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viii Preface
of information that you can carry with you –
the secret is knowing where to look for the
rest.
More and more engineering information is
now available in electronic form and many
engineering students now use the Internet as
their first source of reference information for
technical information. This new Aeronautical
Engineer’s Data Book contains details of a
wide range of engineering-related websites,
including general ‘gateway’ sites such as the
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
(EEVL) which contains links to tens of
thousands of others containing technical infor­
mation, product/company data and aeronauti-
cal-related technical journals and newsgroups.
You will find various pages in the book
contain ‘quick guidelines’ and ‘rules of thumb’.
Don’t expect these all to have robust theoret­
ical backing – they are included simply
because I have found that they work. I have
tried to make this book a practical source of
aeronautics-related technical information that
you can use in the day-to-day activities of an
aeronautical career.
Finally, it is important that the content of
this data book continues to reflect the infor­
mation that is needed and used by student and
experienced engineers. If you have any sugges­
tions for future content (or indeed observations
or comment on the existing content) please
submit them to me at the following e-mail
address: aerodatabook@aol.com

Clifford Matthews