This is the second book in a series of eight volumes on airplane design. The airplane design series has been
internationally acclaimed as a practical reference that covers the methodology and decision making involved in
the process of designing airplanes. Educators and industry practitioners across the globe rely on this compilation
as both a textbook and a key reference. Airplane Design Part II: Preliminary Configuration Design and Integration
of the Propulsion System, familiarizes the reader with the following fundamentals:
Selection of the overall configuration
Design of cockpit and fuselage layouts
Selection and integration of the propulsion system
Class I method for wing planform design
Class I method for verifying clean airplane maximum lift coefficient and for sizing high lift devices
Class I method for empennage sizing and disposition, control surface sizing and disposition, landing gear
sizing and disposition, weight and balance analysis, stability and control analysis and drag polar determination