Steady flight

Steady flight

Straight-level flight

Published in Mohammad H. Sadraey, Aircraft Performance, 2017

In this section, the technique to calculate the absolute ceiling of an aircraft with a piston-prop engine is presented. In a straight-level steady flight, the thrust is equal to drag: () T=D

Normal and extreme aircraft accelerations and the effects on exposure to expiratory airborne contaminant inside commercial aircraft cabins

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Published in Science and Technology for the Built Environment, 2020

Hossam A. Elmaghraby, Yi Wai Chiang, Amir A. Aliabadi

The articles (Elmaghraby, Chiang, and Aliabadi 2019a, 2019b) used an analytical method based on Newton’s second law to estimate commercial aircraft accelerations during climb and descent legs for a Boeing 767 passenger aircraft. Those acceleration values were further used to investigate the effects on exposure to expiratory airborne contaminant inside commercial aircraft cabins. It was found that due to acceleration-induced body forces the exposure ratios could more than double during the climb leg compared to steady flight conditions.

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