General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures

From an engineer with fifteen years of design experience, General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures is a practical handbook that serves as the first source for answers to practical aircraft design questions. The book is organized by articles and structured in an "equation/derivation/solved example" format for easy access to content. Readers will find it a valuable guide to practical topics such as sizing of horizontal and vertical tails to minimize drag, sizing of lifting surfaces to ensure proper dynamic stability, numerical performance methods, and common faults and fixes in aircraft design. In most cases, numerical examples involve actual aircraft specs.