Aircraft and aviation Books

Hello pilots! Welcome to the fascinating world of Aviation. This is the first step of what will be an exciting adventure throughout the career of an Airplane pilot. Whether for sports or commercial purposes, we will develop each stage of our learning,...

Inglés Aeronáutico, propone una metodología diferente al resto de los manuales de ingles que abundan en el mercado. En primera instancia propone conocer las exigencias de OACI para comprender su importancia y entender cuales son los puntos necesarios a...

Flying has been man's desire since the dawn of mankind when he contemplated the flying of birds looking up at the sky. Millennia passed until he finally decided to dare to stop contemplating the birds and start his passion and primitive instinct of...

Conventional navigation is dependent upon ground-based radio navigation aids. It has been the mainstay of aviation for the last years. Pilots, operators, and manufacturers are all familiar with the associated technology, avionics, instrumentation,...

With the constant technological advance in the aeronautical industry, aircraft have evolved in speed, performance, designs and size. Since the beginning of time, unmanned flying machines, as they were called at the time, were not considered part of...

The night flight type rating is based, purely and exclusively, on the abilities of a pilot to adapt to a flight without visibility, in situations of visibility beyond the usual ones that he can experience during the day. Night flight and instrumental...

Welcome to a new edition of the most successful collection of aeronautical books in America. At the request of readers around the world, we have created this magnificent literary work about everything that a pilot in training must learn about one of the...

Due to the constant technological advancements in the aeronautical industry, the growth of all airports in the world is constant. An airport is home to every pilot, his own home, his personal space, his workplace and as such he must know it perfectly to...

Global megatrends are the disruptive forces that are shaping the world of tomorrow and aviation organizations will not be spared. Rapid urbanization, climate change, economic shifts of power, and various other forces will bring with it not only risks but...

Originally created for NASA in 1969 by prime contractor Grumman, this Lunar Module Vehicle Familiarization Manual was mandatory reading for Apollo astronauts, contractors and NASA support staff. This version of the manual describes the so-called ELM, or...

The author, an aircraft wreckologist, together with several other like-minded friends, has investigated 30 crash sites in the Western States, both military and civilian, covering the period from World War II to the recent present. Together with hundreds...

On January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, N72EX, being operated by Island Express Helicopters Inc. as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 on-demand flight, crashed into terrain in Calabasas, California. The pilot and the eight...

Composite mechanisms are composed of simple mechanisms combined into new mechanisms with improved characteristics and functions. Bearing the benefits of easy manufacturing and low cost, they have in use as early as the south-pointing chariot in ancient...

The Presidential PlaneA pictorial history of aircraft used by our presidents, and of the units serving them.For three decades, the White House has been sprouting wings. Six Presidential planes classed "Official" and some others too colorful to...

A fascinating insight into a side of Fiji that is rarely seen.The book tells of the author's life as a 'local European' growing up in a depressed suburb of Fiji's capital, Suva during the dying days of the Colonial era, attending local...

Ce livre sur les opérations de drones offre un guide complet visant à consolider les informations sur la technologie des drones, les réglementations, les protocoles de sécurité et les meilleures pratiques. Il vise à fournir aux lecteurs une compréhension...

Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Force is a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the air force and the emerging aviation industry in PRC. The author has made a bold effort to trace the changing character of...

The Northrop Grumman (formerly Ryan Aeronautical) RQ-4 Global Hawk (known as Tier II+ during development) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Air Force and Navy and the German Air Force as a surveillance aircraft.The Northrop...

It is increasingly important for drone pilots to log their flight data, both to demonstrate their experience and to record training received. Using the UAV Pilot Logbook allows you to accurately and completely log these personal flight data. To record...

The immense, global transportation and logistics sector is vital to businesses of all types. This carefully-researched book covers exciting trends in supply chain and logistics management, transportation, just in time delivery, warehousing, distribution,...

Maryland is home to a number of aviation firsts: the first manned balloon ascent in the Western Hemisphere in 1784, the first aircraft carrier during the Civil War, the first airport and flight school at College Park, and the first commuter airline. The...

To fly as the hawk and eagle has been mankind's dream for centuries. Modern sailplanes make soaring and gliding flight possible, and with them, humans can fly higher, faster, and farther than the greatest of birds, using only an invisible force of nature...

During the horror and conflict of World War II, a fictional radio character named Captain Midnight stormed his way into the consciousness of American radio listeners. Captain Midnight (a.k.a. Charles J. Albright) was a vigorous, mature figure whom...

Whether piloting a plane and enjoying the panorama below or watching a model you built soar into the blue among the clouds above, flying is always an adventure.Tex Newman looks back at his love affair with airplanes in this book, starting as a boy...

For nearly a century, San Diego has been a hub of aviation development, air power, and flying adventure. The city's ideal weather and protected bay allowed San Diego to have an aviation history unrivaled by any local community. From the pioneering days...

Following the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915, a unique flight research operations division was established at the nation's first civilian aeronautics research laboratory, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory...

Californians were panicked by the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, and civilian flights within 200 miles of the coast were immediately terminated. Airfields were commandeered and new ones hastily built. One of these was the Lomita Flight Strip,...

Since flying its first mail flight on October 1, 1926, Northwest Airways, now known as Northwest Airlines, has grown to become one of the world's leading airlines. Northwest's legacy of leadership in the aviation industry began with its foundation in the...

1. MOTIVATION In many physical situations, a plant model is often provided with a qualitative or quantitative measure of associated model uncertainties. On the one hand, the validity of the model is guaranteed only inside a...

No one else ever took a trip like this.Nearly 600 trips, actually. "But who cares," I thought, when first approached to edit the manuscript for this book "... about flying into every little airport in Indiana, then moving on to those in surrounding...

The Ceres agricultural aircraft was produced by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) in Australia from 1959 to 1963. A total of only 20 airframes were produced, but the Ceres was the first civil aircraft produced by CAC – which had previously...

By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing "death spirals," sky writing, "loop-the-loops," and night flights using phosphorus fireworks. He was a...

World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in...

Poland was in ruins after World War I. The fighting front had rolled through some areas more than seven different times, and the result was the almost complete destruction of the roads, railways, bridges, water systems, and power plants. The...

A unique and little-known chapter in World War II naval aviation history concerns the exploits of the scout-observation pilots who flew from the battleships and cruisers of the U.S. Navy. To carry out their missions, they were launched from their...

This book is a pictorial history of Chicago O'Hare International Airport from 1976 to 1996. The pictures show all the changes that Chicago O'Hare International Airport went through during that period, plus in between each chapter is some history of what...

When Britain's brilliant aircraft designer Geoffrey de Havilland first proposed the Mosquito, the Air Ministry greeted the idea with skepticism. Powered by twin Merlin engines, the bomber would be constructed almost entirely of wood and handle like a...

An outgrowth of the Third Reich's Emergency Fighter Program, the Messerschmitt P.1101 jet fighter featured a radical new design in which the sweep of the wing could be altered in flight. Captured by the Allies before it could be completed, the P.1101...

The legendary H-4 Hercules was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended to defeat the German U-boat threat, the plane was intended to be a super transport that could ferry 750 troops from the USA to Europe, and serve as an aerial...

Follow Mathew Northway as he takes his freshly rebuilt antique aircraft on a cross-country flight to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.You're in the cockpit as he navigates the passage through the Rockies,...