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Science from Your Airplane Window

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Personally I have always thought about many of these topics while flying, but never gave a thought to writing anything in print. Kudos to Elizabath for providing simple understandings for a curious mind.

I would definitely recommend this little book; the amount of details it reveals to the unaided person is impressive; flying will never be the same after you read it; you will be curious about everything;

The book however cannot be awarded 5 stars;

There are basically two reasons for this:

- It begins with the explanation on how lift on airfoils is produced. This explanation relies on the air particles on the suction side having to cover a longer distance than the air particles on the pressure side, both meeting at the trailing edge. This is a wrong argument. Today, you can find this kind of wrong arguments flourishing on the internet.

- The physics underlying some observations is not explained;
If I hadn't read Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics prior to Wood's book, I wouldn't have enjoyed this little gem.