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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13
EAN num: 9780071363778
ISBN number: 0071363777
Label: McGraw-Hill Professional
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: December 06, 2000
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional
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The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: those who fly. Debunks long-rooted misconceptions and offers a clear, minimal-math presentation that starts with how airplanes fly and goes on to clarify a diverse range of topics, such as design, propulsion, performance, high-speed flight, and flight testing. Not-to-be missed insights for pilots, instructors, flight students, aeronautical engineering students, and flight enthusiasts.
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A book easy to read and with very simple explanations of basic concepts of flying. It covers most aspects of flying fron a Physics point of view, without any math or equations. It explains also what decisions have to be taken by aircraft designers in developing planes.
A good introductions to the art of flying.
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I always was very interested in flight and aerodynamics but never really had the chance to read a book that gave me a clear understanding of the principles that are involved in it.
Understanding Flight is a great introduction for everyone who is interested in this field. It provides a lot of useful information and explains the phenomenon of flight in a easy way. The good thing about this book is, that someone who reads it does not need any kind of pre-knowledge in order to understand it. It explains everything necessary to know from the basics up to more sophisticated topics.
All together, this is really a very good and interesting book, which I recommend to everyone who is interested or involved in flight.
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This book does an outstanding job of explaining the basics of flight: how and why planes fly, what matters in wing design, how propellers work, how jet engines work. It does this with no math, and some good clear use of Newton's 3 laws.
This would be a good introduction to aerodynamics even for engineers. My only complaint is that the section on supersonic flight is not as good as the earlier parts of the book.
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For a pilot that was tought aerodynamics based in Bernoulli theories, this is a total change of the old paradigm. It explain the concepts in very simple words. Every one can understand the Coanda Effect and its importance in aerodynamics.
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As a life long pilot and college professor of aviation, I have long been aggrevated by the one sided nature of aerodynamic discussions. While not perfect, it does go into great detail about "Newtonian" lift. However, the authors' dismissal of Bernoulli is somewhat inappropriate and premature. Bernoulli's work can be derived from Newton's. In fact, Bernoulli used Newton's works in order to discover his equation that is commonly cited to describe lift. In short, you can't dismiss Newton when trying to understand Bernoulli and vice-versa.
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