FLIGHT MECHANICS

This training gives an overview of applied flight mechanics for flight testing. It is proposed through blended learning, a series of lectures delivered with tutored distant learning, through many vid…

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 fun…

More than one century after Wright brothers first fly, flight still defy out intuition. You will learn here how planes do fly, how pilots can control their trajectory, and what happens if they fly to…

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 alt…

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…

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 alt…

Cela fait à peine plus d’un siècle que les avions volent. Et, de fait, le vol défie souvent l’intuition de l’animal terrestre que nous sommes. Comment vole un avion et comment éviter qu’il échappe au…