Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996
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Clean dust jacket, cover and text. Partial contents: Wings According to Size; A Hard Day's Flight; In Wind and Weather; Flying with Finesse. --- We are a Benedictine Monastery / Seminary library; thank you for your support.
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- Title
- Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets
- Author
- Tennekes, Henk
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262201054
- ISBN 13
- 9780262201056
- Dimensions
- 26 CM
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Review
From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. This book offers an introduction to the mechanics of flight and, beyond that, to the scientific attitude that finds wonder in simple calculations and forges connections between, say, the energy efficiency of a peanut butter sandwich that fuels your body and that of the kerosene that fuels a jumbo jet. It is the product of a lifetime of watching and investigating flight by an always wise and often witty scientist and writer.
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