For many people, the math involved in being a pilot is downright intimidating. Even the textbook can be scary. One way to take the edge off is to make the textbook particularly interesting to aspiring aviators — for instance, by putting an attractive woman in aviator sunglasses and a bikini top on the front cover.

That’s what two instructors at Green River Community College in Kent, Wash., chose to do with “Aviation FUNdamentals,” a new textbook covering aviation math.

“The concept of the book is that fun is the key to good learning,” explains co-author Curt Scott. “Learning will keep you young forever, so the cover of the book emphasizes fun, youth and vitality and aviation. The real reason anyone flies — to have fun, enjoy life, and squeeze all the goodness out of life that one can — should be inherent in the cover.”

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