Chap1&2 History&Anatomy

1Principles of FlightMEC 2710

Principles of Flight (MEC 2710)

Course Outline Instructor

Dr. Moumen Idres Office hours: Mon Wed (10:00 AM 1:00 PM) Office: E0-3-74

Tutor TBD

Evaluation Assignments : 5% Quizzes: 20% Midterm Exam: 30% Project 5% Final Exam: 40%

Principles of Flight (MEC 2710) 2

Classes Tuesday - Thursday

2Course Outline References

Required: Anderson Jr., J. D. (2008). Introduction to Flight, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, Inc.,

New York.

Recommended: Anderson, Jr. J. D.(1999). Aircraft Performance and Design, International

Ed., WCB, McGrawHill, Singapore. Asselin, M.(1997). An Introduction to Aircraft Performance, AIAA Education

Series, Ohio. McCormick, B.W. (1995). Aerodynamics Aeronautics and Flight Mechanics,

2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Newman D (2002) Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design Mc


Newman, D. (2002). Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, Mc Graw Hill, N.Y.

Shevell, R.S. (1989). Fundamentals of Flight, Prentice Hall,N.J.

History of Flight Nature as inspiration

Imitating Birds


3History of Flight Nature as inspiration

Imitating Birds


History of Flight Leonardo da Vinci conceives the ornithopter and leaves more than 500 sketches of his design, drawn from 1486 to 1490. However, this approach to flight proves to be unsuccessful over the ensuing centuries


4History of Flight


History of Flight The Montgolfier hot-air balloon floats over Paris on November 21, 1783. For the first time in history, a human being is lifted and carried through the air for a sustained period


5History of Flight At 1799, Sir George Cayley in England engraves on a silver disk his concept of a fuselage, a fixed wing, and horizontal and vertical tails. He is the first person to propose separate mechanisms for the generation of lift and propulsion. He is the grandparent of the concept of the modern airplane.


History of Flight Otto Lilienthal designs the first fully successful gliders in history. During theperiod from 1891 to 1896, he achieves more than 2000 successful glider flights. If he had not been killed in a glider crash in 1896, Lilienthal might have achieved powered flight before the Wright brothers.


6History of Flight Samuel Langley, achieves the first sustained heavier-than-air, unmanned,

powered flight in history with his small-scale Aerodrome in 1896. However, his attempts at manned flight are unsuccessful, the last one failing on December 8, 1903 just nine days before the Wright brothers' stunning success.


History of Flight In December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first controlled, sustained, powered, heavier-than-air, manned flight in history. This flight is to revolutionize life during the 20th century.


7History of Flight


Future of Flight

Hypersonic

Vehicle

Micro Air Vehicles


Morphing Vehicle

8Chap2: Fundamental Thoughts


Source of Aerodynamic Forces


9Aerospace Vehicles

Aerospace vehicles

Atmospheric vehicles such as airplanes and helicopters, which always fly within the sensible atmosphere

space vehicles such as satellites, the Apollo lunar vehicle, and deep-space probes, which operate outside the sensible atmosphere (space).


Anatomy of Airplane


Monoplane single set of wingsStraight wing low subsonic Swept wing high subsonic and supersonic

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Anatomy of Airplane

Swept back wing


Anatomy of Airplane

Swept forward wing

Canard (forward horizontal stabilizer) not popular because it interferes with the flow around wing g


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Anatomy of Space Vehicle

Launch Vehicles ( Rocket launcher)

Used to carry the space vehicle to space

Expendable : one time launch Recoverable : multi launching capability Recoverable : multi-launching capability

space shuttle


Anatomy of Space Vehicle

Voyager 2 sent in 1977 to explore the


Voyager 2 sent in 1977 to explore the outer planets of the solar system.

It passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It is now 10 billion Km from earth and still going. Communication ended in 2003.

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