Название: Spinning Flight: Dynamics of Frisbees, Boomerangs, Samaras, and Skipping Stones
Автор: Ralph D. Lorens
Издательство: Springer
Страниц: 346
Формат: PDF в RAR
Размер: 15,1 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 2006
Язык: английский
ISBN: 0387307796
More frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined. Yet these familiar flying objects have subtle and clever aerodynamic and gyrodynamic properties which are only recently being documented by wind tunnel and other studies. In common with other rotating bodies discussed in this readily accessible book, they are typically not treated in textbooks of aeronautics and the literature is scattered in a variety of places. This book develops the theme of disc-wings and spinning aerospace vehicles in parallel. Since many of the examples are recreational, anyone who enjoys these activities will likely find it profitable and enjoyable. In addition to spinning objects of various shapes, several exotic manned aircraft with disc planforms have been proposed and a prototypes built – these include a Nazi ‘secret weapon’ and the De Havilland Avrocar, also discussed in the book
