Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance [Paperback]

Jan Roskam (Author), C. T. Lan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 457 pages
• Publisher: Darcorporation; Revised edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884885446
• ISBN-13: 978-1884885440
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,624,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, October 9, 2004

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James Cho - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance (Paperback)

Confusing diagrams, odd formula derivations with insufficient explanation as to what's important and what is not. There are many minor typographical errors, though those do little more than annoy. I have struggled for hours trying to glean some meaning from this book and am bewildered at the authors' methods and content organization. This book is almost incomprehensible, and is only useful (sometimes) for its exhaustive breakdowns of concepts. This book throws every bit of everything at you with no regard to helping you understand aircraft performance or design.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wealth of well presented information, May 8, 2010

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Juan Gonzalez-cabeza (France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance (Paperback)

An encyclopedic book on airplane aerodynamics and performance presenting all aspects of this vast field in a good organized and accesible manner. The diagrams and pictures have a more coloquial quality, but they are in general very instructive and at times lively as they present data, aspects or facts about planes that have made aviation history. It is not a book for every one, and specially not for the reader expecting to get in short an overview of airplanes design or analysis. It is excellent for the student that higher values a technical than a scientific approach to aerodynamics. The book presents not only equations, it presents a wealth of data on values, parameters, technical solutions, realized on existing airplanes. You end reading each chapter with a good understanding of the concepts AND an overview of the numbers you can expect when realising technical solutions.