The document summarizes an Aerospace Vehicle Performance professional short course offered by White Eagle Aerospace. The 4-day course provides instruction on basic aircraft performance principles, with an emphasis on applying historical lessons. Participants receive course materials and can apply what they learn to estimate the performance of various aircraft and missions. The instructor, John Terry White, has over 35 years of aerospace engineering experience. The $1,600 fee includes lectures, homework solutions, and an aircraft performance textbook.

1. Aerospace Vehicle Performance
Professional Short Course
Course Brochure
January 2011 Update
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2. Aerospace Vehicle Performance
Fellow Aerospace Professional,
Thank you for your interest in White Eagle Aerospace! We are pleased
to present you with this brochure which describes our outstanding
Aerospace Vehicle Performance (AVP) professional short course. AVP
provides you with a high‐quality training experience in basic aircraft
performance. In addition, AVP places a special emphasis on the history of
flight and the application of historical lessons‐learned.
Each AVP participant receives a text book, a bound set of course
lectures, and a CD‐ROM containing course notes, homework solutions, and
technical references.
I invite you to personally examine this brochure and learn more about
the Aerospace Vehicle Performance (AVP) professional short course. Then
visit our web site at www.WhiteEagleAerospace.com or contact us by e‐mail
or telephone find out about the date and location of our next AVP offering.
Enroll today and let White Eagle Aerospace help Make Your Career Soar!
Best Regards,
John Terry White, President/CEO
White Eagle Aerospace, LLC
Training@WhiteEagleAerospace.com
520‐219‐0526 Office
520‐390‐9157 Mobile
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Target Audience
The target audience for the Aerospace Vehicle Performance (AVP) short
course includes anyone who is seeking a basic knowledge of flight vehicle
performance prinicples. This knowledge and its application is fundamental to
successful flight vehicle performance estimation, mission planning, and
aircraft design synthesis. Whether you are a practicing engineer, technical
analyst, or program manager, AVP will enhance your understanding of and
help to improve your competency in this important discipline. Among those
who will benefit from attending the AVP short course are:
aerodynamics engineers air transport operators
flight test engineers airline technical personnel
propulsion engineers operations research analysts
performance engineers mission planning specialists
aircraft systems engineers aircraft flight crew
missile systems engineers program managers
Questions Regarding the AVP Course?
Contact WEA at 520‐219‐0526 or Training@WhiteEagleAerospace.com
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What You Will Learn
The Aerospace Vehicle Performance (AVP) short course will provide you with
a thorough training experience in the fundamentals of propeller‐driven and
jet‐propelled aircraft flight performance. You will learn how the basic driving
forces of thrust, lift, drag, and weight profoundly affect aircraft range,
endurance, maximum climb rate, and load factor capability as functions of
Mach number and altitude. You will come to understand and apply the
powerful prinicples of Energy Maneuverability in planning aircraft minimum
time‐to‐climb and minimum fuel‐to‐climb schedules. You will also acquire
the knowledge and skills to accurately estimate aircraft take‐off and landing
performance. With these and other simple tools, you will be able to estimate
the performance of a wide variety of general aviation, commercial, military,
and special purpose aircraft missions. AVP subject matter includes:
The Aircraft Drag Polar Horizontal Turning Flight
Prop‐Driven Propulsion Vertical Turning Flight
Turbojet Propulsion V‐η Diagram
Turbofan Propulsion Range
Thrust‐Required Endurance
Power‐Required Energy Management
Thrust‐Available Take‐Off Performance
Power‐Available Landing Performance
Steady, Level Flight Atmospheric Properties
Rate‐of‐Climb Air Data Parameters
Gliding Flight Aviation History
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Aviation History
Much has transpired during the 100‐plus years of powered flight. We are
both the beneficiaries and stewards of the technological progress that
previous generations have bequeathed to us. However, the truth is that a
great many in today’s aerospace workforce have little knowledge of the key
people, events, and innovations that comprise the history of their own
profession. While we cannot live in the past, we must learn from it if we
are to be successful now and in the future. Further, like our predecessors,
we must protect and preserve this legacy knowledge for succeeding
generations. It is for these reasons that White Eagle Aerospace, LLC strongly
emphasizes aerospace history in the technical courses that it offers. This is
done through the mediums of special presentations, videos, and field trips.
Aircraft addressed in the Aerospace Vehicle Performance course include:
F‐86 Sabre
A‐5 Vigilante
F‐80 Shooting Star
F‐84 Thunderjet
F‐105 Thunderchief
BD‐5J Acrostar
B‐52 Stratofortress
B‐47 Stratojet
P‐51 Mustang
B‐29 Superfortress
B‐17 Flying Fortress
North American F‐107
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Your Instructor
John Terry White is your instructor for all Terry’s teaching credentials include 15
White Eagle Aerospace short courses. years on the faculty of the Aerospace
His 35 years of professional aerospace Department of the California State
engineering experience includes the Polytechnic University, Pomona and 15
NASA Space Shuttle, NASA X‐43A, and years as a technical instructor for
United States Navy STANDARD Missile Hughes, Raytheon, Society of Flight
Programs. During his extensive career, Test Engineers and WEA. Terry has
Terry has served on the engineering lectured extensively on the history of
technical staff of Rockwell International, flight for key technical organizations
General Dynamics Corporation, Hughes such as the USAF Test Pilot School,
Missile Systems Company, NASA Dryden NASA, AIAA, SETP, academia and
Flight Research Center, and Raytheon industry. He has also authored more
Missile Systems. He most recently than 180 technical papers on a variety
completed a 2‐year tour as manager of of aerodynamics and flight science
the Aerodynamics Department in the subjects. His professional affiliations
Guidance, Navigation and Control Center include the AIAA, SFTE, ITEA, NAA,
at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, SAE, AAHS, FTHF, and NSS.
Arizona. In this capacity, Terry was
responsible for all aerodynamics work
performed at the world’s largest tactical
missile producer. Terry is now President
and CEO of White Eagle Aerospace, LLC,
located in Oro Valley, Arizona. WEA is a
leading provider of consulting, training,
history of flight lectures, and technical
publications to the American aerospace
community.
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Key Information at a Glance
Duration 4 Days; 32 instructional hours
Text “Aircraft Performance and Design”
McGraw‐Hill Publishers, 1999.
John D. Anderson, Jr.
Materials Lectures and Homework Solutions
in Bound Form and on CD‐ROM
Instructor John Terry White, President/CEO
White Eagle Aerospace, LLC
Oro Valley, Arizona
Course Fee Single‐Seat; $1,600
Please Contact Us For Group Pricing
Web Site www.WhiteEagleAerospace.com
Contact Info Training@WhiteEagleAerospace.com
520‐219‐0526
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