Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics: Performance, Static Stability, Dynamic Stability, and Classical Feedback Control

Appendix B: Properties of the U.S. Standard Atmosphere

In this appendix the properties of the 1962 U.S. Standard Atmosphere are tabulated in accordance with Eqs. (1.5 1.17) and (1.21 1.22) of Chapter 1. Two tables are given: Table B1 in English units and Table B2 in Metric units.

Table B.1: U.S. Standard atmosphere in English units

Altitude

Temperature

Temperature ratio

Pressure

Pressure ratio

Density

Density ratio

Coefficient of viscosity

Speed of sound

h, ft

T, R

?

P, psf

?

?

a, ft/s

0

518.7

1.000

2116

1.000

2.377

1.000

3.737

1,116.4

1,000

515.1

0.9932

2041

0.9644

2.3081

0.97106

3.717

1,112.6

2,000

511.5

0.9863

1963

0.9298

2.2409

0.94277

3.697

1,108.7

3,000

508.0

0.9794

1879

0.8962

2.1751

0.91512

3.677

1,104.0

4,000

504.4

0.9725

1828

0.8637

2.1109

0.88809

3.657

1,101.0

5,000

500.8

0.9657

1761

0.8320

2.0481

0.86167

3.636

1,097.1

6,000

497.3

0.9588

1696

0.8014

1.9868

0.83586

3.616

1,093.2

7,000

493.7

0.9519

1633

0.7716

1.9268

0.81064

3.596

1,089.2

8,000

490.1

0.9459

1572

0.7428

1.8683

0.78602

3.575

1,085.3

9,000

486.6

0.9382

1513

0.7148

1.8111

0.76196

3.555

1,081.4

10,000

483.0

0.9313

1456

0.6877

1.7533

0.73848

3.534

1,077.4

11,000

479.4

0.9244

1400

0.6614

1.7008

0.71555

3.513

1,073.4

12,000

475.9

0.9175

1345

0.6360

1.6476

0.69317

3.493

1,069.4

13,000

472.3

0.9107

1293

0.6113

1.5957

0.67133

3.472

1,065.4

14,000

468.7

0.9038

1243

0.5857

1.5451

0.65003

3.451

1,061.4

15,000

465.2

0.8969

1194

0.5643

1.4956

0.62924

3.430

1,057.3

16,000

461.6

0.8900

1147

0.5420

1.4474

0.60896

3.409

1,053.2

17,000

458.0

0.8831

1101

0.5203

1.4004

0.58919

3.388

1,049.2

18,000

454.5

0.8763

1057

0.4994

1.3546

0.56991

3.366

1,045.1

19,000

450.9

0.8694

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