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This is the benchmark portable manual since 1952. It is revised and updated for the 21st Century. The definitive nuts-and-bolts manual for all-metal aircraft, from Cessna 150s to Boeing 747s, this newly revised and updated classic gives mechanics and technicians clear, step-by-step, fully illustrated procedures for all standard aircraft tasks.The Sixth Edition of this bestseller features coordinated step-by-step procedures, methods, and techniques - including those used by Lockheed and Rockwell Boeing. It details basic shop practices such as drilling and riveting. It shows you how to install electrical wiring and plumbing. It gives clear directions for nondestructive testing, corrosion prevention and control, and other vital tasks. It fully demonstrates forming and fabricating, and covers materials and materials handling, and more! The "Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians" is the one all-metal-aircraft source that you'll turn to again and again, for projects large and small.
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The Benchmark Portable Manual Since 1952 - Revised And Updated for the 21st Century.
The definitive nuts-and-bolts manual for all-metal aircraft, from Cessna 150s to Boeing 747s, this newly revised and updated classic gives mechanics and technicians clear, step-by-step, fully illustrated procedures for all standard aircraft tasks.
The Sixth Edition of this bestseller:
Features coordinated step-by-step procedures, methods, and techniques - including those used by Lockheed and Rockwell Boeing
Details basic shop practices such as drilling and riveting
Shows you how to install electrical wiring and plumbing
Gives clear directions for nondestructive testing, corrosion prevention and control, and other vital tasks
Fully demonstrates forming and fabricating
Covers materials and materials handling
And more!
The Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians is the one all-metal-aircraft source that you'll turn to again and again, for projects large and small.
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Many aircraft configurations have been built, such as flying wing, tailless, canard, and biplane, however, the basic airplane configuration consists of a monoplane with a fuselage and tail assembly. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Many aircraft configurations have been built, such as flying wing, tailless, canard, and biplane, however, the basic airplane configuration consists of a monoplane with a fuselage and tail assembly. Read the first page
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book just as a reference point for my upcoming assignments I have. Just for the record I am currently a fully qualified engineer at Airbus.
The book itself is good, and the content is correct, however there are some major flaws that I believe need rectifying to make this book correct to date.
The first major problem I have found with this book, is that unless you work for, or working with an American aircraft, this book is little good. All the references, dimensions, terminology etc is American and there is no English equivilant anywhere throughout the book. For example...if you were working on an Airbus aircraft this book would be very little help to you.
The second major down point to the book is its position in the aerospace world today. The book was revised in 1999, so all the content is pretty much out of date. Materials, processes, proceedures and aircraft are all out of date. A new revision needs to be made, containing international standards, dimensions and terminology, new materials, international references and updated aircraft such as the A380 and B787.
The final major flaw with this book is the quality of the diagrams and illustrations. They are pretty poor to be honest and would never be accepted in the aerospace industry to reference from. The ink looks something that would have been written/drawn and published on an 18th centuary newspaper.
With all that above taken into account for, the book would be ideal for AMERICAN college students at a lower qualification level. With the flaws taken care of above I'm sure this book would be excellent.
The book itself is good, and the content is correct, however there are some major flaws that I believe need rectifying to make this book correct to date.
The first major problem I have found with this book, is that unless you work for, or working with an American aircraft, this book is little good. All the references, dimensions, terminology etc is American and there is no English equivilant anywhere throughout the book. For example...if you were working on an Airbus aircraft this book would be very little help to you.
The second major down point to the book is its position in the aerospace world today. The book was revised in 1999, so all the content is pretty much out of date. Materials, processes, proceedures and aircraft are all out of date. A new revision needs to be made, containing international standards, dimensions and terminology, new materials, international references and updated aircraft such as the A380 and B787.
The final major flaw with this book is the quality of the diagrams and illustrations. They are pretty poor to be honest and would never be accepted in the aerospace industry to reference from. The ink looks something that would have been written/drawn and published on an 18th centuary newspaper.
With all that above taken into account for, the book would be ideal for AMERICAN college students at a lower qualification level. With the flaws taken care of above I'm sure this book would be excellent.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Waste of money
25 Sep 2001
Format:Paperback
I have an A&P license and bought this book for my son. It is a good example of quality sacrificed to feed someone's bottom line. Illustrations and figures in this book are of such poor quality that they appear to have been reduced on a copy machine, causing important details to disappear into blotches of ink. Reference tables have been reduced to the point where they are unreadable without a magnifying glass. There is no section on welding. If this is the only reference handbook on the market, then you're stuck with it -- but I sent mine back. Don't buy it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Standard aircraft handbook...a must have for acft mechanics
24 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
This is an outstanding reference book that should be considered a must have for all aircraft mechanics. I have a couple...tons of outstanding reference diagrams, etc. Get a couple...one for the tool box and one to keep in the house
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians
11 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is a good basic treatise that capsulizes the three rather voluminous documents put out for the FAA administrered AMT work.
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