Abstract
THIS American volume is essentially a tutorial or class text-book of the type that has not yet made extensive appearance in the field of English aeronautical literature. It treats the subject in logically arranged chapters, each one ending with a number of examples. These are both of the kind that emphasizes the theory already explained, and those giving the technical application of the subject-matter of that chapter. References in these questions to the relevant parts in the discussions, by means of a decimal system of numbering the paragraphs and conclusions reached, make the whole book extremely easy to follow, in a tutorial sense. As an examination crammer it is splendid ; whether it is advisable to spoon-feed a student to such an extent is another matter.
Elementary Applied Aerodynamics
By Prof. Paul E. Hemke. (Prentice-Hall Aeronautical Engineering Series.) Pp. viii + 231. (New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.; London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 26s. net.
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Elementary Applied Aerodynamics. Nature 161, 544 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161544a0
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