Bernard Etkin

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Bernard Etkin, C.M. (born 1918) is a Canadian academic and one of the world's recognized authorities on aircraft guidance and control.

Etkin was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto in the 1970's and is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. He was named to the Order of Canada as a Member in 2003 for his contributions to the aerospace industry in Canada.

Etkin's treatment of six degree of freedom (6-DoF) theory in "Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight" was unusual in being sufficiently general that it touched upon hypersonic flight and was usable in simulating Atmospheric reentry.

[edit] Works

• Etkin, Bernard (1972). Dynamics of Atmospheric Flight. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. ISBN 0-471-24620-4. 

[edit] References

• Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. University of Toronto Press.