Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight [Hardcover]

Bernard Etkin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1972 | ISBN-10: 0471246204 | ISBN-13: 978-0471246206

Geared toward upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, this text concerns the dynamics of atmospheric flight, with focus on airplane stability and control. An extensive set of numerical examples covers STOL airplanes, subsonic jet transports, hypersonic flight, stability augmentation, and wind and density gradients. 260 illustrations .1972 edition.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 580 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (June 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471246204
• ISBN-13: 978-0471246206
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,462,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Defacto aircraft dynamics book, September 3, 2002

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Suresh Kannan (Atlanta, GA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight (Hardcover)

The new edition by Etkin/Reid is probably suitable for undergraduate study and introductory flight mechanics but the 72 Etkin, edition is probably the most useful on the long run for graduate students and practising engineers as it is quite comprehensive. It is unfortunate that this edition is out of print and is quite difficult to procure. This book is even more useful with Steven & Lewis's, Aircraft Control and Simulation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bible of Flight Mechanics, March 19, 2007

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Mark Nopp - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) (Paperback)

yes it is like the bible, because it gives every information in such a way that you find your own way to learn.... it would be better and easy to read if the pages were bigger. that's it....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Flight Dynamics, August 2, 2008

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Frank J. Regan (ellicott city, maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) (Paperback)

i taught a course for several years at the University of Maryland using this book. It is the best book on aircraft static and dynamic stability. Other books on this subject skip over static stbility and go on to dynamic stability and feed back controls. Etkin does cover dynamic stability pretty well, but when he gets into any type of feedback control such as yaw mode supression, this book shows it age. Even in dynamic statility work, the non-dimensionalizing of the equations (non-dimentional time particularly) is adds nothing. If this section were up to date, then it would be a bit more useful. Nevertheless, the static stability coveage is excellent: there are no other books on the market which do this area as well. It would be more useful if feedback controls were left to a second volume and maybe helipter static stability covered as well.