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.
Description Back Cover :
Get to the heart of how planes fly.
Never before
has it been so easy to grasp how planes fly!
Of keen importance to pilots, essential to engineers, and intriguing
even to the earthbound, the principles of flight are often parroted
but widely misunderstood. Now you can be among those who truly
get it.
The simplest way to master
an understanding of the science of flight.
This enlightening
book helps you bypass common distortions, misconceptions, and
half-truths and genuinely understand how aeronautics works.
This
book gives you brain- and gut-level understanding of what gets
you up there and keeps you up there! - Explains
flight in simple, intuitive terms.
- Spares
you misinformation and confusion—this book gets it right
and tells it right.
- 100 high-impact
illustrations show you lift, propulsion, and design at work
- Provides
practical insights pilots can use for improved performance
and safety.
- Demonstrates
the why’s and how’s of wing shape, plane construction,
flight testing, and high-speed flight.
- Written
by pilots (one a physicist and the other a professor of aeronautics).
Perfect
for beginning pilots.
Table Of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. How Airplanes Fly
3. Wings
4. Airplane Propulsion
5. High-Speed Flight
6. Performance
7. Flight Testing
8. The Rest of the Airplane
9. Appendices
Author Biography
David F.
Anderson is a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
and a private pilot. Scott Eberhardt
is an associate professor in the department of aeronautics and
astronautics at the University of Washington. He is also the
director of the Kirsten Wind Tunnel and a private pilot. |
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