Since the education of aeronautical engineers at Delft University of Technology started in 1940 under tae inspiring leadership of Professor H.J. van der Maas, much emphasis has been placed on the design of aircraft as part of the student's curriculum. Not only is aircraft design an optional subject for thesis work, but every aeronautical student has to carry out a preliminary airplane design in the course of his study. The main purpose of this preliminary design work is to enable the student to synthesize the knowledge ob- tained separately in courses on aerodynamics, aircraft performances,...

"Advanced Aircraft Design: Conceptual Design, Technology and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes "comprehensively covers the advanced design of conventional and advanced civil aircraft. The book is intended primarily to support designers and researchers in understanding the complex relationships between effects on airplane characteristics of varying design parameters, and may also be useful to validate design synthesis and optimization programs. Moreover, the simplicity of analytical criteria can be useful to quickly estimate the effect of introducing different technologies for...

Knowledge is not merely everything we have come to know, but also ideas we have pondered long enough to know in which way they are related, and 1 how these ideas can be put to practical use. Modern aviation has been made possible as a result of much scienti c - search. However, the very rst useful results of this research became ava- able a considerable length of time after the aviation pioneers had made their rst ights. Apparently, researchers were not able to nd an adequate exp- nation for the occurrence of lift until the beginning of the 21st century. Also, for the fundamentals of...