Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) available on February 07 2026 from Amazon for 12.61
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A reference for engineers and students, this volume devotes more than 300 pages to theoretical and experimental considerations. It progresses from elementary materials to methods used in the design of NACA low-drag airfoils, and it presents techniques for using wing-section data to predict wing characteristics. Requires differential and integral calculus and elementary mechanics. 1949 edition.
^Abbott, Ira H.; von Doenhoff, A. E. (2015). Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data, Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486605869 (revised Sep 2015)
^Abbott, Ira H.; von Doenhoff, A. E. (2012). 9780486605869, Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486605869 (revised Sep 2012)
^Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering: Theory of Wing Sections : Including a Summary of Airfoil Data by Ira H. Abbott and A. E. von Doenhoff (1959, Paperback, New Edition)ISBN 9780486605869 (revised Jul 2018)
^Ira H. AbbottTheory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering), Dover Publications. Amazon. ISBN 9780486605869 (revised Feb 2026)
This should be the first book on the shelf of any serious aircraft designer. The first half of the book is a review of classic airfoil theory, including all of the pertinent formulas. It is a bit dry and definitely not a textbook, but rather a comprehensive reference manual. Most people skip the text and buy the book for the second half, which is a compilation of all the basic NACA airfoils. Each airfoil shape is exactly described and includes graphs of performance data. This is a "must have" book for ..
I have worn out two copies of this in my professional days, and I am doing so again with my 'hobby' copy. It is much handier that the on-line references for NACA data and for doing the 'quick flip through' when thinking about design. It is not, however, for either the mathematicall un-initiated, nor for the first-time designer. The book is both thorough and rigorous in its treatment of the topics it covers. All in all, along with the other standard texts, it supplies the needed data ad information when t..
