Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

This book covers a lot of fundemental theory of flight dynamics. Great resource for professional or graduate students. Derivations are very informative! Would recommend for anyone interested in flight mechanics!

My idiot brother in law wants to become a pilot, but he is 19 with no drivers license. Got him this for Christmas. He read about 3 pages and hasn’t picked it up for over a year. Great practical joke.

One of the Aerospace Engineering classic texts. Written by Bernard Etkin who is well known in the field of stability and control. This book starts from the fundamentals of mathematics and control systems theory and vectors etc... I love the way of putting the equations of motion in many forms with this input/output form, which is only found within Etkin books (it is like a trade mark). Covering of modeling of forces and moments is the best and puts it in a simple way although this isn't an ways subject at all, Same thing for static stability. The thing that could be done much better is the topics of dynamic stability and solution of equations of motion.. I think it could be much better to expand it, this book is really poor in explaining the physics of dynamic motion. I couldn't find a detailed explanation of lateral modes... Also it lacks examples and could use a better index. Even after saying all that I can say for studying Flight Dynamics this is the first text you should read or obtain, the price is very low when considering similar texts, so according to price this is the best and I recommend it if you don't want to buy books that cost 100$.

I bought this book expecting it to focus on suborbital flight, hypersonics, and reentry dynamics. I did not realize that the author intended the word "atmospheric" to mean subsonic flight at low altitudes. Glancing at the book, it seems good for what it is, but only rehashes the (widely known and widely reproduced) theory of aircraft dynamics in subsonic flows and classical autopilot architecture. There are much better books for this standard material, my personal favorite being Blakelock's "Automatic Control of Aircraft and Missiles".

Very inexpensive and technically sound. This book is definitely dated though and some concepts receive more modern treatment in other texts.

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....

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.

Worse than printed from a home printer.

I really liked this book, it was exactly what I was looking for. I have seen other comments about some topics being a bit dated, but in my case this was not an important aspect, let me explain you why. I am a control systems engineer, and I am more concerned about the mathematical aspect, the notation, reference frames, forces, moments, and the like. So having used this book as an introductory text, I can go to more modern references and understan them. There are two introductory chapters about mathematics and control theory that you can skip if you know something abot the topic. The book arrived early and in perfect contitions, some pages were glued but this was not such a big deal for me.

Livro essencial para estudantes de engenharia aeroespacial. Aborda inúmeros tópicos relacionados à dinâmica de voo

一口に「Etkin」と言っても実は4種類の本が存在する。Dynamics of Flight- Stability and Controlの初版（1959）、第二版（1982）、第三版（1995）とDynamics of Atmospheric Flight (1972)である。D. of Flightは教科書の性質が強く、D. of Atmospheric Flightは著者曰く「当時の最先端を網羅した」もので、今日でも全く古臭さを感じさせない。今回Dover editionとして復刻したようで、不朽の名著が再び入手しやすくなったのが嬉しい。私が修士の学生をしていた1990年代終わりの頃でもこの本は人気が高く、大学の図書館でなかなか借り出すことが出来なかった。コンピューターの使用を意識した現代的な飛行力学の本でで乱気流に対する応答の解析が詳しい。

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