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    Interesting Books

    I would like to post URL's of interesting books about aviation. This books might be homebuilders' food for thought.

    Joseph Chambers. Modeling flight.

    http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/483000main_ModelingFlight.pdf
    Last edited by Commodore; 08-03-2011 at 02:37 AM.

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    I publish a couple of books on Alternative Engines:
    http://www.contactmagazine.com/altengines.html

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    I have all of your books. Thank you. I am waiting for Volume IV.

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    We're working on it.

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    Huge collection of books: http://openlibrary.org/
    You may borrow books to your browser for free after registration.

    For example, borrow "Aircraft Sheet Metal Work" book:

    http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15396...nd_repair_work

    or "Aircraft Maintenance" book:

    http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15123...ft_maintenance
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    I first heard about Tim O'Conner's book "You Can Afford to Be a Pilot" when he mentioned it on the old forums. I bought a copy and just finished reading it. It's well worth the price for a newb like myself.

    I also just finished "The Untouchables" about the SR-71. Neat book as well.

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    EAA has one free eBook published here: http://www.eaa.org/ebooks/

    It's worth a read if only for the appendix where Mal (an accountant who kept meticulous financial records of 50 years of flying) details what each of his airplanes cost him to own and operate. Proves the old adage that "there's only one o between money and Mooney".
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    Probably more than you wanted:
    http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronauti...-astronautics/

    MIT has a lot of coursework and course materials free online. :-) This link is for the aero engineering stuff. (I just started into it.) The link below shows everything they have:
    http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
    Richard Johnson, EAA #395588

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    MIT courses are excellent.

    Another bunch of courses funded by Government of India are here: http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd?ob=5#g/p

    Don't forget to click "Load more".

    Partially off-topic, but very useful. I am watching embedded systems lectures now: http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd...77C301A37CEF76

    You may find many lectures of aeronautics in YouTube for free. Wow! Fantastic!
    Last edited by Commodore; 08-11-2011 at 09:59 AM.

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    Ok, so this is from a while back, before computer graphics, a spreadsheet on every desktop, and CFD for the masses, but a good read for homebuilders considering "improving" their airplane:
    http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...peed_econo.php
    Murphy's 13th: Every solution breeds new problems...

    http://www.spoonworld.com

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