In this latest contribution to the conceptual design of an aircraftDenis Howe presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects ofloading action analysis, together with the logical extension to theconceptual design of the airframe. He thereby meets twoperceived needs which are not currently addressed by existingaircraft design texts, where loading analysis tends to be dealtwith somewhat superficially, treating only the basic symmetricflight envelope, and where structural analysis often assumes that acertain level of design detail has already been established.
Graduate and post–graduate level aeronautical students willwelcome the approach offered by Aircraft Loading and StructuralLayout. Practising engineers in the aircraft industry will find auseful loading action reference, providing a simple method for thederivation of initial structural data for input to advance analysisprograms and the interpretation of the output from them.