- 'Aircraft Preliminary Design' Written by F.H. Robertson
Archive
CID:
Archive Reference:
- rob/7/1
Level:
Extent:
- 3 binders
Scope and Content:
Prepared by F.H.Robertson to communicate the methods which he has accumulated during his career in the aircraft industries of the UK and USA, and which Robertson found to be valid in the exercise of preliminary design.
Contents: The 'meaning' of 'preliminary design', where to start?- the specification, first estimate of fross weight, choice of power plant, wing geometry, human geometry- fuselage layout, tail unit geometry, landing gear geometry, weight and c.g. estimates, drag and thrust, performance, mission performance, operating costs, rotating wings, V/STOL airplanes and water based aircraft.
Contributions on weights by Keith Higham, and contributions on costs by Boyd Cleaveland are included.
Location:
- Box 318
Language:
- English
Former Unit ID:
- Aircraft Preliminary Design F.H. Robertson Volumes 1-6