Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 12)

As an aerospace engineer I have read many books on aircraft dynamics and design, but this is the best text I have gone through so far, especially on rotorcraft. The explanation and derivation are well presented and easy to follow. If there is only one book you want to stock in your library on rotorcraft, this should be it.

Excellent clear detailed analysis - not surprising it has become the landmark standard analysis in this field.

I am a retired aerospace engineer. When I was employed as an aero engineer, I considered myself to be a strength guy but I held a few different job positions and one of them was a job position titled "Production Support Engineer" on a specific helicopter platform. Because of my job position, I felt that it was necessary for me to understand the basic fundamentals of helicopter aerodynamics. I ordered this textbook and I considered it to be by far the very best textbook on the subject of helicopter aerodynamics. It has problems to solve at the end of each chapter which is great but that is one of the drawbacks. There are no answers to the problems provided anywhere in the textbook so I wasn't really sure if I was really on the right track when I went through the problems.

This is the Bible for all the rotorcraft learners.

I used this for my V/STOL class that only focused on helicopters. Interesting information, but can be confusing at times.

The pages has some waves in the first and last pages. Other than that the book is fine.

Clear and easy to understand illustrations. A good buy if you are really interested in the preliminary of the fundamentals of rotorcraft theory