Clark Blanchard Millikan

preface: "In the nearly thirteen years since the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) was established, a large number of scientific and engineering problems in various fields related to aeronautics have been investigated under its auspices. In the spring of 1940 the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation requested the California Institute to cooperate in its expansion program by giving a course of aeronautical training to a large group of graduate non-aeronautical engineers. ~ The lecture notes were accordingly worked over into material for three volumes dealing with various aspects of aeronautical engineering. These three volumes, of which the present is the first, constitute the initial publications of the GALCIT series.

Written on the eve of World War II, this pioneering introduction to the science of aerodynamics is the work of one of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's founders. Clark B. Millikan's brief but intensive summary deals with the basic problems of aerodynamics, covering subjects essential to the background of any well-rounded aeronautical engineer. State-of-the-art at the time of its original publication, this volume will appeal to historians of science as well as to students of aerodynamics, who will welcome the chance to encounter this basic text by one of the foremost early members of their profession.
Starting with an overview of fundamental principles, the treatment examines the aerodynamicist's basic data and considers aspects of performance, longitudinal stability and control, and lateral stability and control. A selection of problems appears at the end of the book, in addition to a density and pressure altitude conversion chart and a composite performance chart.
includes index, B&W photos, drawings and diagrams, problems for each chapter, and 2 charts in rear pocket.… (mehr)