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Author | : Patrick Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781594480041 |
Though we routinely take to the air, for many of us flying remains a mystery. Few of us understand the how and why of jetting from New York to London in six hours. How does a plane stay in the air? Can turbulence bring it down? What is windshear? How good are the security checks? Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Salon.com's popular column, "Ask the Pilot," unravels the secrets and tells you all there is to know about the strange and fascinating world of commercial flight. He offers: A nuts and bolts explanation of how planes fly Insights into safety and security Straight talk about turbulence, air traffic control, windshear, and crashes The history, color, and controversy of the world's airlines The awe and oddity of being a pilot The poetry and drama of airplanes, airports, and traveling abroad In a series of frank, often funny explanations and essays, Smith speaks eloquently to our fears and curiosities, incorporating anecdotes, memoir, and a life's passion for flight. He tackles our toughest concerns, debunks conspiracy theories and myths, and in a rarely heard voice dares to return a dash of romance and glamour to air travel.
Author | : Anita Shreve |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316025674 |
Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?
Author | : Scott Todd |
Publisher | : Pilot Handbook Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9780984081639 |
The Pilot's Handbook is an illustrated how-to guide of procedures, operations, communications, and reference for all general-aviation pilots. This convenient, cockpit-handy manual features in-depth and specific procedural descriptions intended for reading on the ground, and checklists on heavy tabbed section dividers for use in the air. Hundreds of full-color illustrations illuminate the explanations, and a spiral binding allows for folding over or full opening. It includes descriptions of airports and airspaces, flying into and from Class B and Class C airports, uncontrolled-airport procedures, communications and radio failures, approach briefings including effective use of Jeppesen and FAA charts, and problems and emergencies. Divided into VFR and IFR sections, the latter is a guide to instrument clearances and procedures, including the common ILS, VOR and GPS, and also refreshers for the less frequently used NDBs, DME arcs, procedure turns and course reversals, and holds.
Author | : Liesbet Slegers |
Publisher | : Av2 Fiction Readalong 2018 |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781489661968 |
Introduces the responsibilities and tasks given to airline pilots.
Author | : A.N.J. Blain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351810146 |
Airline pilots in various countries around the world have made determined use of industrial action. The use of strike action by the pilots challenges the view that militant trade unionism is confined to lower-paid workers and is associated with a left-wing political orientation. This phenomenon provides the author with an opportunity for singling out the basic factors underlying attitudes and behaviour in industrial relations. His starting point is a ‘systems model’ of industrial relations which is submitted to critical examination and refined, enhancing its usefulness as a research methodology. In particular he stresses the importance of personality elements in the parties to the disputes. The book, first published in 1972, also provides an analysis of the development of the airlines and their institutions.
Author | : Silas Wright |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2024-04-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368864629 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author | : Lucasfilm Press |
Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1368050743 |
Read along with Star Wars! Meet the pilots and characters from Star Wars Resistance, an exciting new animated adventure series set before the events of The Force Awakens about Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order (airing Fall 2018 on Disney Channel).
Author | : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Meteorology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Theodore Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Meteorology in aeronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Canal Zone |
ISBN | : |