Flight Dynamics

”[A] tour de force of a text… . An ambitious and important work… . [It] brings the material up to the minute, tackles more topics with more depth, buttresses its analysis with MATLAB examples, and still does a superb job of stimulating and informing the reader… . Its push toward computational synthesis does open a new door for this type of text.”—John Hodgkinson, AIAA Journal“This book provides a significant addition to the existing literature on flight mechanics. It deserves to be part of the library of scholars and practicing flight mechanics engineers alike.”—Eric Feron, IEEE Control Systems

Robert F. Stengel is professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering and former associate dean of engineering and applied science at Princeton University. The author of Optimal Control and Estimation, he has conducted flight research and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on aircraft flight dynamics and control for more than forty years. He was a principal designer of the Apollo Lunar Module’s manual attitude control logic, and he contributed to the design of the Space Shuttle’s guidance and control system.