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Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics
by Barnes W. McCormick
Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1994
A modern undergraduate level textbook. Includes fundamentals of fluid mechanics, airfoils, lift and drag subsonic to supersonic, thrust, airplane performance, static and dynamic stability and control. Has a very good chapter on propeller analysis and design. Covers the propeller blade-element-momentum and vortex theory fundamentals. Excellent textbook.
Aerodynamics of V/Stol Flight
by Barnes W. McCormick, Jr.
Published by Academic Press, August 1967
An undergraduate to graduate level textbook. Has a brief review of needed aerodynamic fundamentals. Covers the propeller blade-element-momentum and vortex theory in detail. Applies theory to helicopter rotors, ducted propellers and various V/STOL type aircraft. Excellent textbook.
Airplane Performance Stability and Control
by Courtland D. Perkins and Robert E. Hage
Published by John Wiley & Sons, January 1949
An undergraduate level textbook that has become the original classic on airplane flight performance, stability and control. Lots of very useful design data from NACA testing. Has a section on the momentum theory of propellers and illustrates the chart method of propeller design. This method does not optimize the propeller design as well as theoretical methods. Highly recommended for its thorough, understandable approach and extensive data.
Theory of Flight
by Richard Von Mises
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., June 1959 (orig. 1945)
Another undergraduate level classic textbook on airplane flight performance, stability and control. Includes much early airfoil development. Has a good chapter on the blade-element-momentum theory of propellers but not vortex theory. Highly recommended for its clear, thorough approach.
Theory of Wing Sections Including a Summary of Airfoil Data
by Ira H. Abbott and Albert E. Von Doenhoff
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1959 (orig. 1949)
A classic reference book on airfoil design by two NACA/NASA research engineers. Includes most of the NACA developed airfoils up to 1949. Has airfoil coordinates, lift, drag, moment and pressure coefficient (velocity ratio) data and a thorough development of airfoil theory. Highly recommended for any aeronautical library.
Dynamics of Flight Stability and Control
by Bernard Etkin
Published by John Wiley & Sons,
A fundamental undergraduate level textbook on airplane static and dynamic stability and control. Includes open and closed loop system control theory. Includes extensive data on stability and control derivatives. Recommended for its thorough approach.
Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight
by Bernard Etkin
Published by John Wiley & Sons,
Although not yet reviewed, this book is a deeper, more comprehensive treatment of the material in "Dynamics of Flight Stability and Control". It treats the earth as a rotating sphere, rather than a stationary plane, with variations of altitude and atmospheric turbulence.
Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies
by Holt Ashley and Marten Landahl
Published by Dover publications, Inc., 1985 (orig. 1965)
A graduate level textbook. Reviews fundamental fluid mechanics two- and three-dimensional flows, perturbation problems, viscosity effects. Covers: Thin wing and slender-body theory, Three-dimensional wings in steady subsonic and supersonic flow, Drag and flow-reversal theorms in drag minimization, Interference and nonplanar lifting-surface theories, Transonic small disturbance flow, Unsteady flow. Excellent theoretical development.
Boundary Layer Theory
by Dr Hermann Schlichting
Published by McGraw Hill, July 1979
An undergraduate to graduate level textbook. This classic covers about everything there is on boundary layer theory. Includes much data. Should be in every aeronatical engineer's library.
Mathematics of Physics and Modern Engineering
by R.M. Redheffer and Ivan S. Sokolnikoff
Published by McGraw Hill, 1966
An undergraduate to graduate level textbook. Covers infinite series, vextors, matrices, determinants, ordinary and partial differential equations, complex variables, probability, Laplace transform, numerical analysis. Good engineering reference.
Theoretical Aerodynamics
by Louis Melveille Milne-Thomson
Published by Dover publications, Inc., 1973
An undergraduate level textbook. Covers fundamental fluid mechanics two- and three-dimensional flows, subsonic and supersonic, airfoil theory, Joukowski transformation, thin wings, simple flight mechanics and stability. Good straight forward classic mathematical development.
Airfoil Design and Data
by Richard Eppler
Published by Springer-Verlag, 1990
An excellent reference on airfoil design. Covers theory and presents many airfoils for various type of aircraft, helicopter rotors, sailplanes, propellers, hydrofoils, man powered flight. Includes coordinates and lift, drag, moment and velocity data.
Wing Theory
by Robert T. Jones
Published by Princeton University Press, 1990
Covers basic airfoil theory and behavior, compressibility, sweep, aspect ratio, lifting surface theory, minimum drag, drag of wing and body combinations. An excellent reference for the engineer's library.
Fundamentals of Hydro- & Aeromechanics
by Ludwig Prandtl and O. G. Tietjens
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1957
Based on Prandtl's lectures. Excellent introduction and clear explanation of fluid mechanics principles and concepts. Includes potential and vortex motions, compressibility, energy and momentum theorms, viscous fluids. Worth including in any library.
Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics
by W. Z. Stepniewski, C. N. Keys
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1984
There is a lot of good information (basically everything you want to know about designing a helicopter) in this book, but plan to spend a lot of time looking back at previous equations and what the symbols stand for. The symbols change throughout the book making it more confusing. If you want information on in-depth details about design, this book can help. Upper division college level.
Mathematical Methods of Airfoil Design : Inverse Boundary-Value Problems of Aerohydrodynamics
by A. M. Elizarov, et al
Published 1998
Not reviewed.
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