Aeronautics: A Class Text

Abstract

THE work under notice differs considerably in conception and treatment from that usually associated with the title “aeronautics.” It is very clearly written, and will be particularly valuable to advanced students of the subject for many reasons. On the other hand, it will not appeal strongly to the less advanced worker who delights to regard himself as “practical,” for he will find only a “skeleton airplane” of the simplest type as a basis for all the calculations made. The more usual curves by which laboratory results are expressed are subordinated to analytical expressions. The peculiar advantages of this point of view are obvious in many places, notably in the treatment of the fall of bodies through air. Without containing such original matter as that of Bryan in “Stability in Aviation,” the new volume expresses ideas more nearly those of Bryan than of any other writer on the subject.

Aeronautics: A Class Text.

By Prof. E. B. Wilson. Pp. vii + 265. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920.) Price 22s. net.