Aeronautical Engineers' Data Book

Aeronautical Engineer’s Data Book Clifford Matthews BSc, CEng, MBA, FIMechE OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Butterworth-Heineman Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First published 2002 © Clifford Matthews 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Matthews, Clifford Aeronautical engineer’s data book 1. Aerospace engineering–Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title 629.1’3 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Matthews, Clifford. Aeronautical engineer’s data book / Clifford Matthews. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0 7506 5125 3 1. Aeronautics–Handbooks, Manuals, etc. I. Title. TL570.M34 2001 629.13'002'12–dc21 2001037429 ISBN 0 7506 5125 3 Composition by Scribe Design, Gillingham, Kent, UK Printed and bound by A. Rowe Ltd, Chippenh