Provides a significant update to the definitive book on aircraft
system design
This book is written for anyone who wants to understand how industry
develops the customer requirement for aircraft into a fully integrated,
tested, and qualified product that is safe to fly and fit for purpose.
The new edition of Design and Development of Aircraft Systems fully
expands its already comprehensive coverage to include both conventional
and unmanned systems. It also updates all chapters to bring them in line
with current design practice and technologies taught in courses at
Cranfield, Bristol, and Loughborough universities in the UK.
Design and Development of Aircraft Systems, 3rd Edition
begins with an introduction to the subject. It then introduces readers
to the aircraft systems (airframe, vehicle, avionic, mission, and ground
systems). Following that comes a chapter on the design and development
process. Other chapters look at design drivers, systems architectures,
systems integration, verification of system requirements, practical
considerations, and configuration control. The book finishes with
sections that discuss the potential impact of complexity on flight
safety, key characteristics of aircraft systems, and more.
- Provides a holistic view of aircraft system design, describing the
interactions among subsystems such as fuel, navigation, flight
control, and more
- Substantially updated coverage of systems engineering, design drivers,
systems architectures, systems integration, modelling of systems,
practical considerations, and systems examples
- Incorporates essential new material on the regulatory environment for
both manned and unmanned systems
- Discussion of trends towards complex systems, automation, integration
and the potential for an impact on flight safety
Design and Development of Aircraft Systems, 3rd Edition is
an excellent book for aerospace engineers, researchers, and graduate
students involved in the field.
