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Aircraft Takeoff Performance

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Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering ((ISCA,volume 91))

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The primary focus of this chapter is to discuss the takeoff performance of fixed-wing aircraft.

When everything seems to be against you... ...remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

— Henry Ford

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, D. F. Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, DU Unmanned Systems Research Institute, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Konstantinos Kanistras & Kimon P. Valavanis

  2. Department of Computer Science, D. F. Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, DU Unmanned Systems Research Institute, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Matthew J. Rutherford

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  1. Konstantinos Kanistras
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Kanistras, K., Valavanis, K.P., Rutherford, M.J. (2018). Aircraft Takeoff Performance. In: Foundations of Circulation Control Based Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 91. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67852-8_10

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