- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071363777
- ISBN-13: 978-0071363778
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 701,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A short section of this work was published in article form in "Sport Aviation" magazine in February 1999. NASA picked up the article for their web site; it is used in several flight schools; and, has been translated into French and Spanish. Further, a New Zealand high school student won his science fair using Anderson's and Eberhardt's work. Wendell Piepgrass, Flight Training Coordinator (flight school): "Not being an engineer, I appreciate very much what you...are doing here, because being able to form visually based concepts is important...." "...this presentation...effectively and clearly puts a very complex subject into terms most persons with a technical interest can understand. I wish...this chapter were a prime requirement for airman certification.
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Explaining (most of) aeronautics in simple, intuitive terms, Understanding Flight limits the mathematics and derives the most important relationships of aeronautics in a presentation that will draw the interest, appreciation and admiration of the aviation community. Key Features: * Provides keen grasp of physical flight * Explains diverse aspects such as wing design, propulsion, and high-speed flight * Tells how airplanes are constructed and perform
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an aspiring aerospace engineer, I wanted to find out about the principles of flight as they are not covered in school. "Understanding Flight" explains the physics behind this phenomenon in a way that is really easy to understand, without being over-simplified. What I particularly liked about this book was that it didn't bother with any mathematical equations, and there were also plenty of diagrams, graphs and pictures to illustrate what was being explained. The only downside to the book was that these diagrams tended to be on a different page to the relevent paragraph.
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I've loved reading the book. Even though I don't have a math background as strong as engineers, Ive been able to get the most out of this book. On the contrary of other texts, it's not plenty of formulas and stuff like that that makes you feel dizzy, yet it invokes physics principles and laws.
Clearly not a text fomr someone who's gonna design aircrafts, but a perfect text for whoever is curious to know about flight.
Clearly not a text fomr someone who's gonna design aircrafts, but a perfect text for whoever is curious to know about flight.
Format:Paperback
The first thing to say about this book is get the 2nd or later edition. I contacted the author who is approachable and friendly, but he agrees that the later editions are improvements. The main area that caused me to contact him was a confusion between the Koanda effect and viscocity and, as a student of the subject and therefore still researching, it would appear that the Koanda effect does not occur naturally (i.e. without additional aid)and this issue is dealt with in later editions. The book deliberately avoids complex maths and uses prose to get the message across which is that Bernoulli's theroem is not the cause of lift, but the more plausible downwash of air from a wing moving with angle of attack in an airstream. He employs the equal and opposite reaction of Newton's 3rd Law of Motion, which after all must be the primary mover in propellers, turbojets and props and helicopters, all of which employ aerodynamics similar to that of the wing. It may be that Bernoulli's theroem does apply primarily as other authors agree, but for me the simple explanation is the one I have adopted. The book isn't complex and covers a wide range of subjects in digestible lumps, with drawings and photos to amplify. It is a good read and you feel a sense that the author is talking to you and is not remote or superior. However it would need to be supplemented for serious study with books that go deeper into the subject and from authors that have different views on how these things work. As such it is a basic introduction and I can recommend it with the proviso that serious students read as many different books on this complex subject in order to get a balanced view of what is really happening around an aeroplane's wing. The book doesn't always stay open at a selected page when placed on a desk, which is frustrating and due to it's relatively cheap manufacture, compared to other books by this publisher..
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