Register for AIAA’s Fundamentals of Airplane
Performance, Stability, Dynamics, and Control
ONLINE SHORT COURSE
OVERVIEW
This five-week online course offers an extensive and integrated overview of several interrelated disciplines
involving airplane performance. It is intended for aerospace engineers, researchers, technical managers,
and graduate students who are interested in learning more about this important discipline.
LEARN MORE AT
aiaa.org/events-learning/online-education
TOPICS
› Equations of Motion for Flight in Vertical Plane
› Gliding Flight
› Level Flight
› Climbing Flight
› Range and Endurance
› Turning Flight
› Takeoff and Landing
› Concept of Equilibrium and Stability
› Static Longitudinal Stability
› Stability in Maneuvering Flights
› Static Directional Stability
› Lateral Stability
› Axes Systems, Euler Angles, Coordinate
Transformations, Direction Cosine Matrix› Equations of Motion and Linearization of
Equations of Motion
› Estimation of Stability and Control Derivatives
› Longitudinal Response
› Closed-Loop Longitudinal Flight Control
› Lateral/Directional Response
› Closed-Loop Lateral/Directional Flight ControlDETAILS
›Fridays, 20 March – 17 April 2020
›1300–1500 hrs EST
›All sessions will be available on demand
› Cost: $595 USD — Member
$395 USD — Student Member
$795 USD — Nonmember