Textbook
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The text book for this course in the Spring 2011 semester
consists of .pdf versions of Professor Caughey's notes.
Links for individual chapters are provided on the Lecture page;
the complete set of notes is included
here IntroFlightDyn.pdf.
This version is titled "Caughey_2011_04.pdf" and was updated on April 12.
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Class Notes,
by D. A. Caughey.
Click
HERE to see Professor Caughey's list of typographical errors
in his class notes.
These will be updated, as appropriate, throughout the semester.
An optional book containing supplementary material is:
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Flight Stability and Automatic Control,
by Robert C. Nelson.
Click
HERE to see publisher's information about the text book.
Click
HERE to see Professor Caughey's list of typographical errors
and other comments.
Note below that this book will also be placed on Course Reserve
in the Engineering Library.
Books on Course Reserve
The following books are on reserve in the Engineering Library,
Carpenter Hall, for this course.
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Bernard Etkin & Lloyd Reid: Dynamics of Flight; Stability and Control
Wiley, 1996.
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Robert C. Nelson: Flight Stability, and Automatic Control
McGraw-Hill, 1998.
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Louis V. Schmidt: Introduction to Aircraft Flight Dynamics
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.