Helicopter Theory (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

useful book and good service

- Do you want to understand, "fully understand", helicopters? - Do you have a powerful mighty background in maths, aerodynamics, mechanics, vibration, materials elasticity, control engineering ...? - Are you willing to spend hours and more hours fighting with dark untamed mysterious equations? If you have answered "yes" to all of the previous questions, Get this book! You will not be disappointed. If you have answered "no" to any of the previous questions, Forget it! (This book is only for skilled Engineers.) Taking into account the huge information and knowledge contained in this book its price is a bargain. However for such a dense book it is not as friendly as it should be. More examples, figures, graphics, tables, numbers by each expression, and so on.., would be welcome and without any doubt would transform this text into a more friendly easy to follow book. A second, updated edition, will be great!

Concise, precise but very dry in my opinion. Be ready for some heave math and physics. By no means a book anyone with standard education can read. I recommend it only if you have higher knowledge in the subject.

To comlicated for what I wanted, would be fine for some one who requires all the maths etc,which I did not

a lot of detailed and good math and phisics

.. WARNING - This is a seriously high level mathmatical treatment of the aerodynamics of a helicopter in flight, solid equations from cover to cover, as the back cover states; "Wayne Johnson .....is engaged in the development of software that is used throughout the world for the analysis of rotorcraft" Absolutely, unless you have a higher-level engineering or maths degree forget it, if you are studying the subject and aim to write simulation software from first principles this is for you. I'll be applying myself in small doses when I have a 'good head' day.. ;-)

Wont invest the time to fully understand this book as it's more of an engineers manual than for a pilot (more of a pilot end of the spectrum for me) but is exceedingly insightful from the first paragraph onward. Helps greatly as an instructor for answering or backing up claims about helicopter's physics.

Este es sin duda el mejor libro de helicópteros, sin embargo no es un libro sencillo de leer, se recomienda ser ingeniero al menos, aunque me atrevo a decir que aún y con ingeniería resulta complicado, pero definitivamente es lo más completo teoría de helicópteros.

O livro é novo com a capa adequada, sem defeitos. O único porém é por conta dos correios que na primeira tentativa de entrega alegou que o endereço estava errado, e tive o trabalho adicional de acionar a equipe de suporte ao cliente da Amazon que prontamente agilizou a entrega, tendo recebido no dia seguinte.

Testo ottimo

Very interesting book on helicopter theory. Each concept is presented in a deep way. I found in this book a nice combination of theoretical materials and some practical points of view.