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Title: Understanding the Gyroplane (569B) by Paul Bergen Abbott ISBN: 1-888723-01-7 Publisher: The Abbott Company Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very readable, but....
Comment: .
.....this is a book whose explanations are largely over-simplified, and in some cases not in accordance with good engineering practice.
Paul Bergen Abbott is an eminent writer on autogyros/gyroplanes - the aircraft type for which his colleague, the late Igor Bensen, coined the trademark "Gyrocopter". For many years he was editor of the PRA magazine, and did a stirling job, but I would suggest that this popular account is seriously flawed when it tries to explain aircraft flight principles. My own copy is full of pencilled corrections.
One example is the directional stability item in Chapter 8, which is based on a wrong assumption that applies in only one case. Misleading to the newcomer, and potentially fatal if used to assess stability.
A good read, but do not take the explanations too seriously.
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Title: Rotorcraft Flying Handbook: FAA - H808321 by Federal Aviation Administration ISBN: 1560274042 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: From Autogiro to Gyroplane : The Amazing Survival of an Aviation Technology by Bruce H. Charnov ISBN: 1567205038 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Gyroplane Flight Manual by Paul Bergen Abbott ISBN: 1888723009 Publisher: Abbott Company Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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