本期刊通过散发原始档案文件，介绍飞机的重大进展、飞机的操作和飞机技术在其他领域的应用，致力于促进空中飞行的应用科学和技术。刊物刊登有关飞机系统、航空运输、航空交通管理、飞机多学科设计优化、飞行力学、飞行及地面测试、应用计算流体力学、飞行安全、天气及噪音危害、人为因素、机场设计等的合资格论文；航空业务、计算机在飞机上的应用，包括人工智能/专家系统、生产方法、工程经济分析、可负担性、可靠性、可维护性和后勤支助、将推进和控制系统纳入飞机设计和操作、飞机空气动力学（包括非定常空气动力学）、结构设计/动力学、气动弹性和气动声学。它出版关于通用航空、军用和民用飞机、无人机、短距短距和短距短距、亚音速、超音速、跨音速和高超音速飞机的论文。本文主要探讨了飞机技术应用方面近期技术工作的综合调查结果。
This Journal is devoted to the advancement of the applied science and technology of airborne flight through the dissemination of original archival papers describing significant advances in aircraft, the operation of aircraft, and applications of aircraft technology to other fields. The Journal publishes qualified papers on aircraft systems, air transportation, air traffic management, and multidisciplinary design optimization of aircraft, flight mechanics, flight and ground testing, applied computational fluid dynamics, flight safety, weather and noise hazards, human factors, airport design, airline operations, application of computers to aircraft including artificial intelligence/expert systems, production methods, engineering economic analyses, affordability, reliability, maintainability, and logistics support, integration of propulsion and control systems into aircraft design and operations, aircraft aerodynamics (including unsteady aerodynamics), structural design/dynamics , aeroelasticity, and aeroacoustics. It publishes papers on general aviation, military and civilian aircraft, UAV, STOL and V/STOL, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, and hypersonic aircraft. Papers are sought which comprehensively survey results of recent technical work with emphasis on aircraft technology application.
