Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Aircraft Design (Cambridge Aerospace Series)

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672 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 12, 2010)
Language: English


Aircraft Design explores fixed winged aircraft design at the conceptual phase of a project. Designing an aircraft is a complex multifaceted process embracing many technical challenges in a multidisciplinary environment. By definition, the topic requires intelligent use of aerodynamic knowledge to configure aircraft geometry suited specifically to the customer's demands. It involves estimating aircraft weight and drag and computing the available thrust from the engine. The methodology shown here includes formal sizing of the aircraft, engine matching, and substantiating performance to comply with the customer's demands and government regulatory standards. Associated topics include safety issues, environmental issues, material choice, structural layout, understanding flight deck, avionics, and systems (for both civilian and military aircraft). Cost estimation and manufacturing considerations are also discussed. The chapters are arranged to optimize understanding of industrial approaches to aircraft design methodology. Example exercises from the author's industrial experience dealing with a typical aircraft design are included.

Book Description
Aircraft Design is a textbook for students, postgraduates, and professionals studying aircraft systems design. The singular aim is to prepare the reader for industry standard practices. The simplifications adopted for classroom usage are supported with explanations. Example exercises dealing with typical aircraft are provided from the author's vast experience.



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Portrait Photographer's Handbook

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Amherst Media, Inc. | 128 pages | PDF | Author: Bill Hurter
Combining time-tested practices with contemporary methods, this guidebook details the fine art of capturing formal and casual posed images. With advice and guidance from the finest and most decorated portrait and wedding photographers in the country, this instructional discusses subjects such as lighting in the studio and on location, improving improvisational shooting techniques, and how to retouch images in the post-production process to create truly flawless looks. A chapter addressing the common problems in taking portraitures—from working with subjects with glasses to subjects that vary in size, facial features, and skin tone—is also included.

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Visions of Heaven - The Dome in European Architecture

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Victoria Hammond "Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture"
Princeton Architectural Press | English | 2005-10-06 | ISBN: 1568985495 | 192 pages | PDF

There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second to the early twentieth century, Stephenson's work amounts to a veritable typology of the cupola. His images present complex geometrical structures, rich stucco decorations, and elaborate paintings as they have never been seen before. Brilliantly calibrated exposures reveal details and colors that would otherwise remain hidden in these dimly lit spaces. Visions of Heaven shows more than 120 images, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a nineteenth-century synagogue in Hungary.

With a full-page color plate of the dome of a great European monument on every page, turning the pages of this volume is not unlike pressing one's eye to a kaleidoscope, with ribs, mosaics, stone, gilt, stucco, wood, or painting spinning in patterns around an ever- present still center. The captions note the name of the monument and its date or dates of construction. A chapter by Victoria Hammond (an art historian in Australia) describing domes in European architecture follows the photos.

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Origin of Beverages

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James Williams "Origin of Beverages"
Netlibrary Inc | English | 2009-07-16 | ISBN: 9380075022 | 128 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB


A short, airy review of various alcohols-beer, wine, sake, hard liquor.

Table of Contents:
1. Origin & Making of Whisky
2. Origin & Production of Champagne
3. Origin & Production of Rum
4. Origin & Production of Sake
5. Origin of Beer
6. Origin of Cognac
7. Origin of Gin
8. Origin of Tequila
9. Origin of Vodka
10. Origin of Wine

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