Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective, 2nd Edition (Aiaa Education Series) 2nd Edition

This was a Second Edition book. Book was in shrink-wrap and brand spanking new, just as advertised. Only one hiccup. If you are interested in the aeroDYNAMIC spreadsheet software it came with when it was published, buy the third edition. AIAA Education now charges $94.95 for the software and stripped the CD's from all the leftover 2nd Ed books they unloaded to dealers when the 3rd Ed came out. So the extremely reasonable price ($7.35 now for the 2nd edition vs $76.00 for a new 3rd Ed) is because they do not contain the software CD.That having been said, this is an excellent book for someone with little knowledge of Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering as a introduction to the disciplines involved or as a review for someone that hasn't looked at them in a while.

Basically a how to build an airplane step by step. It covers all material very well and formulas are somewhat derived for you. The examples are fairly well written and shows how to use the theories taught in that chapter. There are only a few per chapter unfortunately butt hey do cover a lot of ground.As for the seller, as described shipped quick using primes no well packed :)

The book i needed in college for much cheaper

The book is good and recommended. However I bought the book specifically because I had read it comes with a DVD of design software. The book even says it is supposed to come with it, yet there was no DVD included, and no instuctions on how to obtain the DVD. If Amazon reads this please contaact me at my e-mail address for this account.

A very useful book for my Introduction to Aerospace course.Contains lots of useful information and equations.Easy to understand.

Introduction to Aeronautics a design perspective in the need of expand our need in the field of new generation of Engeeniers

Quite hard to follow. The organization is pretty weird and jumps all over the place. Diagram that are being refered to and are usually on the next page, so you end up fliping back and forth. Formulars are organized pretty badly. End of chapter has a summary which give the important parts, so that's a plus.

Great book