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Buying these books...anything I shouldn't bother with/get instead?

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Inverted Vantage

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Hey everyone :) So I'm pretty set on the theory and aerodynamics bits (at least book-wise; still need a bit more time to figure everything out completely)...so to begin getting a better idea of the structural aspect, I was going to order some books on the subject. After doing some research on this forum, I came up with these titles; are there any others I should grab (doing a composite aircraft)?

Design for Safety - David B. Thurston

Stress Without Tears: A primer on aircraft-stress analysis requiring no advanced mathematics - Tom Rhodes Ph.D

Composite Airframe Structures - Michael Chun-Yu Niu (Gonna save this for later, it's the most expensive of the lot).

Understanding Aircraft Composite Construction, Second Edition - Zeke Smith

and

Advanced Composite Techniques - Zeke Smith

Thank you :)
 
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