Tag: Aircraft

Free Download Failure in Aircraft Materials
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031658493 | 131 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Material reliability is a critical factor in flight safety. For this reason, engineers and materials scientists continuously work to enhance the strength of materials to cope with the harsh conditions and potential material failures encountered during flight. This book combines theoretical knowledge and case studies to examine the fundamental and most frequent failure modes in aircraft alloys and the root causes of failures. Key topics covered include wear deformation, fracture characteristics, fatigue failure, stress corrosion cracking and creep failure. Insightful case studies explore a range of practical applications.

Free Download Combat in the Stratosphere: Extreme Altitude Aircraft in Action During WW2 by Steven Taylor
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399036939 | 256 pages | PDF | 7.93 Mb
"Taylor provides short vignettes of actual flights and combat interactions revealing performance and flight procedures used to shoot and avoid being shot down. He draws on a wide range of sources including com-bat reports, British files and documents, and first-hand ac-counts of engineers and the pilots who flew these aircraft." – The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation

Free Download Aircraft projects abandoned and prototypes by John Davis
English | May 25, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D2R5HDNT | 195 pages | PDF | 51 Mb
Aviation is one of the most competitive industries in history.Some canceled aircraft programs still arouse strong feelings among those serving at the time as well as those who worked in the aerospace industry. Sometimes projects were canceled despite showing great promise. All of these make it interesting to look back on history.

Free Download Peter Forrester, "Wings Over Somerset: Aircraft Crashes since the End of World War II"
English | ISBN: 0752465791 | 2012 | 192 pages | EPUB | 899 KB
A unique history of the staggering aircraft losses involving Somerset since 1945

Free Download Louis S. Casey – Naval Aircraft
Chartwell Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0702600253 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 123.82 MB
Text and extensively illustrated with detailed color drawings, technical detailed cut-aways and black and white photographs to illustrate the origins and development of naval aircraft.

Free Download Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031677943 | 358 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 41 MB
This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design. The design of manned aircraft and the design of UAVs have some similarities and some differences. They include the design process, constraints (e.g., g-load, pressurization), and UAV main components (autopilot, ground station, communications system, sensors, and payload). A UAV designer must be aware of the latest UAV developments; current technologies; know lessons learned from past failures; and they should appreciate the breadth of UAV design options.

Free Download Charles W. Cain – Aircraft in Profile: Volume 1/Part 2
Profile Publications | 1976 | ISBN: 0853834113 | English | 164 pages | PDF | 119.52 MB
A collection of the profile series from the 1970s. Basic information on a variety of airplane types. Dated but still useful.

Free Download Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals (Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering) by Mohammad Sadraey
English | PDF (True) | 2017 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 1681731681 | 14.5 MB
This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design. The design of manned aircraft and the design of UAVs have some similarities and some differences. They include the design process, constraints (e.g., g-load, pressurization), and UAV main components (autopilot, ground station, communication, sensors, and payload). A UAV designer must be aware of the latest UAV developments; current technologies; know lessons learned from past failures; and they should appreciate the breadth of UAV design options.

Free Download Alfred Price, Mike Spick – Great Aircraft of WWII
Abbeydale Press | 1997 | ISBN: 1861470010 | English | 336 pages | PDF | 204.32 MB
Battle-action photographs of historic planes, from the Spitfire Mark 5B and the P-51 Mustang to the B-17 and the Avro Lancaster, are combined with cutaway illustrations that detail their structure and characteristics to provides a complete visual documentary.

Free Download Bryan Cooper – Fighter: A History of Fighter Aircraft
Charles Scribner’s Sons | 1973 | ISBN: 0684135493 | English | 170 pages | PDF | 151.57 MB
This is a pictorial history of fighter aircraft, heavy on the British planes and WWI. Mostly about manufacturing and design, with analysis. Fully illustrated.