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# Airplane Stability and Control: A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 14)

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desertcart.com: Airplane Stability and Control: A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 14): 9780521021289: Abzug, Malcolm J., Larrabee, E. Eugene: Books

Review: Five Stars - Great book that traces science of S&C and it's historical development.
Review: Covering the waterfront - The first question to ask about this work is ...for whom is it written? The authors seem to aim to practitioners in the field who may lack historical perspectives on the issues they confront. As such, working familiarity with the advanced mathematics of control systems is assumed. On the other hand, any technical professional not frightened by words like eigenvalues and linearization and so on can certainly find a lot of interesting material to think about. To such an audience, this becomes a history of the largely successful effort to understand the full complexities of maneuvering an aircraft controllably in three dimensions. It certainly makes clear that this is not a trivial matter and much that we take for granted in modern aviation was the result of a lot of hard and not very visible or spectacular work. The book is copiously illustrated both with prints of mathematical equations, charts, graphs and the like but also with contemporaneous engineering and technical pictures and schematics of actual hardware. There is a chapter-by-chapter bibliography, mostly of original papers and a useful index. The organization of the book is noteworthy in that it is broken into 24 separate topics (chapters), each with their own history, though the authors do explicitly state where cross references may be found. Many of the topics are of interest in isolation such as the deep stall phenomenon, early jet control systems, spin recovery, the specific needs of naval aviation, the effect of aeroelasticity on control, and so on. So, if not a practitioner, then a technically literate layperson with a deep interest in aviation would find much to enjoy in this work.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,579,812 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #279 in Aircraft Design & Construction #459 in Aeronautical Engineering #1,100 in Astronautics & Space Flight |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (13) |
| Dimensions  | 6.69 x 0.94 x 9.61 inches |
| Edition  | 2nd |
| ISBN-10  | 0521021286 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0521021289 |
| Item Weight  | 1.3 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | Cambridge Aerospace |
| Print length  | 416 pages |
| Publication date  | October 13, 2005 |
| Publisher  | Cambridge University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by T***N on October 19, 2016*

Great book that traces science of S&C and it's historical development.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Covering the waterfront
*by A***D on September 14, 2025*

The first question to ask about this work is ...for whom is it written? The authors seem to aim to practitioners in the field who may lack historical perspectives on the issues they confront. As such, working familiarity with the advanced mathematics of control systems is assumed. On the other hand, any technical professional not frightened by words like eigenvalues and linearization and so on can certainly find a lot of interesting material to think about. To such an audience, this becomes a history of the largely successful effort to understand the full complexities of maneuvering an aircraft controllably in three dimensions. It certainly makes clear that this is not a trivial matter and much that we take for granted in modern aviation was the result of a lot of hard and not very visible or spectacular work. The book is copiously illustrated both with prints of mathematical equations, charts, graphs and the like but also with contemporaneous engineering and technical pictures and schematics of actual hardware. There is a chapter-by-chapter bibliography, mostly of original papers and a useful index. The organization of the book is noteworthy in that it is broken into 24 separate topics (chapters), each with their own history, though the authors do explicitly state where cross references may be found. Many of the topics are of interest in isolation such as the deep stall phenomenon, early jet control systems, spin recovery, the specific needs of naval aviation, the effect of aeroelasticity on control, and so on. So, if not a practitioner, then a technically literate layperson with a deep interest in aviation would find much to enjoy in this work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book
*by W***R on February 28, 2010*

This is a book I have waited some time to purchase, how glad I am to have eventually obtained it. The knowledge inside is worth more than the purchase price. Thank you for the excellent service you provided in obtaining my new found knowledge.

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