Fundamentals of Flight mechanics Specialization

How do planes take off? How do they fly? How do pilots maintain control of them? And how high can airplanes fly?
Get answers to all these questions and more with this specialization exploring the fundamentals of flight mechanics. You will learn how the laws of physics apply to airplanes and discover important concepts in aviation including lift, drag, and propulsion.
What You Will Learn:
- How Mach number can impact stall speed.
- Why turboprops consume less than turbojets.
- What exactly mean indications given by flight instruments (i.e. anemometer, altimeter).
- Use precise and appropriate words to describe an airplane and its motion in the air.

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Flight mechanics - Propulsive balance and energy (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Flight mechanics - Propulsive balance and energy (Coursera)
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This course is dedicated to energy management, i.e. speed and altitude control. The various sources of drag are first described and modeled, as well as thrust origin, and evolution with speed and altitude. Using these models, we can evaluate the propulsive balance and derive important concepts like flight [...]

Flight Mechanics - Anemobarometry (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Flight Mechanics - Anemobarometry (Coursera)
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This course focuses on the physics of the atmosphere and its consequences on speed and altitude measurements. At the end of this course, you will understand precisely the meaning of the speed and altitude indication available to the pilot of an airplane. You will understand the difference between standard [...]

Flight mechanics - Lift and trajectory (Coursera)

May 20th 2024
Flight mechanics - Lift and trajectory (Coursera)
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In this course, you will understand the influence of the angle of attack and speed on the lift. Then we will focus on hazards and limitations, like stall, spiral dive, or flutter. You will understand why stall phenomenon and Mach number limit the maximum lift and altitude the airplane [...]
May 20th 2024
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43.00 EUR/month

Flight mechanics - The basis (Coursera)

May 6th 2024
Flight mechanics - The basis (Coursera)
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More than one century after the Wright brothers' first flight, the flight still defy our intuition. You will learn here how to name the different parts of the airplane and how to describe and quantify its geometry. For that, we need now to share a precise vocabulary to describe [...]