CONTENTS (PART 1) page
PREFACE 3
1 AIR IS A FLUID, WILL PUSH BACK 5
2 LIFT, DRAG and L/D 9
3 DEFINITIONS 12
4 WING STRUCTURE and DRAG – A BRIEF HISTORY 14
5 VISCOSITY and the BOUNDARY LAYER 20
6 THE STREAMLINE SPEED CONUNDRUM 23
7 BERNOULLI 25
8 INVISCID ANALYSIS 28
9 THE SEARCH for the BOUND VORTEX 31
10 GENTRY'S BATHTUB EXPERIMENT 37
11 THE WRAP-UP 39
POST SCRIPT 40
APPENDIX A: The Connoisseur’s guide to the airfoil 41
APPENDIX B: One-Upman’s guide to the Coanda 45
effect, vorticity and more on the design of airfoils
ILLUSTRATION SOURCES and CREDITS - PART 1 49
CONTENTS (PART 2) page
PREFACE 53
1 THE NEED FOR THRUST 55
2 THE NATURE OF THRUST 57
3 JET PROPULSION 60
4 THE WHEEL BEARING and the AIRSCREW 62
5 THE PROPELLER 68
6 NUMBER OF PROPELLER BLADES, etc. 73
7 THE TURBOJET 76
8 PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCY 84
9 THE TURBOFAN 88
10 THE TURBOPROP 92
11 WASP, MERLIN, MEREDITH and COOLING 95
12 THE WRAP-UP (and the FUTURE) 101
APPENDIX A: Jet thrust despite no increase in 104
total pressure
ILLUSTRATION SOURCES and CREDITS - PART 2 105