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There are many excellent texts covering aircraft design from a variety of perspectives. Some of these are aimed at specific audiences ranging from practising aerospace engineers, to engineering students, to amateur airplane builders. Others cover specialized aspects of the subject such as undercarriage or propulsion system design. Some of these are quite detailed in their presentation of the design process while others are very general in scope. Some are overviews of all the basic aeronautical engineering subjects that come together in the creation of a design.

E. B. Jones’s writings on instrument technology go back at least to 1953. He was something of a pioneer in producing high level material that could guide those studying his subjects. He had had both practical experience of his subject and had taught it at college, and this enabled him to lay down a foundation that could be built on for more than forty years. I must express my thanks that the first edition of the Instrumentation Reference Book, which E. B. Jones’s work was molded into, has sold well from 1988 to 1994. This book has been accepted as one of the Butterworth-Heinemann series of reference books-a goodly number of volumes covering much of technology. Such books need updating to keep abreast of developments, and this first updating calls for celebration!