Aircraft and rotorcraft system identification; engineering methods with flight-test examples.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Aircraft and rotorcraft system identification; engineering methods with flight-test examples.

Tischler, Mark B. and Robert K. Remple.

Am. Inst. of Aero. & Astro.

2006

523 pages

$119.95

Hardcover

AIAA education series

TL714

The opening chapters of this textbook present the frequency-response method for system identification and comprehensive identification f...

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