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Author | : Arthur Pearcy |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A monumental history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its eventual transition into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), from NACA's pioneering high-performance aircraft research and design to NASA's testing of Mach 3 high-altitude aircraft.
Author | : Shirlee Smith Matheson |
Publisher | : Calgary : Detselig Enterprises |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : 9781550591767 |
This book captures stories from all sides of the flying field - old stories and new, heroic and imprudent, in peace and in war. These aviators and engineers have taken to the air in fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, and even in a space shuttle.
Author | : Dennis R. Jenkins |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2010-12-08 |
Genre | : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic |
ISBN | : 9781470025854 |
The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic flight that was invaluable to aeronautics and to developers of the space shuttle. This book describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them.-publisher description.
Author | : David T. Courtwright |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781585444199 |
A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.
Author | : Hans Wiesman |
Publisher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612002595 |
A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.
Author | : Dominic Walliman |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 183874987X |
Blast off with this new edition in the first book in the best selling Professor Astro Cat series! Featuring updated details about how rockets work, recent missions to Mars, space junk, and black holes. “Conducted by a cat in a retro-futuristic space suit, this tour of the solar system and beyond earns style points for both its illustrations and its selection of “Factoroids.” -Kirkus Reviews "Cute characters (such as the titular Professor Astro Cat and his assistant Astro Mouse) give a humorous, conversational tone to this nonfiction book's information about space, our solar system, and changing space exploration technology. Like the text, the book's browsable layout encourages readers to keep exploring. Overall, a great book to nurture interest in and wonder at the infinite possibilities of space." -The Horn Book "Both modern in its scientific spirit and with a sensibility modeled after the delightful mid-century children’s books from the Golden Age of space exploration, it tickles young readers - as well as their space-enchanted parents - into precisely that “palpable zest to make contact with the cosmos.” -Brain Pickings Professor Astro Cat is the smartest cat in the alley. He's got a degree in just about every discipline under the sun! Speaking of the sun, he happens to be specialist on that too, and Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space will tell you everything that there could be to know about our star, our planet, our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, and many more new insights into the ever-developing science of space and the outer reaches of the universe! The professor's made sure of that; he's a fastidious little feline! Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space also explores topics such as gravity, extraterrestrial life, time, and many other fascinating subjects that will take you and your children on a journey to the very frontiers of space!
Author | : Phylis Johnson |
Publisher | : Information Science Reference |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Journalism |
ISBN | : 9781799881407 |
Investigates the impact of emerging technologies in journalism and how audiences engage with these technologies and news content in innovative ways. Identity and community are analysed historically and culturally within the larger body of cultural and media studies.
Author | : Robert Lawson |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2018-03-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486829782 |
In this charmingly illustrated fantasy, a 4-inch-high boy climbs on the back of a friendly seagull and heads for Europe to quash a mad scientist's evil plan and do some sightseeing.
Author | : Richard P. Hallion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Flight |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William R. Burkett, Jr. |
Publisher | : AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2022-03-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1489592822 |
Science Fiction Encyclopedia described this as a "hard-edged" tale of the 24th-century conquest of Earth by an alien empire the humans had judged too stupid to pull off such a coup. Only a handful of humans escaped the effects of a mutated narcoleptic drug that put humanity into protracted hibernation. The battle to liberate Earth is fought by those few with the aid of a vengeful ghost called "Gremper" by the aliens. The action is fast and furious, while the genius general of the invading fleet goes slowly insane at the disruption of his well-laid plans. "A natural-born storyteller," said bestselling author Frank G. Slaughter. A classic reprint of a sci-fi masterpiece.