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(More customer reviews)One reviewer said this book wasn't right for US readers. I can understand this: I went to a UK university, did flight mechanics as a 2nd year undergrad and got mired in thousands of symbols for things.
The only books available to us back in 1995-6 were the excellent Etkin and the superb Stevens & Lewis... BUT both were expensive, used totally different symbology and conventions, and ft / lbs / secs. as units too (we used the SI system). This cost us a lot of time and effort - flight mechanics is about understanding aircraft, not about translating symbols between lecture notes and textbooks. It wasn't helped by the fact that we had a flight dynamics lecturer who neither liked nor understood what he was teaching (he told us!).
But a year or two later, this book came out and it was exactly what we should have used. The book used the same notation as our (British) lecturer had done. Better still, there were clear, step-by-step explanations, no nasty surprises, plenty of worked examples, no cop-outs like 'we intuitively see that...' The writing is clear and simple, no matter which system of symbols you're used to. If you're USA-based, you might be better suited to using Etkin, but if you work in the UK system, buy this book ! ! !
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