RCadvisor's Model Airplane Design Made Easy: The Simple Guide to Designing R/C Model Aircraft or Build Your Own Radio Control Flying Model Plane,   ISBN:9780982261323

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VERY THEORITICAL WITH VERY FEW ILLUSTRATIONS TO ENABLE A BEGINNER LIKE ME TO DECIPHER AND CONVERT THE INFO INTO FRUITFUL ACTION....I AM VERY DOUBTFUL OF EVER PRODUCING A WORKING MODEL BASED ONLY ON THIS BOOK.

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I was looking for a modern design book for model aircraft. I have had some experience with flight models for simulators, and this book gives me all I need to adapt my experience to R/C modeling. With no experience at all this book would be just right for anyone with a reasonable engineering knowledge. It bombards the reader with good technical data and formulae, but in an easy way to absorb. It is also quite entertaining to read. I recommend it and would say every page has very good information.

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Over the years I've accumulated most of the books on Model Aircraft design - from Frank Zaic's 1987 edn. of "Circular Airflow" to the latest version of Martin Simon's "Model Aircraft Aerodynamics". This one joins the list of the very few (like those two and the somewhat brain-testing but excellent stuff by Ferdinando Gale) that get top marks. Having long ago trained as an Engineer I have a soft spot for numbers that are useful and Carlos has brought off that very difficult task: writing about quantitative things that are complex with just the right amount of numbers and formulae. Any modeller with the most basic math (think multiplying and dividing and fractions!) could follow his descriptions which are deceptively simple and easy. This book is for non-experts because it is a great read, easily accessible and welcoming but make no mistake this is an expert book by an expert. Carlos has a rare ability to distill in personable and direct prose some very important stuff. And it's not just classical aerodynamics. He covers a huge range of topics from airfoils to adhesives, particularly some that get little attention elsewhere like propeller performance, in a friendly format by focusing on the key information. His explanation of lift is a classic example. Just 3 short elegant paragraphs covers the essence of the Bernoulli explanation with a fourth noting that there is an alternative. For practical modelers his ""It is not a bad way of looking at the phenomenon, but it is less useful when doing computations than the pressure differential explanation" beats the many pages of circulation theory and bound vortices others labor over. I can't recommend this book highly enough. Think of it as the Cognac of Model Aerodynamic texts. Instantly accessible without years of experience in fine wine tasting but with enormous depth and content. An extra point for recognizing that not everyone lives in the US and metric units are important too. :-)

It's an absolute bargain at the price.

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Clear easy to understand information. Book is well organized and logical. Topics provide understandable answers to many model airplane design questions. If you build, design, or fly model airplanes this book is well worth the price.

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Thanks M.Reyes for this good tool ! lots of good link and open mind opinion.