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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
ABC of Flight Mechanics: How Do Planes Fly?
ISAE-SUPAERO
This course explained how planes fly, how pilots can control their trajectory, and what happens if they fly too low or too fast. Turning, stalling, computing a range or sizing a wing have been learnt. More based on explanations than on mathematic demonstration, this course made extensive use of diagrams, animations, actual airplane pictures and video, and even flight experimentation on ISAE-SUPAERO airplanes and full flight simulator.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Eric Poquillon
Lead Flight Test Engineer, Flight Dynamics Professor, Flight Experimentations Officer
ISAE-SUPAERO
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Name the parameters and concepts used in flight mechanics (e.g., angle of attack, flight path angle, trim, total height)
- Describe the standard atmosphere and explain the effect of altitude on the flight characteristics of an airplane
- Describe the forces applying on an airplane at equilibrium or while maneuvering, explain how it flies and the origin of its flight envelope limits
- Roughly size the airfoils of an airplane and the power of its engine
Syllabus
The course goes through the following topics:
- General description of an airplane
- Atmosphere physics and Newton’s laws applied to the airplane
- Lift, stall and ceiling
- Drag and propulsion forces
- Longitudinal stability
Issued on 14th September 2020
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