Customer Reviews:
 First Edition? Five Stars July 18, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The FIRST edition of Aircraft Structures by David J. Peery may be the best book on aircraft stress analysis ever written. Don't make the mistake of buying the second edition.
Why someone would make a classic six chapters and roughly one hundred fifty pages lighter ... is one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Would you add a mustache to the Mona Lisa and tear off a good portion of the painting? Would you delete chapters from The Grapes of Wrath? Would someone take a hammer to the Pieta? (OK, never mind that one ... but wait ... Lazlo Toth was ruled INSANE!)
I suggest that people go to Powell's, Abebooks or Alibris for the genuine article ...the "real McCoy" ... the FIRST edition. The mystery of the second edition must involve sheep, hip waders and photos.
The first edition of Aircraft Structures has it all ... shear flow in unsymmetrical beams, beams with varying cross sections, correction of wing bending moments for sweepback, distribution of concentrated loads to thin webs, loads on fuselage bulkheads, analysis of wing ribs, shear flow in tapered webs, differential bending, cutouts in semi-monocoque structures, trusses with single redundancy, trusses with multiple redundancy, circular fuselage rings, irregular fuselage rings, torsion of multicell box beams, beam shear in multicell structures, analysis of practical multicell structures, shear lag, spanwise variation of warping deformation ... in short ... fun for the whole family.
The comparison of Fourier's Series Method to Schrenk's Method for Spanwise Air-Load Distribution is worth the price of the book.
Note: Errata in the first edition, Section 8.3, page 192: Check to see if q ba = 188 lb/in, q ac = 288 lb/in, q bc = 652 lb/in ... instead of 274 lb/in, 374 lb/in and 566 lb/in respectively.
You are much better off buying the first edition.
Mange Takk!
Not the original!!!!! February 11, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Do not buy the 1982 edition. The 1950s book buy Peery in a legend in aircraft structural analysis. The 1982 edition was stripped by Azar, and is not worth the money.
 Better Off with the Original Edition... September 2, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As with Donaldson's homage (or rewrite) of Rivello, the original Perry is far superior to the update by Azar. Perry's treatment of spanwise lift distribution alone is reason to pick up the 1950 edition versus Azar's stripped down clunker. I think the author was up against a page limitation, and simply tossed a few hundred pages.
 An essential and readable introduction to aircraft structure November 19, 1998
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is an update of a classic and excellent textbook on aircraft structures. I recommend it highly.
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