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Author | : Brian McAllister |
Publisher | : Airlife Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Airplanes |
ISBN | : 9781853108655 |
Designed to help pilots at all levels of experience, this book concentrates on the full utilization of an aircraft's safe flight parameters. In particular, it covers the topics of low-speed flight during take-off and landing, and essential performance problems encountered in normal flying.
Author | : George C. Wilson |
Publisher | : Naval Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557509253 |
This chronicle of a year spent with the 100th test-pilot class at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides a look at the challenges and dangers facing naval test pilots in the 1990s.
Author | : Donald E. Keyhoe |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178720474X |
Originally published in 1928, this is a biography of Colonel Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), an aviation pioneer and hero of the times. Nicknamed “Slim,” “Lucky Lindy,” and “The Lone Eagle,” Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) emerged from virtual obscurity in 1927, at the age of 25, as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. He flew the distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) in a single-seat, single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis and became the 19th person to make a Transatlantic flight, the first being the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland in 1919; however, Lindbergh’s flight was almost twice the distance. The record-setting flight took 33 1⁄2 hours and resulted in Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, being awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. Considered one of the most admired figures of his time, author Donald E. Keyhoe presents a clear picture of the life and times of this fascinating man. This work will catapult the reader into a feeling of journeying across the country with Lindbergh himself.
Author | : Mort D. Mason |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780896585898 |
Imagine flying through wildly unpredictable weather conditions and over the unforgiving terrain of the Big Empty, with only yourself to rely on in life and death situations. This type of true grit adventure was a common occurrence for Alaska bush pilot Mort Mason, who encountered numerous white-knuckle situations while honing his skill--and his luck--in a profession that only a handful of pilots have had the stamina to endure. Flying the Alaska Wild is a heart-pounding, edge-of-the-chair collection of fascinating stories about the rough-and-tumble life of an Alaska bush pilot--straight from the pilot’s seat. Recounting thirty years of adventures, skilled storyteller Mason presents tales of his own experiences, and also tells the legendary stories of other old-time bush pilots.
Author | : Bernie Haskell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Aeronautics in agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780473293802 |
Author | : Thom van Dooren |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0231537441 |
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Author | : Andrew Glass |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0618984828 |
Humans have always wanted to fly. As soon as there were planes and cars, many people saw a combination as the next step for personal transportation, and visionary engineers and inventors did their best to make the flying car (or the roadable plane) a reality. This book is a breezy account of hybrid vehicles and their creators, and of the intense drive that kept bringing inventors back to the drawing board despite repeated failures and the dictates of common sense. Illustrated with archival photos, this entertaining survey takes readers back as far as Icarus and forward into the present day, with a look toward the future. Includes author's note, source notes, bibliography, index.
Author | : Peter Caygill |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184415226X |
Describes the design and testing of British fighter planes during World War II.
Author | : THOMPSON MILTON O |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1999-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Written by a a pilot/engineer participant of NASA's lifting body program, this book documents the adventures, triumphs, setbacks, and fun of pioneering a technology that allowed astronauts to accomplish lifting reentries and precise runway landings.
Author | : John Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781580072151 |
The photos in this edition are black and white. Author John Moore is the 'cat with nine lives' of the aviation fraternity. From his early days as a Naval Aviation Cadet he had a knack for flying but seemed to be in the neighborhood of disaster. Through two Korean combat tours, Navy test operations, his years as test pilot for North American Aviation, and the space program he was associated with many near and some real catastrophes.