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I'm not a radar expert, but with this book I COULD BE!!!
Mr. Stimson's book, "Introduction to Airborne Radar (2nd Edition)," has been one of my most treasured purchases from my graduate school education. I expected a book filled with equations and bad graphs and tables - I was wonderfully surprised by the high quality graphics, easy to follow mathematical treatment, and historical views into past and present radar systems.
No other introduction needed
Stimson's second edition is a slight improvement over his first. "Slight" because improving near perfection remains a difficult task. Nowhere else is such clarity apparent in the complex field of radars. Thanks to Stimson this subject could be understood by my grandmother. If only Stimson would carry edition three to the next echelon, extending depth and detail to levels required to actually build and make a working, modern radar. Like applying his talent to the intricacies of adaptive processing, a completion of SAR computational demands and processes (vs. stopping at the digital filter FFT), nuances of ever more important phase noise, test, measurement and producibility of radar systems that shouldn't cost a million dollars per copy, but a fraction of this with proper processes and synergistic integration vs. the "Mister Potato Head" approach of slapping together the latest-greatest-of-every-subsystem-technology still practiced by engineers in just about everything. Unfortunately this may be our last version from Stimson as he's no longer a young man and such efforts are monumental. Even so, he's made himself a national asset creating this magnificent edition, probably lasting longer than any of us in the field today.

Not easy reading
I bought this book because I work with radar and would like to improve my understanding of it. This book is a good middle ground, but for a dummy like me, several chapters require re-reads.One of the most annoying things is that when the author describes related material, he doesn't compare and contrast as much as write one paragraph on the attributes of thing A and then another paragraph on thing B using all but two words that were used in the first paragraph. The reader must wade through this writing and then compare and contrast themself.Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautical Engineering (Specific Aspects)    2. Aeronautics & Astronautics    3. Airplanes    4. Aviation - General    5. Radar    6. Radar Technology    7. Radar equipment    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Aerospace & aviation technology    12. Technology / Radar   

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College type text book
I recommend this book because it covers all the material for the Private Pilot license in an easy to understand manner.It is full of colored pictures and important concepts in bold print.This is a great book for studying to become a private pilot.

I used it, now my students do.
Yes, I know it's pricey. Think of it as an investment. Buy it. End of story.

Excellent book, execpt 1 thing!
Overall the book was great, it gave me my pilots license but the 1 thing the book didn't do so well on was the weather section. I had trouble understanding the weather theory section so I had to refrence another book so I could learn about the weather. That's it, just the theory, the weather reports and forcast section was good. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Airplanes    2. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    3. Handbooks & Manuals    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Piloting    6. Private flying    7. Reference    8. Transportation   

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Bought for a class.
The whole amazon experience was excellent as usual, but I had to buy this book for a class so I can't say that I'm always excited about what I'm reading. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aircraft Maintenance    2. Airlines    3. Airplanes    4. Aviation - Repair & Maintenance    5. Maintenance and repair    6. Management    7. Transportation    8. Aerospace & aviation technology    9. Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics   

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Fantastic resource
This was a required test for a rocket propulsion class, but it has become an invaluable resource for many classes.Purchased for at least 20% less than other outlets.

A Must-Have Textbook for every Aerospace Engineer
This is the single best book on rocket propulsion systems, covering both liquid and solid rocket engines, hybrid rocket systems, and a dedicated chapter on electric propulsion. The authors include excellent illustrations and graphs to enhance the text, and practical examples which help the reader to grasp the theory. After loaning a copy of this book for over two years from my library, i finally bought it! Definitely recommended to all engineers and scientists who want to expand into the area of rocket propulsion.

Beware of Typographical Errors
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Astrophysics & Space Science    3. Aviation - General    4. Rocket Propulsion    5. Rocket engines    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Aerodynamics    10. Aerospace & air transport industries    11. Aerospace & aviation technology    12. Engineering thermodynamics    13. Science / Astrophysics & Space Science   

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First-class book of airportindustry
A very good book,most 'freindly' and understandabale, offers wide spectrum ofairport's infrastructure as well as its economic aspects. Recommanded forb thse intersted in aaition in general and airport planning in particular.
The Book Of Choice For Students and Dreamers
Like many young men, and I daresay women, I was drawn to airport management after exposure to Burt Lamcaster's sterling portrayal of a harried airport manager in the Ross Hunter classic AIRPORT.Lancaster showed us that a man could handle a million problems all at once, if he had the right combination of grit and gray cells.It wasn't only the glamor, it was the idea of helping people get through their day--even when the people in question were six or seven miles up in the air--that made me consider airport management as a major at school.
Excellent reference for any student of airport management
Airport Planning & Management is an excellent reference for any student of airport management or aviation.Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Airports    3. Aviation - General    4. Industries - Transportation    5. Management    6. Planning    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Transportation    9. Aerospace & air transport industries    10. Aerospace & aviation technology    11. Transportation / General   

Editorial Review

One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: Read more

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FEMALE AFRICAN BUSH PILOT IN THE 30's GIVES INSIDE VIEW
Beryl Markham's book West with the Night is a true story of how she lived and worked in Africa as a push pilot back in the 1930's -- almost amazing for a woman...what an experience alone-- what an adventure-- but her writing -- ahhh that's something amazing in itself....from dealing with the Blackwater Die to the lion who almost ate her to search for a Libyan port and a fallen colleague-- a beautiful book...each chapter is written almost like a true short story....she's a beautiful writer and to think this is a piece of our women's past that is here to still cherish-- belongs on the shelf of every women's studies office...great for a young woman to read....especially great gift to a chick going off to college.

Beautifully Written
West With the night is Beryl Markham's memoir of life as a bush pilot in 1930s Africa. The beautifully written prose paints evocative pictures of the Serengeti in the reader's brain, and each paragraph is dense and satisfying. A wonderful read, especially for fans of Out of Africa - and some of the same people are mentioned in this book.
Probably the most beautifully written book I have ever read.
The exceptional wordcrafting in West With The Night brings Africa alive and makes it almost a personal experience. Beryl Markham was a most interesting individual and her life growing up in Africa is the beautiful background for this book. I have only reread one book in my sixty-some years and this is it. I enjoyed it at least as much the second time around.
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Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Aviation - History    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Great Britain    7. Markham, Beryl    8. Personal Memoirs    9. Women    10. Women air pilots   

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Aviation And the Role of Government
Great info on the history of aviation.Fast easy reading but not much on leglislation.The price of this book is criminal.

Aviation and the Role of Government
Give a good chronological review from the early days of aviation thru deregulation. More of a history of aviation then a review of legislation. Book did not get deep into early legislation but did devote a lot of chapters to regulation/deregulation. Overall material was informative but had a lot of personal views from author. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aviation - General    2. Transportation   

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FULL of errors!
Great idea for the book BUT spoiled by incorrect facts and explanations on almost every page! Thus it is good if you use it for the questions but NOT the answers.
watch this book, dont take the answers for granted!
I agree with michel that there are a lot of mistakes in the book. It is good for the questions but NOT for the answers.
Dozens of errors for you to find and correct!
This book is literally full of errors and inaccuracies. While it has helped me refresh my memory a bit, one really has to be careful and critical to avoid learning wrong answers! Sometimes the given answer is even exactly the opposite of the correct answer. Some examples:
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Subjects:  1. Aircraft Operation    2. Airplanes    3. Aviation - Commercial    4. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    5. Careers - General    6. Employment Interviewing    7. Examinations    8. Human Resources & Personnel Management    9. Piloting    10. Study guides    11. Transportation    12. Aviation skills / piloting    13. Personnel & human resources management    14. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction   

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I never understood flight until I read this book
Amazing Book. there were so many small nagging questions I had on the art of flying...and this book clarified those doubts.I have read so many books on flying, watched so many videos on flight. My flight insructor has taught me flying...but this one was the glue that put it all together.
Be patient and you will learn
Let's start with a fact: I am a pilot.
The Amway of flying books - save your $$
Remember Amway has a cult following too - even today, they are the largest online seller of health & beauty.
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Transportation    6. Aerospace & aviation technology    7. Aircraft: general interest    8. Flying as a recreation    9. Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics   

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Invalid Statistics Zone: How and why stats lie
Unfortunately the central thesis of this book is not proved. Two previous reviewers, "Canuck" and the anonymous reader who posted the review on November 25, 2003, pretty much nailed the problem with this book: a failure to normalize the raw accident totals. Do low-time pilots have a higher fatal accident rate per hour flown than high-time pilots? It's impossible to say with the data provided. For example, given the following accident statistics covering a 17 year period:
A Must for New Pilots
Getting your Private Pilot's Certification is not enough and this book explains it all.

Not bad but not great
There is some interesting information in here, but the book could have been half as long.Much of the book repeats basics that we all know from our student pilot training (or at least should know).The crash reports and summaries are a good reminder of some basic pilot errors that cause accidents, but I was hoping for more practical advice on risk management. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics    2. Aircraft Operation    3. Aircraft accidents    4. Aviation - General    5. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    6. Navigation    7. Safety measures    8. Transportation    9. Aviation skills / piloting    10. Flying as a recreation    11. Transportation / General   

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Awesome Airplane Design Reference
One of the best airplane design books out there.I rank it with Torenbeek and Roskam.I refer to it during my design studies as well as my students.

Great book
I'm a second-year aerospace engineering student and after searching for books that would tell me exactly why I'm learning what I am, this one was recommended to me. The author explains how and why designers do what they do, and even has a handwritten design example in the back. I bought the RDS software with this book, and am still figuring it out. If you do get the RDS, don't expect a Windows interface. Think DOS. At least it's not a system hog.

Necessary Starting Point to Understanding Aircraft Design
This is an excellent, and for the time being the authoratative, book about aircraft design. For anyone who wants to become an aerospace engineer reading a book like this should put any type of work they'll do in the proper context.
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Aircraft Design And Construction    3. Airplanes    4. Aviation - General    5. Design and construction    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Transportation    8. Aerospace & aviation technology    9. Technical design   

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Pilots handbook
This is a must for the student pilot as well as to the advanced.lots of great info that I wasn't aware of.

A great source of practical aviation information
A great way of gaining and reviewing aviation knowledge.Up-to-date and easy to follow.Packed with pertinant information with little or no dead wood.Usable for student pilots through ATP's.A very cost effective book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aircraft Operation    2. Airplanes    3. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    4. Piloting    5. Transportation    6. Aviation skills / piloting    7. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction   

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Generally Good, Though Occasionally Off Track
"Commercial Aviation Safety" is a great introductory text for students wanting exposure to most safety considerations in aviation. The book is a well-organized survey, although I only award it four stars because the authors frequently get off-topic into areas only tangentially related to aviation safety.
Excellent commercial aviation text
Commercial Aviation Safety is an excellent textbook for those needing a thorough overview of the nature of commercial aviation. Commercial Aviation Safety
This book is special for accident investigators. The book give us an special point of view for rules and procedures in commercial airlines. Commercial Aviation Safety should be in your library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics    2. Aeronautics, Commercial    3. Aviation - Commercial    4. Aviation Safety (Engineering)    5. Safety measures    6. Transportation    7. United States    8. Aerospace & air transport industries    9. Occupational / industrial health & safety    10. Technology / Engineering / Industrial   

Subjects:  1. Aircraft Maintenance    2. Aircraft Operation    3. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    4. Aviation - Repair & Maintenance    5. Transportation    6. Aviation skills / piloting    7. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction    8. USA   

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Essential reading for the GA Instrument pilot
As a CFI I have numerous books in my aviation library. This book details flying in weather and the mindset required to be a safe and competent instrument pilot.
Dealing with the weather
Not a lesson on meteorology; more of a lesson on judgment and decision-making. In other words, how does one deal with the weather? What does one do with the information one has?
"The sky is my office"
It is hard to imagine a pilot with more weather flying experience than Captain Robert Buck. And much of this flying was in the old days: in the early years of the Army Air Corp and a young company called TWA. Much of this flying was accomplished without the assistance of modern instrumentation. Captain Buck travelled the world seeking the most ornery weather he could find, and then flew into it time and time again, compiling the experience and collecting the data that no one else had at the time. Captain Buck shares that experience here. This book is interesting and engaging to the flying enthusiast, essential to the VFR pilot, and absolutely priceless to the aspiring instrument pilot. Every discipline and every pastime has its classics, and WEATHER FLYING is, without a doubt, one of the classics of aviation.
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Air Sports    3. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    4. General    5. Meteorology In Aeronautics    6. Sports & Recreation    7. Transportation    8. Aerospace & aviation technology    9. Air sports & recreations    10. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction   

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Father of the Queen of the Skies
There have been many books written about the 747, but none of them tell the human side of taking one of the largest aircraft off the drawing board and into the skies in two years time.Joe Sutter is the consumate engineer, he engages you in a voice that keeps you interested all of the way through the book.He does it in such a way that makes you feel that maybe you where there.Boeing bet the company on the 747, if it had been a failure the company would probably be a footnote in history.The company put their trust in one single man, who claims he and Boeing grew up together.Joe also includes the stories of many others along the way, he never takes credit for himself but always makes you aware that it was a team effort.In fact he leads off with a disclaimer that if he remembered it wrong he was sorry.
Joe SutterIS " one of the great ones "
The above partial quote is plagerized from Joes book as he quotes Charles Linderbergh comments about the 747 which in its entirety was " This is one of the great ones "
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautical engineers    2. Aircraft Design And Construction    3. Aviation - General    4. Aviation - History    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography / Autobiography    8. Boeing 747 (Jet transports)    9. Design and construction    10. Historical - General    11. History Of Specific Companies    12. Personal Memoirs    13. Scientists - General    14. Transportation    15. United States    16. Biography & Autobiography / Historical   

Subjects:  1. Applied Psychology    2. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    3. Aviation psychology    4. Psychology    5. Aviation skills / piloting    6. Occupational & industrial psychology    7. Technology / Engineering / Industrial   

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Great Book
A must for all Pilots.
We fly the way we train...
I first read of Rich Stowell in AOPA's Flight Training August 2001 issue, ordered the book, then found his friend's [...] flight school, where I spent an intense five weeks of dual instruction toward my private certificate (winter 2004).As Wolfgang Langewiesche points out in his classic, "Stick and Rudder", airplanes depend more on airflow in whatever direction, and forget about the ground.Rich (and Tim) point this out in discussion of control inputs and outputs, which don't necessarily mesh with the book answers in ground school.Use the latter for the written test, and what is real for the flying.I flew about 26 spin recoveries, 180 landings, and who knows how many stalls and other maneuvers, to the point where I could fly a slip straight ahead, slowly feed in rudder and feel the airplane depart toward a spin, and bring it back from that edge.My Aeronca Champ feels like a completely different airplane after all that Super Decathlon training.Buy the book, but fly the training, too.

Buy the book, fly the lessons!
This IS a great book.I got the most out of it AFTER taking Module I with it's author.Several weeks later I took Module II and got even more out of the book! Every pilot should get this kind of training.I find myself using this book as a reference quite often. Get the book, take the training, you'll be glad you did. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    2. Emergency maneuvers (Aeronautics)    3. Flight training    4. Mystery/Suspense    5. Sports & Recreation / Air Sports    6. Transportation    7. Transportation / Aviation / General    8. Aeronautics    9. Aviation skills / piloting   

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Basic Flight Physiology
Highly informative. A must read for any aviator at any level of experience. The author breaks down the somewhat confusing dialogue of such topics as hypoxia and hearing and vision factors into a simplified and informative approach. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    2. Aviation medicine    3. Aviation physiology    4. Health/Fitness    5. Infectious Diseases    6. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    7. Science    8. Transportation    9. Aviation skills / piloting    10. Physiology    11. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction   

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Airport planner and engineer's viewpoint - updated
The best of its kind for the technical detail. We have most of the other airport and terminal design books on the bookshelf (up to 2005 publication date), but every time we come back to using Horonjeff for the serious design ofnew airports and extensions. It is also good for layout design by theengineer for terminals - although the architects may want more books. But there is another book - the 2003 book titled Airport Systems - Planning, Design and Management by Richard de Neufville and Amedeo Odoni - that will become the definitive text on airport design for the first part of the 21st century. So you'll need both, especially if you have to deal with the complexity of systems and stakeholders that are part of medium to large size airports.
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Airport Design    3. Airports    4. Architecture    5. Design and construction    6. Engineering - Civil    7. Planning    8. Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    9. Reference    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Aerospace & air transport industries    12. Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    13. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building