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Thomas suffers from this a little, too, but he leaves it for the beginning of the book and then dives into specialized knowledge.

IMHO, such material would be better left out altogether, and turn this book into a pure niche design reference for sailplanes. The author covers a lot of material, but not in enough depth to really do any good. For example, for a specialized book on sailplane design, we really don't need yet another overview of basic aerodynamics, nor three entire chapters on airplane stability, especially if it's going to be so truncated.

I think it tries to cover too much aviation theory and too little specialized knowledge specific to sailplanes.

It just makes reading the book more laborious than it might otherwise be. Whomever did the work either isn't a native speaker of English, familiar with aircraft design, or both.

The text suffers a bit in translation from Italian to English.

A few "gripes", although again, it's a "fair-to-good" book overall.