"[A] tour de force of a text. . . . An ambitious and important work. . . . [It] brings the material up to the minute, tackles more topics with more depth, buttresses its analysis with MATLAB examples, and still does a superb job of stimulating and informing the reader. . . . Its push toward computational synthesis does open a new door for this type of text."---John Hodgkinson, AIAA Journal

"This book provides a significant addition to the existing literature on flight mechanics. It deserves to be part of the library of scholars and practicing flight mechanics engineers alike."---Eric Feron, IEEE Control Systems