Luis Manuel Braga da Costa Campos is the director of the Center for Aeronautical and Space Science and Technology at Lisbon Technical University in Portugal.
... the book will be useful to engineers who do not want to learn so much on mathematical results but who are mostly interested by the resolution of concrete mechanical problems. The length of the book is not a problem as the many tables may help the reader to and quickly the solution of the problem he is looking for. - Alain Brillard in Zentralblatt MATH