Understanding Flight

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As a pilot, I have more than a passing interest in aerodynamics. If I'm to believe the pundits, it keeps my aircraft up in the air; so out of a feeling of self-preservation, I've tried hard to understand what's happening to my aircraft during flight and as a result and most important, understand what is safe to do during flight.

There are many books on the subject with most of them written in dry, academic tones complete with differential calculus. There are notable exceptions to this ('The Science of Flight' by Hubin comes to mind) but really, I've not found many books that take a conversational approach until I got 'Understanding Flight' by Anderson. Quickly but precisely, Anderson dissects aerodynamics for the non-mathematician and using examples from other fields and everyday occurrences, explains what happens when a wing is subject to an airflow. Due to this book, I've been finally disabused of the great sucking theorem by Bernoulli that most often is used to explain lift. The point is, Anderson explains exactly what happens and it makes sense. Along the way, he does a reasonable job of debunking other theories of flight and why they couldn't logically explain heavier-than-air flight.

I really like this book and do highly recommend it.


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