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  • John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
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    John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

    On May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy declared:  "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Over his remaining time in the White...
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    Space to Grow
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    Space to Grow

    Your guide using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's...
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  • You're The Captain
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    You're The Captain

    The first ever puzzle book from FlightRadar24 At any one time there are nearly 20,000 flights in the sky, and more than 75 million flights a year – and, since 2006, the website Flightradar24 has kept its beady eye on them all. For the first time ever,...
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    Across The Airless Wilds

    "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed...
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  • Return of the Dambusters
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    Return of the Dambusters

    (Previously published as ‘After the Flood’)Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron after the flood. RAF 617 Squadron’s destruction of the dams at the heart of...
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  • Hidden Figures
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    Hidden Figures

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times BestsellerSet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil...
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  • The Future Air Navigation System (FANS) The Future Air Navigation System (FANS)
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    The Future Air Navigation System (FANS)

    In view of the increase in air traffic, there has been a great deal of work by the nations of the world, under the auspices of ICAO, toward developing the concept for a future air navigation infrastructure to serve worldwide civil aviation efficiency...
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    Aircraft Engineering Principles

    The ideal textbook for anyone working towards a career in aircraft maintenance engineeringWritten to meet the needs of aircraft maintenance certifying staff, this book covers the basic knowledge requirements of ECAR 66 (previously JAR-66) for all...
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  • How Not To Spoil Your Day How Not To Spoil Your Day
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    How Not To Spoil Your Day

    The experience of twenty-eight years of flying gave Patrick Harrington plenty to remember. Rather than 'disappearing in the ether' which, as he says, happens with many retired pilots, he explains how he began to be interested in flying, how he...
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  • I Think and Write, Therefore You Are Confused I Think and Write, Therefore You Are Confused
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    I Think and Write, Therefore You Are Confused

    The importance of good documentation can build a strong foundation for any thriving organization. This reference text provides a detailed and practical treatment of technical writing in an easy to understand manner.The text covers important topics...
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  • How to Become a Pilot - Demystiflying How to Become a Pilot - Demystiflying
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    How to Become a Pilot - Demystiflying

    You can learn how to fly and become a pilot of your own adventure. It's not too late. You don't have to change your life direction. People from all walks of life have become pilots, and not just through the military or the airlines. In...
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  • Competency-Based Education in Aviation Competency-Based Education in Aviation
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    Competency-Based Education in Aviation

    Whether a trainee is studying air traffic control, piloting, maintenance engineering, or cabin crew, they must complete a set number of training 'hours' before being licensed or certified. The aviation industry is moving away from an hours-based to a...
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  • Aviation Safety and Security Aviation Safety and Security
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    Aviation Safety and Security

    This book focuses on ways to better manage and prevent aircraft-based homicide events while in flight using alternate technology to replace the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and/or Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) functions. While these events are...
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    Flying Alone

    Strap yourself into the copilot seat and hold on for a ride you’ll never forget!Starting at the small local airport, the aviation world swallowed Beth whole, and the next five years of her life were as turbulent as an airplane in a thunderstorm,...
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  • The Saturn V F-1 Engine The Saturn V F-1 Engine
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    The Saturn V F-1 Engine

    The launch of Sputnik in 1957 not only began the space age, it also showed that Soviet rockets were more powerful than American ones. Within months, the US Air Force hired Rocketdyne for a feasibility study of an engine capable...
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  • Satellite Systems Satellite Systems
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    Satellite Systems

    This reader-friendly resource covers the broad spectrum of satellite principles and their associated technologies. While other books limit their coverage to specialized services or to satellite payloads such as ...
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  • Robotic Exploration of the Solar System Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
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    Robotic Exploration of the Solar System

    This fascinating book is a must-have text for space enthusiasts with an engineering bent. It is a detailed history of unmanned missions that have explored our solar system. The subject is treated wherever possible from an...
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  • Brooklyn, Buck Rogers and Me Brooklyn, Buck Rogers and Me
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    Brooklyn, Buck Rogers and Me

    With long personal experience from the pioneer days of missiles and space, underwater simulation adventures at St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the electronic revolution the author tells of his struggle to complete an engineering education...
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  • Advanced Mechanical Vibrations Advanced Mechanical Vibrations
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    Advanced Mechanical Vibrations

    Advanced Mechanical Vibrations: Physics, Mathematics and Applications provides a concise and solid exposition of the fundamental concepts and ideas that pervade many specialised disciplines where linear engineering vibrations are involved. Covering the...
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  • Secret Science and the Secret Space Program Secret Science and the Secret Space Program
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    Secret Science and the Secret Space Program

    There are areas of science that are off limits to the public and are not taught in our universities. The science and technology of anti-gravity and extracting energy from space itself was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century by scientists...
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  • A Cycle Of Celestial Objects A Cycle Of Celestial Objects
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    A Cycle Of Celestial Objects

    ""A Cycle of Celestial Objects: Observed, Reduced and Discussed"" is a book written by William Henry Smyth and first published in 1881. The book is a collection of Smyth's observations of various celestial objects, including stars, nebulae, and galaxies,...
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  • IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems
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    IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems

    This workshop proceedings introduces the latest innovations and trends in IP-based applications and satellite networking. It explains many aspects of advanced satellite networking systems, such as deployment of IPv6 over satellites, working with WLAN and...
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  • 71 Lessons From The Sky 71 Lessons From The Sky
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    71 Lessons From The Sky

    Learn from the experiences of other helicopter pilots.Packed with seventy one powerful lessons, 71 Lessons From The Sky is a new survival guide for helicopter pilots detailing real incidents and accidents taken from the FAA (USA), CHIRP (UK) and CASA...
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  • Science with a Vengeance Science with a Vengeance
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    Science with a Vengeance

    The exploration of the upper atmosphere was given a jump start in the United States by German V-2 rockets - Hitler's "vengeance weapon" - captured at the end of World War II. The science performed with these missiles was...
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  • Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow
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    Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow

    A good understanding of turbulent compressible flows is essential to the design and operation of high-speed vehicles. Such flows occur, for example, in the external flow over the surfaces of supersonic aircraft, and in the...
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  • Missile Guidance and Control Systems Missile Guidance and Control Systems
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    Missile Guidance and Control Systems

    Airborne Vehicle Guidance and Control Systems is a broad and wide- angled engineering and technological area for research, and continues to be important not only in military defense systems but also in industrial process...
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  • Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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    Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Third Edition surveys the basics of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), from sensors, controls, and automation to regulations, safety procedures, and human factors.
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  • Human Factors in Flight Instructor's Guide Human Factors in Flight Instructor's Guide
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    Human Factors in Flight Instructor's Guide

    Designed to help the instructor to present concepts in human factors, this guide is presented in lecture-note format with each unit outlining performance objectives, questions and answers, references to pages in the main text and large-print summaries...
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  • Reviews of Plasma Physics Reviews of Plasma Physics
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    Reviews of Plasma Physics

    'The review articles in this series are invariably of a high standard, and those contained in the most recent volumes to appear are no exception....an excellent fund of detailed and reasonably up-to-date information.'...
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  • Box Kites to Boeings
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    Box Kites to Boeings

    Australian  history of aviation has borne witness to some of the world’s most audacious daredevils and dreamers. Their extraordinary exploits would read more like fiction had they not all been so meticulously document as fact.   ‘Once you...
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  • Flying Green
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    Flying Green

    Can flying be green?Everyone loves to travel, and the industry's room for growth seems almost limitless - except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades,...
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    Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (2023)
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    Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (2023)

    THE ESSENTIAL FULL-COLOR HANDBOOK FOR PILOTS, IN A NEW 2023 EDITION!This official Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handbook provides basic knowledge essential for pilots on topics like decision-making, aerodynamics, flight controls, weather theory,...
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    Ground Control
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    Ground Control

    In the 1960s and '70s, America spent $24 billion (around $150 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon and 'win' the space race. And while humans took their first steps on an extraterrestrial landscape, protesters at Cape...
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