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This is an essential handy guide containing useful up to date information regularly needed by the student or practising engineer.

Covering all aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides quick access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of information for further in-depth information.



Quick reference to essential data

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Curate's egg
Tables are useful, but some aerodynamic content is doubtful. In particular the 'explanation' of how a wing generates lift is plain wrong. ... Read more

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Topics discussed include: new vision for future aerospace vehicles and systems, engineering mathematics, units, symbols, and constants, and physical and chemical constants. Covers SI units. ... Read more

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A Single Reference Source for All Areas
This is a handbook in which the working (or student) aetonautical/astronautical engineer will find the constants, mathematics, theories and practice of the various sub-fields of his profession.

These include:
Mathematics Mechanical Engineering: Statics, Vibration, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer
Computing: Microprocessors, Instrumentation and Control
Aerospace Structures
Aerodynamics: Performance, Stability, Control
Avionics and Astrionics
Aeronautical Design
Spacecraft
Earth's Environment and Space
Aircraft Safety
Aircraft Maintenance

Rather than a textbook on any of these subsidiary subjects, this handbook is intended to serve as a reference book, a refresher if you will, so that the working engineer with a problem has one source to use to answer virtually any problem he is likely to encounter.

Mark Davies is listed as the Editor in Charge. Under him are three solid pages of contributors from literally around the world. They come from universities, government laboratories, industry and private consultancies. AC ... Read more

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Excellent overview of a (sort of) secret time in America's history.
Informative, with a healthy dash of humor.This is no dry, historical recounting.And, of course, it's educational to be allowed behind the scientific communities' curtain...

A Tale Well Told
Very interesting and entertaining set of career experiences as told by one of the greatest engineer's ever. Probably not for everyone, but anyone who has been a part of the Aerospace industry would enjoy the telling of Dr. Bob's career. Well writen, articulate and informative. I purchased four more copies for gifts to young engineers that might write something similar in 50 or so years.

An engaging chronicle of deadly weapons, technological marvels, and the quirky human personalities
Written by engineer, educator, and arms race/spacecraft design pioneer Dr. Robert F. Brodsky, On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer and Space Ages is a collection of true tales of the author's professional experiences. Active in the atomic and space race from 1950 to 1988, and not really retired up to even the present day, Brodsky gives an insider's view of everything from the creation and fixing of the first externally carried A-Bomb (the Mark 7) to the inception of the Space Age to how astronautics became an accredited curriculum to Brodsky's visions of a hydrogen-fuel based economy in the future. An engaging chronicle of deadly weapons, technological marvels, and the quirky human personalities behind the military and space age science that transformed the modern world, accessible to readers of all backgrounds and highly recommended.

a notable pioneer
The book is a collection of anecdotes and snippets from Brodsky's long professional life, commencing during World War 2 and proceeding past the end of the Cold War. He gives an insider's look at what it was like to work in the American defense industry. Notably the aerospace milieu of southern California. But also in the nuclear weapons program at Sandia, New Mexico. Having worked briefly at Los Alamos, but decades after he was at Sandia, his accounts brought back fond memories of New Mexico.

He was also involved in some of the earlier postwar uses of computers. Like programming ENIAC for the first Computational Fluid Dynamics calculations. A total dinosaur of a machine by current standards. But truly cutting edge at the time.

There is a brief mention of wind tunnel tests he did in Pasadena, Los Angeles. How times change. That wind tunnel building is now the south campus of the Arts Center College of Design. I was there recently for a reception. Few of the current students appreciate the history of that building, and its crucial contributions to the US war effort during World War 2, and later in the Cold War. ... Read more

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Just after World War I Bert Brown served his engineering apprenticeship at The Eastleigh Railway Works. Afterwards he and three friends joined Saunders refurbishing bombers for the RAF on the Isle of Wight. Later Bert moved to Supermarine to work with R. Mitchell to build the S6, S6A and S6B Schneider Trophy winning floatplanes. Then he went to Short Brothers at Rochester as Chief Inspector of Flying Boats until the war started. In 1940 Bert was sent to Cambridge as Chief Inspector to run a repair organisation called Sebro that was responsible for repairing and rebuilding the Stirling four-engine bombers. They ended up making airworthy over one thousand military aircraft for both the RAF and USAAF. Bert developed close relationships with the RAF pilots and his engineers that remained for the rest of their lives. His success was so great that the Germans tired to kill him and destroy Sebro on a number of occasions. Luckily they failed. This book is a tribute to him and all aeronautical engineers who have made and still make flying safer for all of us. ... Read more

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Presents the memoirs of Seth B. Anderson and describes the beginnings of flight research as he knew it at Ames Research Center. Recalls numerous World War II programs and relates Anderson's experiences with powered-lift aircraft. Concludes with his impressions of two international flight research efforts. Includes Anderson's comprehensive collection of large-format photographs of the airplanes and people involved in the various flight activities related in the text ... Read more

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Title: Aeronautical Engineer, Professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, Provost for Professional Schools and Colleges, Vice Chancellor for Research and Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley, 1949 to 1983 / 2000Publication date: 0Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. College of EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley. Provost for Professional Schools and CollegesUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley. Office of the Vice Chancellor for ResearchAeronautical engineers -- CaliforniaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more