Introduction to Aircraft Flight Dynamics

Intended as an introductory text for use in either a senior undergraduate- or first-year graduate-level aeronautical engineering program, this comprehensive textbook incorporates the latest theories and concepts used in the analysis and design of modern aircraft. The author uses linear algebraic principles and notations to establish airframe equations of motion and uses modern control theory to introduce the airframe as a plant matrix operator. Several examples in the text use MATLAB. An appendix containing MATLAB M-files is included.