Aircraft designers should heed lessons from the past, write Malcolm Abzug
and Eugene Larrabee in Airplane Stability and Control, a historical survey of
the art and science of flying straight. Find out why the F-117A stealth fighter
was dubbed the Hopeless Diamond. Published by Cambridge University Press,
£40/$54.95, ISBN 0521552362.
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