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Winner of the Summerfield Book Award AIAA’s #1 Selling Textbook Aircraft Design: Winner of the A Conceptual Approach Sixth Edition Daniel P. Raymer Summerfield Book Award Aircraft Design: Aircraft This best-selling textbook presents the entire process of Daniel Sixth Edition aircraft conceptual design—from requirements definition A Conceptual P. Raymer to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, Approach optimization, and trade studies. Widely used in industry and government aircraft design groups, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach is also the design text at many major universities around the world. A virtual encyclopedia of Joseph A. Schetz Editor-In-Chief engineering, it is known for its completeness, easy-to-read style, and real-world approach to the process of design. Aircraft Design: A WHAT’S NEW? Conceptual Approach In this sixth edition Dr. Raymer has expanded and updated his Daniel Raymer presentation of fast-moving technologies, added lots of new material, and rewritten introductory material to make it even more “user-friendly.” ISBN: 978-1-62410-490-9 Given the ever-growing importance of electric propulsion, Raymer has added a whole new chapter entitled “Electric Aircraft.” This chapter Member: $84.95 presents technologies, design-to guidance, and rules of thumb, and List: $114.95 offers electric aircraft performance and sizing equations derived in a format familiar to those designing conventionally-powered airplanes. This encyclopedic book covers every topic necessary to the understanding of aircraft design. Preliminary sizing, aerodynamics, structures, stability and control, propulsion, configuration layout, performance, cost analysis, and much more are all presented starting from first principles and building to a set of tools allowing the reader to actually do a realistic job of aircraft conceptual design. All topics are presented from the point of view of the aircraft designer, not the specialist in any given topic area. GET YOURS TODAY! arc.aiaa.org YEAR IN REVIEW | December 2018 MORE AT aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org Airbus’ BelugaXL fl ies for the fi rst time in France. Story, Page 34. THE YEAR IN REVIEW The most important developments as described by AIAA’s technical, integration and outreach committees ON THE COVER Dummy payload: Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster and the Starman mannequin (an empty spacesuit) were photographed as they headed o toward the asteroid belt. New rockets typically prove themselves by carrying non-descript mass simulators, but Musk saw an opportunity to market Tesla and the company’s commercial spacesuit by putting them aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket that debuted in February. “You can tell [the photo series is] real because it looks so fake,” he said after the launch. The photo on the cover was taken by a camera on the pedestal-like payload adapter that holds the Roadster. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | DECEMBER 2018 | 1 19–22 AUGUST 2019 INDIANAPOLIS, IN POWERING A CHANGING WORLD The 2019 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum will bring together diverse communities of professionals that work on everything from jet engines, rockets, deep space propulsion to space habitation, electronic aircraft technologies, small satellites, and more—join them! TOPICS IN 2019 INCLUDE: › Energy-Efficient and Renewable Energy Technologies › Additive Manufacturing for Propulsion AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Systems Technology Symposium › Electric Propulsion 22–24 August › Hybrid Rockets The Electric Aircraft Technology Symposium brings together electrical › And more! engineers and aerospace experts as the industry looks to more electric propulsion technologies for future aircraft. If your SPACE CONTENT INCLUDED FOR 2019: topic is related to electric aircraft › Space Transportation technology, submit your abstract to the symposium through the forum website. › Space Logistics and Supportability › Space Systems › And more! ABSTRACT DEADLINE 31 JANUARY propulsionenergy.aiaa.org/CallForPapers YEAR IN REVIEW AEROSPACE★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ AMERICA DECEMBER 2018, VOL. 56, NO. 11 Adaptive Structures............................................. 9 Materials ........................................................... 10 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Aeroacoustics .................................................... 17 MVCE................................................................. 26 Ben Iannotta Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems ..................... 30 Microgravity and Space Processes .................... 59 [email protected] Aerodynamic Measurement Technology ............. 18 Missile Systems................................................. 60 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Aerospace Power Systems ................................. 45 Modeling and Simulation .................................. 27 Karen Small Aerospace Traffi c Management ......................... 73 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization............... 11 [email protected] Air Transportation Systems................................ 31 Non-Deterministic Approaches .......................... 12 EDITOR, AIAA BULLETIN Aircraft Design .................................................. 34 Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion ................ 53 Christine Williams Aircraft Operations ............................................ 35 Plasmadynamics and Lasers............................. 28 [email protected] Applied Aerodynamics ....................................... 19 Pressure Gain Combustion ................................ 54 EDITOR EMERITUS Jerry Grey Astrodynamics................................................... 20 Propellants and Combustion ............................. 55 Atmospheric and Space Environments .............. 21 Sensor Systems and Information Fusion............ 44 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Robert van der Linden, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics .......................... 22 Small Satellite................................................... 61 Debra Werner, Frank H. Winter Balloon Systems ................................................ 36 Society and Aerospace Technology..................... 72 CFD Vision 2030 ................................................ 74 Solid Rockets..................................................... 56 John Langford AIAA PRESIDENT Communications Systems ................................. 41 Space Architecture ............................................ 62 Daniel L. Dumbacher PUBLISHER Computer Systems ............................................ 42 Space Automation and Robotics........................ 63 Rodger S. Williams DEPUTY PUBLISHER Electric Propulsion ............................................ 46 Space Exploration.............................................. 76 ADVERTISING Energetic Components and Systems ................. 47 Space Logistics ................................................. 64 Katie Taplett, 202-904-0782 Energy Optimized Aircraft.................................. 75 Space Operations and Support .......................... 65 [email protected] [email protected] Flight Testing .................................................... 37 Space Resources ............................................... 66 Fluid Dynamics.................................................. 23 Space Systems .................................................. 67 ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN Gas Turbine Engines.......................................... 48 Space Tethers .................................................... 68 THOR Design Studio | thor.design Ground Testing .................................................. 24 Space Transportation ........................................ 69 Guidance, Navigation and Control..................... 25 Structural Dynamics.......................................... 13 MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION High-Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion ................ 49 Structures ......................................................... 14 Association Vision | associationvision.com History ............................................................... 71 Survivability ...................................................... 15 LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE Hybrid Rockets .................................................. 50 Systems Engineering ......................................... 16 Ben Iannotta, [email protected] HyTASP .............................................................. 38 Terrestrial Energy Systems ................................ 57 Inlets, Nozzles and Propulsion ........................... 51 Thermophysics .................................................. 29 Intelligent Systems............................................ 43 Transformational Flight ..................................... 77 Life Sciences and Systems ................................ 58 Unmanned Systems........................................... 78 Lighter-Than-Air Systems .................................. 39 V/STOL Aircraft Systems .................................... 40 Liquid Propulsion .............................................. 52 Weapon System Effectiveness ........................... 70 Aerospace America (ISSN 0740-722X) is published monthly except in August by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., at 12700 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite DEPARTMENTS 200 Reston, VA 20191-5807 [703-264-7500]. 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