1. Introduction
2. Aerodynamic Review
3. Propeller Analysis
4. Flying Wing (or Tailless Airplanes)
5. Canard Airplanes and Biplanes
6. Flight Dynamics
7. Performance
8. Balloons and Airships
Appendix A. Multhropp Body-Moment Equation
Appendix B. Alternative Swept-Wing Analysis
Appendix C. Rigid-Body Equations of Motion
Appendix D. Apparent-Mass Effects
Appendix E. Lift of Finite Wings Due to Oscillatory Plunging Acceleration
Biography
James DeLaurier has worked as an aerospace engineer, consultant, and professor. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has worked at McDonnell Aircraft, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Sheldahl Corporation, and the Battelle Memorial Foundation. Until his retirement in 2006, Dr. DeLaurier was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Toronto. His specialties include aircraft design, lighter-than-air aerial vehicles, flapping-wing flying machines, and remote-piloted/microwave-powered aircraft.
