Introduction To Flight (Third Edition) by John D Anderson, Jr

This book is an introduction to aerospace engineering from both the technological and historical points of view. It is written to appeal to several groups of people:

(1) students of aerospace engineering in their freshman or sophomore years in college who are looking for a comprehensive introduction to their profession,

(2) advanced high school seniors who simply want to learn what aerospace engineering is all about,

(3) both college undergraduate and graduate students who want to obtain a wider perspective on the glories, the intellectual demands, and the technical maturity of aerospace engineering, and ( 4) working engineers who simply want to obtain a firmer grasp on the fundamental concepts and historical traditions that underlie their profession.