e-Library Additions
Books
If you need more detailed information designed to brush-up your skills and boost your professional development, try our e-books library.
Our fully flexible online collection allows Society members to search for information and concepts across over 250 books and, once you have found what you need, you can download separate chapters or even individual diagrams. You can download the entire book for 24 hours and even do things that you should not do in a library book, such as highlight text and write notes, which will then be saved to your account.
If you cannot find what you are looking for in our e-library, or you prefer the feel of paper in your hands, you can also use the NAL library catalogue to select from over 1,000 of the most recent aerospace textbooks to borrow by post or to read at the NAL in Farnborough. As well as books designed to help all aerospace professionals, we have masses of material that would satisfy every aero enthusiast.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Smart Cities by Fadi AlTurjman, 2020.
This book addresses the major challenges in realising UAVs in IoT-based Smart Cities. The challenges tackled vary from cost and energy efficiency to availability and service quality.
Aviation Law and Drones: Unmanned Aircraft and the Future of Aviation by D Hodgkinson and R Johnston, 2018.
This book traces the development of aviation laws and regulations, explains how aviation is regulated at an international and national level, considers the interrelationship between rapidly advancing technology and legislative attempts to keep pace, and reviews existing domestic and international drone laws and issues.
Optimizing Small MultiRotor Unmanned Aircraft: A Practical Design Guide by S D Prior, 2018.
This design guide was written to capture the author’s practical experience of designing, building and testing multi-rotor drone systems over the past decade.
Advanced UAV Aerodynamics, Flight Stability and Control: Novel Concepts, Theory and Applications edited by P Marques and A Da Ronch, 2017.
Leading scientists, researchers and inventors describe the findings and innovations accomplished in research programmes and industry applications throughout the world.
Small Unmanned FixedWing Aircraft Design: A Practical Approach by A J Keane, A Sobester and J P Scanlan, 2017.
A guide to designing, building and testing fixed-wing UAVs and is based on the first-hand experiences of the UAV team at the University of Southampton. The book covers both the practical aspects of designing, manufacturing and flight testing and outlines the essential calculations needed to underpin successful designs.
Unmanned Aircraft Design: A Review of Fundamentals by M H Sadraey, 2017.
This book provides fundamental principles, design procedures, and design tools for unmanned aerial vehicles with three sections focusing on vehicle design, autopilot design, and ground system design.
Unmanned aircraft systems by E Atkins, A Ollero and A Tsourdos, 2016.
Covers the design, development, operation and mission profiles of unmanned aircraft systems. Nonlinear Control of Robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Integrated Approach by R Vepa.
Presents control and regulation methods that rely upon feedback linearization techniques.
Fundamentals of Aviation Operations by Gert Meijer, 2020.
A guide to how the commercial aviation sector is structured and how technological, economic and political forces define its development and the prosperity of its players. This book covers all relevant aspects of aviation operations, including contemporary challenges, like capacity constraints and sustainability.
Airline Economics in Europe by Kevin Cullinane, 2019.
A look at the multifaceted analysis of the air industry in Europe, how it has developed in recent years, and how it is set to develop further into the future.
Foundations of Airline Finance: Methodology and Practice by Bijan Vasigh and Zane C Rowe, 3rd edition, 2019.
Provides an introduction to the basics of finance – including time value of money, the valuation of assets, and revenue management – and the particular intricacies of airline finance where there can be wild fluctuations in both revenues and costs.
The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets by H Tennekes, Revised edition, 2009.
An investigation into how machines and living creatures fly, and of the similarities between butterflies and Boeings, paper airplanes and plovers. PILOT SELECTION Pilot Selection: Psychological Principles and Practice, edited by R Bor, C Eriksen, T P Hubbard and R King, 2019.
Air Traffic Management: Economics, Regulation and Governance by M Arblaster, 2018.
Insights on approaches and issues surrounding the economic regulation and governance of air traffic management.
Aircraft Engineering Principles by L Dingle and M Tooley, 2nd edition, 2013.
Aircraft Design of WWII: A Sketchbook by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 2020.
A treasure trove of cutaway views of 1940’s aircraft, featuring art from the top magazines of the era including Aeroplane, Flight and Aviation Week.
Royal Flying Corps Handbook 1914-1918 by P G Cooksley, 2013. Target London: Bombing the Capital 1915-2005 by Peter Reese, 2011.
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during WW1, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, and this history of 20thcentury attacks explores the subject as a whole.
The Airplane: A History of its Technology by J D Anderson, 2002.
A history of the technical development of the aeroplane. In each chronological period covered, the various aspects of the synthesis of aerodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, and structure is described and evaluated.
Engineering Science: For Foundation Degree and Higher National by M Tooley and L Dingle, 2020.
Covers the mechanics of materials, dynamics, thermodynamics, electrostatics and electromagnetic principles, and ac/dc circuit theory. Manual of engineering drawing: British and international standards by C H Simmons, D E Maguire and Neil Phelps, 5th edition, 2020.
Engineering Ethics by Charles Fleddermann, 4th edition, 2014.
Serves as both a textbook and a resource for the study of engineering ethics. It is written to help future engineers be prepared for confronting and resolving ethical dilemmas that they might encounter during their professional careers.
Engineering analysis with ANSYS software by Y Nakasone, Tadeusz Stolarski and S Yoshimoto, 2006.
An introduction to all of the fundamental areas of engineering analysis which will help readers to get up to speed fast with the use of ANSYS software in working life. Engineering economy by Elin M Wicks and C Patrick Koelling, 17th global edition, 2019.
Modern Engineering Mathematics by Glyn James and Phil Dyke, 6th edition, 2020. Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics by G James, David Burley, D Clements, Phil Dyke and Nigel Steele, 2018.
Engineered Repairs of Composite Structures by R B Heslehurst, 2019.
Provides a detailed discussion, analysis, and procedures for effective and efficient repair design of advanced composite structures.