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The following book is recommended for purchase:

Anderson, John D. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN: 007237350.
If you have the Second Edition, it will be acceptable though you will be missing some of the reading material.

The following books will also be used in the course:

Kuethe, Arnold, and Chuen-Yen Chow. Foundation of Aerodynamics. 5th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. ISBN: 0471129194.

Bertin, John J. Aerodynamics for Engineers. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN: 0130646334.

Moran, Jack. An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics. 1st ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0486428796.

Another useful book for its discussion of aircraft performance and dynamics would be:

Anderson, John D. Introduction to Flight. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN: 0072990716.