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Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Fourth Edition (AIAA Education) Hardcover – 28 July 2006

by D. Raymer (Author)
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Winner of the Summerfield Book Award, winner of the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award of Excellence, and with over 30,000 copies sold, this is consistently the top-selling AIAA textbook title. This highly regarded textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design - from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studies - in the same manner seen in industry aircraft design groups. Interesting and easy to read, the book has more than 900 pages of design methods, illustrations, tips, explanations, and equations, and has extensive appendices with key data essential to design. The book is the required design text at numerous universities around the world and is a favorite of practicing design engineers. The new fourth edition is enhanced in many areas, with improvements and reworking of the text, expanded sizing and analysis methods, and up-to-date treatments of emerging technologies and concepts. A new section provides an introduction to spaceflight and rockets including thrust analysis and vehicle sizing for launch and planetary missions. Appendices are revised and additional exam questions are provided.
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    AIAA Education
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    869 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast.
  5. Publication date
    28 July 2006
  6. Dimensions
    15.88 x 5.08 x 23.5 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1563478293
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1563478291
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"I never felt that I had a good formulation of (Design) until I read the introduction of Daniel Raymer's Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach. Raymer... implies that design involves far more than drawing a pretty shape and then shoe-horning people, engines, and structural members into it. It involves art. Raymer's book... takes a practical, rather than academic, view of the development of a design. It covers not only aerodynamics, stability, and stress analysis...but also the interstitial stuff about general arrangement and the interplay of competing design considerations that are really the grout that holds a design together. --Peter Garrison, in Flying, May 1997 Reliable--as always from AIAA, the best source of quality aircraft technical literature.--Craig Roberts, Roberts Sport Aircraft Outstanding Reference--more homebuilders/designers should purchase this text! Keep making your books available to the EAA!!-- Brad Knapp, EAA It was as if this book was written specifically for me and brought closure to theoretical concepts with understanding. --James"

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast.; 4th edition (28 July 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 869 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1563478293
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1563478291
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 5.08 x 23.5 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Useful engineering material. It misses abreviation tables.
Reviewed in Canada on 27 October 2016
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Very useful engineering material especially for engineering design. The book avoided the useless mathematical approach of academic text books and it is focused on practical process for design and calculations.
The problem with it is that some subjects were divided among different chapters and you have look in different places to get the complete picture.
I was also disappointed that there are no abbreviation tables in the beginning of the book or the chapters. If you missed one abbreviation you will stay lost.
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Mubeen
5.0 out of 5 stars Aircraft Design [Raymer] - 3. Auflage 1999
Reviewed in Germany on 19 November 2016
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Ein "must-have" für die Ingenieure, die arbeiten im bereich Konzeptphase des Designs.
Raymer covers step-by-step almost all aspects of design in concept phase.
The book is although 17 years old, yet there are no other well known text with this particular approach.
One draw back is that, the book uses FPS/Imperial (US Customary Systems) Units.
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ALCY
5.0 out of 5 stars 航空機設計の基礎の基礎
Reviewed in Japan on 24 October 2012
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航空機の企画、性能検討、概念設計をカバーした良著と思います。
日本で同等の本はたぶん得られないでしょう。
特にミッションプロファイルに関しては日本では機密になる機体しか無い訳ですから…。

航空機エンジニアさんなら英語は必須ですし、必携の書といって良いのではないでしょうか？
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Dianne Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary Starting Point to Understanding Aircraft Design
Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2005
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This is an excellent, and for the time being the authoratative, book about aircraft design. For anyone who wants to become an aerospace engineer reading a book like this should put any type of work they'll do in the proper context.

The best part of this book is that it is split into two halves. The frist half talks specifically about aircraft design from a practical level, covering topics like wing planform selection, thrust to weight and wing loading determination, engine sizing, landing gear configuraiton, etc. This is the applied, design oriented type of knowledge and thinking that all engineers need and is unfortunately not being taught by most schools, albeit it is of course specific to aircraft. (My college had just one ten week aircraft design course over an entire four year curriculum. The course was offered in two sections. Only one of the sections even had this book on the reading list, and then didn't even use it in class!) The second half delves into the analytical methods that are used to "size" different parts of the aircraft, such as methods to predict drag (for engine thrust in cruise), to predict downwash both subsonically and supersonically (effects total lift and stability and control), to determine rough sizes of beam and torsion members of the structure, to size the control surfaces for stability and control, etc. There's also a good interlude where the author gives us a step-by-step example of how you could do conceptual design. (This is not the ONLY way to do conceptual design, but it's important to have SOME method and this is a great introduction to one.) It also has two good example designs in the appendix, plus LOTS of good reference data throughout the book.

This is the type of book that should be read first by anyone involved with aircraft design and/or research and development so that they can understand the big picture framework of how aircraft are generally configured.
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Christian Wilhelmsen
4.0 out of 5 stars A good book with a lot of relevant information
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2015
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A good book with a lot of relevant information. A lot of text, for most parts its good. The formulas could be shown a bit more directly shown instead of a wall of text describing the formula. Could be a SI version instead of old fashion units.
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