Introduction: Vehicle classifications, system engineering, design stages,requirement, and tradeoffs, mission profiles, the design team fixed and rotary wings.Power and performance of aircraft: power available and power required, power andinduced velocity, minimum power to lift ratio, specific power, power and speed.Aerodynamics: aircraft polar, characteristic points of aircraft polar, drag break down,advanced drag estimation approach. Weight estimation: weight break down, advancedweight estimation, component weight formulae, wing loading, thrust loading. Range:Range formula, optimization of range parameter, tradeoffs and sensitivity analysis.Aircraft costs: research costs, design costs, production costs, direct and indirectoperating costs. Supersonic aircraft design: Determination of Design parameters:mission profile, performance requirement, configuration development, drag estimation,thrust loading and wing loading determination , Weight estimation, Sizing iteration ,Determination of drag components, Lift components, Weights and thrust.
