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Basic Navigation

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Download Options

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Please note: some interactive features are only visible in web-enabled versions of this book.  Features that have been removed in offline formats should be replaced with a warning and link to the online-only content.

Search Feature

In the upper right of the webbook, above the book’s title, there will either be a search box with a magnifying glass symbol, or a menu button that looks like three parallel lines.  If you open the drop-down menu, the search function will be available there.

This is a full-text search of the book and will return the chapters where the word appears.  If you need to find a specific phrase, put the phrase in quotations.  For example, “lift capability” will search for the phrase rather than the words lift and capability separately.

Special Features In This Book

This textbook includes some special features that only work, or work best, within the webbook version.

  • Links: This book has been enhanced with links out to other webpages and resources.  These are designed to enrich your learning of the material and provide additional content.  As a general rule, additional content outside of this book is not owned or maintained by Embry-Riddle, the textbook author, or your faculty member.
  • H5P Activities: This book includes interactive quizzes using a program called H5P.  These are only available in the webbook version of your text.

License

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Introduction to Aerospace Flight Vehicles Copyright © 2022 by J. Gordon Leishman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.