 140
The turbofan 140
The turboprop 142
Thrust reversers 144
Thrust vectoring 145
Thrust augmentation 147
Wrapping it up 147
High-speed flight 149
6 Mach number 149
Lift is still a reaction force 151
Compressible air 152
Shock waves 153
Wave drag and power 155
Transonic flight 157
Wing sweep 160
Area rule 162
Hypersonic flight 165
