Airplane Stability and Control
Subtitle: A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible (Cambridge Aerospace Series)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780521021289
Subjects: Aerodynamics; Aerospace & aviation technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; History; Control systems; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Stability of airplanes; Military - Aviation; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Engineering - General; Technology / Engineering / General; Technology / History; Technology : Aeronautics & Astronautics; Technology : Engineering - General; Airplanes; Design and construction
First sentence: While scientists and mathematicians in the United States and Europe built the foundations of future advances by developing fundamental aeronautical theory, practical aeronautical designers invented and improved the airplane empirically.