Aerronautical engineering books.

“I am going to do a full time aeronautical engineering course(undergrdt) so can you suggest any good aeronautics books.”

Good luck to you… when I started my course I was advised to read “Aircraft Flight” By R Barnard and D Philpott… its got the basics of pretty much everything to do with how aircraft fly…. you will however get along on the course just fine without it… as I discovered when I got there very few people actually bothered to read it!

As for text books… your lecturers will advise you which to buy… lecturers sometimes use textbook problems as tutorial questions… however be warned… some lecturers will have friends who have written the texbook… and they’ll be trying to sell them for them (Fell for that one once… worst £40 I ever spent!)… Your university library will have copies of all the text books you need… mine did… its just a bit hard to get a copy around exam and coursework times!

Where are you studying?? I graduated in 2005 from Loughborough… my knowledge of books is out of date as well… Another warning… Aero Eng has high drop out rate… my course started with 120 people… and finished with around 70 3 years later!!

I would imagine that your first year reading list will mostly comprise of books that cover the basics that will be required for aeronautics e.g. Fluid Mechanics. Besides, most University book shops or major chain stores near to universities e.g. Waterstones, tend to do student discout during the first two weeks or so of the Autumn semester.

Regards,

Dan

Hi Aimans welcome to the forum!!
I am afraid my book knowledge is a LITTLE out of date.
Where are you doing your course and can they supply you with a reading list??

Regards Baz

I did Air Transport Engineering BSc. (Hons.) I would recomend you wait until you get the books recommended by the lecturers, they will have set lists and books will be available in the University book shop. Until you have that you may waste your money buying books that don’t cover the subjetcs you need to.

Hi Aimans welcome to the forum!!
I am afraid my book knowledge is a LITTLE out of date.
Where are you doing your course and can they supply you with a reading list??

Regards Baz