I haven't read or heard anything about it, but I'll check our library
at work or here at UWV to see if I can browse it. By the way, both books
are much cheaper at A1TechBooks.com and I've ordered from them satisfactorily
(once).
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:52
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Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel]
Recommended non-free read
Good evening,
For something more recent I would also like to
recommend another book called "Airplane Stability and Control" by Larrabee and
Abzug. It is a technical, but fabulously engaging history of the
technologies that made controlled flight possible over the years. The
people who made the discoveries (including the equations of motion that
drive flight simulators which were formulated in 1912), the events
of the time and the pilots and test engineers who proved the theories.
The book just came out this Summer, make certain you get the SECOND
edition. It was reviewed by a friend of mine, and alot of the engineers
I knew in Seattle are included in the book.
It is also a good place to get an idea of the
state of the art in various aerodynamic and analysis subjects. Professor
Larrabee knew alot of the people in the book firsthand from a long and
illustrious career in aeronautics at MIT. He passed away shortly after
the book was released.
Here is the link to A1-techbooks.com where I got
my copy
Nickolas Hein
Morgantown WV
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:22
PM
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Recommended
free read
Hello all,
I recently got around to seeing what stuff
the Gutenburg project had and
found 'A History of Aeronautics' by E.
Charles Vivian.
Written in 1920, it's not a book about flying, hence
posting it here on
the dev list as opposed to the user list, but it gave
me a facsinating
insight to what was the state of the art at that
time. Much that we take
for granted now was still unknown or
undreamed of at that time and it was
funny, in a nice sort of way, to
read about the speculations then in the
light of what we know now, 83
years down the
line.
LeeE
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