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Home Courses Sustainable Aviation: The Route to Climate-Neutral Aviation Course materials Lectures 2.2.1 Lecture 2C: Aircraft Performance

2.2.1 Lecture 2C: Aircraft Performance

Course subject(s) Module 2: How do Aircraft Fly?

Lecture 2C: Aircraft Performance

If there’s one thing Aerospace Engineers love more than making things fly, it is making things fly in the best possible way!

In this lecture, Ir. Melkert, a senior lecturer of our faculty, will explain how we can optimize the performance of an aircraft to use it as efficiently as possible.

If you are a more mathematically-inclined learner, make sure to also watch the optional extra content below the lecture video!

Optional: Determination of the optimal L/D

In the lecture, Mr. Melkert has explained that we should be flying at the optimal lift-to-drag ratio to fly as efficiently as possible. You are undoubtedly wondering how we find this optimum point. Well, luckily we do not need any complicated setups for this: With some mathematical manipulation we can quickly find the optimal value from what we have learned so far. Join Mr. Melkert in this optional mathematical intermezzo to find out how.

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