The simple science of flight : from insects to jumbo jets / Henk Tennekes.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1997Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. editionDescription: x, 137 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262700654
- 9780262700658
- 0262201054
- 9780262201056
- Wetten van de vliegkunst. English
- 629.1323 21
- TL570 .T4613 1997
Contents:
Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Wings According to Size -- 2. A Hard Day's Flight -- 3. In Wind and Weather -- 4. Flying with Finesse -- 5. Flying Playthings -- 6. The 747 and its Competitors -- Appendix: Flight Data for Selected Birds -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Translation of: Wetten van de vliegkunst.
"First English-language edition [published] 1996"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 133) and index.
Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Wings According to Size -- 2. A Hard Day's Flight -- 3. In Wind and Weather -- 4. Flying with Finesse -- 5. Flying Playthings -- 6. The 747 and its Competitors -- Appendix: Flight Data for Selected Birds -- Bibliography -- Index.
Translated from the Dutch.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
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