Airplane aerodynamics & performance

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.