FLIGHT DYNAMICS

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Make the students solve the preliminary aircraft design calculations using the steady and
accelerated flight performance.

COURSE OUTCOMES
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
 Evaluate the performance characteristics like aerodynamic forces and power
variations of aircraft.
 Interpret the range, endurance, climbing, gliding and various manoeuvring
performances of an aircraft along with load factor and its limitations.
 Illustrate the degrees of freedom and static longitudinal stability attained in aircraft.
 Correlate the aircraft's lateral and directional stability.
 Estimate the response of aircraft in various oscillatory modes of aircraft stability.

Knowledge gained on Tools: MATLAB (moderate).

Lecture: 2hr/week Practical: 0hrs/week X-component:3hrs/week Credits: 3

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Lecture X-Component
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Setting up fixed-wing aerodynamic and control surfaces
Concept of atmosphere by creating and nesting an elevator control surface and
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and its properties. then making the aileron, rudder, wing, and vertical
stabilizer.
Drag and drag reduction Creating the propulsion models on the fixed-wing
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methods. aircraft models similar to control surfaces.
Power, range and
3 Defining the real aircraft.
endurance.
Concept of climb and the
4 Defining the coefficients on the aircraft.
rate of climb calculations.
Landing distance and
5 Preparing the aircraft for numerical analysis.
methods for reducing it.
V-n diagram and
6 Performing numerical analysis.
applications.
Concept of stability and
Determine Nonlinear Dynamics and Static Stability of
7 the aircraft's part's
Fixed-Wing Aircraft
influence on it.
8 Longitudinal stability. Importing and filling data from a DATCOM file.
Power required by Constructing a fixed-wing aircraft from DATCOM data.
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aircraft parts.
Concept of yaw and
10 Calculating static stability of the fixed-wing aircraft
sideslip.
Linearizing the fixed-wing aircraft around an initial
state.
11 Yaw stability.
 Validating the static stability analysis with a dynamic
12 Aileron effectiveness. response.

Aircraft equations of Isolating the elevator-to-pitch transfer function and

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motion. designing a feedback controller for the elevator.
Dynamic longitudinal
14 Report Preparation
stability.
Factors affecting the
15 Report Preparation
stability.