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(More customer reviews)A great semi-technical flight test guide. Part aircraft design guide, part novel, part flight test guide. Very similar to the aircraft design book by the same author. If you are looking for a step by step part 23 flight test guide, get Kemberlin's book. Then buy this one for another reason. This book, and Stinton's design book foster a critical approach to evaluating an aircraft design. The author shows the reader how to look at an aircraft and see what the issues might be even before the first flight is made.
Stinton's experience is unique amongst flight test and aircraft design authors. All homebuilts designed and flown in the UK must be flight tested. Stinton flew a great many of these aircraft. Some were fantastic designs. Others were not. it is this eclectic flight experience that sets him apart from other authors. I've read his design book and I own this book. I would say about 40% or more of the material is common between them. Both give a good understanding of how to look critically at a design. (a necessity when you've been hired to fly an aircraft that has absolutely no engineering analysis backing up the design) The design book is a bit better for light aircraft designers. The flight test book is a bit better for flight testers. I like them both.
This book also demonstrates low-budget flight test techniques as you won't find a instrumentation system in a replica Nieuport!
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This work provides a clear, simple guide on performance, handling qualities and trouble-shooting. It tells pilots, and all who are interested in the finer points of aeronautics, how to heed and diagnose what aircraft say, before attempting to put them right.
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