{"id":725,"date":"2019-02-25T23:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:50:43","slug":"book-review-roskams-airplane-war-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/book-review-roskams-airplane-war-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Roskam&#8217;s Airplane War Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Jan Roskam&#8217;s Airplane War Stories is a seriously good book. The lessons come in bite sized tales (&#8220;War Story #&#8221;) with the wonderful treat of providing the moral (&#8220;Lesson&#8221;) in his own words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5183ZBcQ9uL._SX380_BO1204203200_-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5183ZBcQ9uL._SX380_BO1204203200_-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5183ZBcQ9uL._SX380_BO1204203200_.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This book won&#8217;t teach you how to analyze aircraft -Dr. Roskam&#8217;s other books take that charge- but once you do know the mathematics, the concept, and the application, this book is a lot of fun to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first part of the book is a bit better than the later part. It is slightly disappointing that the book does not cover as many aircraft design topics with specific discussions of the aircraft features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Dr. Roskam for this and other books. The book is available through several sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>(primary) DARcorporation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darcorp.com\/\">https:\/\/www.darcorp.com\/<\/a><\/li><li>Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roskams-Airplane-War-Stories-Professional-ebook\/dp\/B01H5W4TDY\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roskams-Airplane-War-Stories-Professional-ebook\/dp\/B01H5W4TDY<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jan Roskam&#8217;s Airplane War Stories is a seriously good book. The lessons come in bite sized tales (&#8220;War Story #&#8221;) with the wonderful treat of providing the moral (&#8220;Lesson&#8221;) in his own words. This book won&#8217;t teach you how to analyze aircraft -Dr. Roskam&#8217;s other books take that charge- but once you do know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}