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Aeronautical Books, my favourites
The tables below list part of my aeronautical library. It's by no means complete, but shows those aviation book titles that bear some relevance to my IBIS homebuilt project or to experimental aviation or operating aircraft in general.
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Aircraft Design - conceptual, aerodynamic
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General Aviation Aircraft Design (On the top of this list for a reason: if you're only going to buy just one from this list, this is the one to pick...)
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Snorri Gudmundsson
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9780123973085
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Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach
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Daniel P. Raymer
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1-56347-281-3
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Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design (a good reference that unfortunately is severly lacking in typography, layout and quality of illustrations)
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Egbert Torenbeek
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90-247-2724-3
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Fluid-Dynamic Lift
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S.F. Hoerner
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Fluid-Dynamic Drag
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S.F. Hoerner
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The Anatomy of the Airplane - 2nd ed.
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Darrol Stinton
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1-56347-286-4
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The Design of the Aeroplane
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Darrol Stinton
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0-246-11328-6
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Theory of Wing Sections (what can I say, an all-time classic)
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Abbot & Von Doenhoff
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GA Airfoils (use only the hard solid data from this book and ignore the author's diatribe against other airfois section sources...)
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Harry Riblett
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Fundamentals of Hydro- and Aeromechanics
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Prandtl and Tietjens
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0-486-60374-1
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Low Power Laminar Aircraft Design, 2nd Ed. - 2nd printing 1984
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Alex Strojnik
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Low Power Laminar Aircraft Technologies, 1984
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Alex Strojnik
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Personal Aircraft Drag Reduction, 2nd Ed. 1996
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Bruce Carmichael
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Ultralight and Light Self Launching Sailplanes
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Bruce Carmichael
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The Glider (L'Aliante)
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Dott. Ing. STELIO FRATI
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La Construction des Planeurs - manuel du vol sans moteur
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J.M. Cabanes
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Les Secrets de la construction des aéronefs légers (also highly recommended, but you need to be able to read French, naturellement...)
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Henri Fékété
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978-2-7483-5912-1
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L'origine des Trainées Parasites (1989/03) (also recommended, written in French as well)
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Association INTER-ACTION
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Grundlagen für den Entwurf von Segelflugzeugen
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Fred Thomas
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3-87943-682-7
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Structural Aircraft Design
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Analysis & Design of Flight Vehicle Structures
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E.F. Bruhn
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Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers
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Jean-Claude Flabel
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0-9647014-0-5
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Stress Without Tears
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Tom Rhodes
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ANC-18, "Design of Wood Aircraft Structures" [out of print]
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Munitions Board - Aircraft Committee, DoD
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Understanding Aircraft Composite Construction
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Zeke Smith
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0-9642828-1-X
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Building your Bird
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Aircraft Sheet Metal
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JEPPESEN - Sanderson Training Products
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0-89100-296-0
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Sheet Metal Building Basics
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Jack Dueck / EAA
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Custom Aircraft Building with Sheet Metal - Volumes 1 & 2
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EAA Air Museum Foundation, Inc.
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EAA Aircraft building techniques - WOOD
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EAA, Oshkosh, WI
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How to Paint your Aircraft
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Ron Alexander / EAA
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Firewall Forward
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Tony Bingelis
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0-940000-93-8
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Tony Bingelis on Engines
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Tony Bingelis
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0-940000-54-7
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Flying / operating the beast !
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Flight Testing Homebuilt Aircraft
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Vaughan Askue
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978-1-56027-628-9
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Winning on the Wind
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George Moffat
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The compleat taildragger pilot
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Harvey S. Plourde
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0-9639137-0-0
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Inleiding tot de Meteorologie [out of print]
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F.H. Schmidt
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Theorie voor Privévliegers (a nice Dutch compilation that severly lacks an index to all themes covered. Because of this not very accessible as a reference)
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B. Mosbach
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90-801017-4-5
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Be a better pilot
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Alan Bramson
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0-6680490-14
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Flying the Weather Map - 2nd Ed.
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Richard L. Collins
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1-56027-319-4
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Sunset to Sunrise - night flight techniques
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David Robson
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1-56027-542-1
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Never get lost - interpretation of radionavigation (if you can read Germany, you better purchase the original, as this translation - and especially the cramped page layout leaves a lot to be desired)
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Wilhelm Thaller
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3-00-008643-9
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Voler en France (Sprechfunk im Sichtflug) (French VHF procedures for VFR-flights)
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Rainer M. Meth
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The Best of AMJ Maintainance Tips
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JEPPESEN
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0-89100-341-X
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Methods, Theory & Tidbits...
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Efficient Solvers for Incompressible Flow Problems
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Stefan Turek
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3-540-65433-X
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Schwanzlose Flugzeuge (if you happen to own the English translation, please note that quite a few errors were corrected later on. There is a revision sheet somewhere on the internet...)
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Karl Nickel & Michael Wohlfahrt
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3-7643-2502-X
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Nurflügel
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Reimar Horten & Peter F. Selinger
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3-900310-09-2
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Flying Wings
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Rudolf Storck
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3-7637-6242-6
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Henri Mignet and his Flying Fleas
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Ken Ellis & Geoff Jones
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0-85429-765-0
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Speed with Economy
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Kent Paser
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Technologie des Flugzeuges
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Publisher Klaus Engmann - et al
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3-8343-3074-1
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P51 Mustang (as the P51-D is my all-time favourite, I had to include some P51 titles as well, sorry...)
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Robert Grinsell, Crown Publishers Inc.
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0-7106-0033-X
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P-51 Mustang Action!
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FLIGHT JOURNAL Special Issue (Summer 2002)
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P-51D Mustatang
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Aircraft Monograph No. 3 by Aerodata International
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