Articles
These articles supplement our courses or can be read as a stand-alone resource. Some of these articles help you prepare for our courses ahead of time, others cover miscellaneous topics of general interest. More articles will be added as time allows.
Mathematics Background
If you need to catch up on some mathematics or are just curious, these articles may be useful. They are not a prerequisite for most of our courses or for the articles linked on this page, but you will find it useful to review at least parts of them before taking some of our advanced classes on flight dynamics and flight testing.
- Linear Algebra Primer
- Linear Ordinary Differential Equations Primer
- Multivariable Differential and Integral Calculus Primer
- Complex Analysis Primer (theory of functions of a complex variable)
Flight Dynamics Fundamentals
You may need some of these articles for our more advanced, technical ground school classes.
- Reference Frames (Axis Systems)
- Aircraft Attitude and Euler Angles (brief, most basic introduction)
- 6 Popular Rotation Formalisms in Kinematics (a more formal expansion on the previous brief aircraft attitude intro)
- Differential Equations for Rigid Aircraft Flight Dynamics (Equations of Motion): Derivation, Discussion, and Numerical Solution
Aerodynamics Fundamentals
2D Aerodynamics
- Circulation (coming soon, for now go to the article on Wikipedia)
- Kutta-Joukowski Theorem (coming soon, for now go to the article on Wikipedia)
- Kutta Condition (coming soon, for now go to the article on Wikipedia)
- Thin Airfoil Theory (coming soon, for now go to the article on Wikipedia)
3D Aerodynamics
- Lifting-Line Theory (coming soon, for now go to the article on Wikipedia)
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous articles covering a variety of topics of interest to pilots.