Aircraft and aviation Books

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அறிமுகம்: பறக்கும் கவர்ச்சி, கட்டுக்கதையிலிருந்து நிஜத்திற்குமனிதகுலம் பறக்கும் கனவு காலங்காலமாக இருந்து வருகிறது. பறவைகள், தேவதூதர்கள் மற்றும் பிற புராண இனங்கள் போன்ற பறக்கும் உயிரினங்களைப் பற்றிய கதைகள் மற்றும் புராணங்கள் பல நூற்றாண்டுகளாக இருந்து...

Nowadays Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) becomes focus point in thesuccessful airport and airline business across the world. In this book, themodel suggestion is created of ERM about airport business as optimalframework to ERM implementation...

On October 4, 1957 at 10:28 Moscow time, a rocket carrying the world's first orbiting satellite roared into space, signaling a new era in human history and the beginning of the so-called "space race" - an epic rivalry pitting the technological know-how...

THE TIME - From the end of World War II to the beginning of the jet age.THE PLACE - The world, across the Atlantic and the Pacific.THE PEOPLE - Pilots, navigators and air crewmen of US Navy Transport Squadrons.'Before the Jets' traces the lives of brave...

The DC-3 or Douglas Skyliner as it was then called was born (or took its first test flight) on the 17th December, 1935. It was originally designed to carry 21 passengers with seats that could fold down enabling it to operate overnight services from...

Bill Austen had some scary experiences; it came with the job of being a pilot. Having something go wrong at 90% of the speed of sound can really grab your attention. Flying big jets around the world for over forty years provided plenty of aviation...

The High-Altitude Memoirs of a Lifelong Flight Attendant...Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes during an airline flight? Have you considered that flight attendants might have fears of their own? What's the secret to boarding a plane...

Are always good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things?What is organizational blindness, and how do you protect it? In this book, you will learn how good people do bad...

The Best of Professional Pilot’s WxBrief is a compilation of aviation weather articles that have appeared in Professional Pilot magazine over the past decade. With WxBrief, Pro Pilot has taken aviation weather knowledge to the next level—explaining the...

Le ballon libre, ou montgolfière, a connu un développement fulgurant à partir de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Ce livre vous présente les rudiments de la manoeuvre de ce moyen de transport alors révolutionnaire.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

For many, the Boeing 747 is more than merely a means of air travel. Affectionately called the “Queen of the Skies”, it has transformed the globe and for more than half a century it has carved its own niche in the history of aviation. The...

'50 More Tales of Flight' continues the aviation adventure. From the open-air cockpit of an antique biplane to the beads-of-sweat realism of fighter jet simulators, the reader is taken aloft. Aircraft are flown across the globe, while others are...

Brazilian born, French educated, Alberto Santos-Dumont was probably one of only a few aviation pioneers who could claim significant accomplishments in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flying machines. He was the first man to succeed, not once...

260 2 Crew Legalities and Crew Pairing Repair 264 3 Model and Mathematical Formulation 266 4 Solution Methodology 271 5 Computational Experiences 277 6 Conclusion 285 REFERENCES 286 10 THE USE OF OPTIMIZATION TO PERFORM AIR...

At a certified average of 1.2 belly laughs and two good chuckles per page, this book is a must read for flying and Alaska enthusiasts alike. Even non-aviators can comfortably follow along as drama and nail biting suspense usually result in knee slapping...

Routes are arguably the most valuable of airline assets. Although widely practised in the industry, the process of developing air connectivity has drawn very limited academic research, but this book fills in this knowledge gap, by unwrapping the process...

Aviation safety is of global concern. This book is about one person's experience as a non-hypocritical safety regulator in a challenging environment. The author has found her amazing career experience interesting to share. The hazards of playing politics...

Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s, when the advent of lightweight materials, more efficient solar power, improved engines and the Li-Po...

This book evaluates the development of the Rhodesian Air Force during the Second Chimurenga or Bush War (1966-1980). Airpower in irregular conflict is effective at the tactical level because guerrilla warfare is not a purely military conflict. The...

Returning to India from China on November 3, 1944, WWII C-46 #996 calls an ominous "Mayday." The author, himself a Hump pilot on a mission that horrendous night, recalls the violent storms. Nothing more is heard from cargo plane 996. Sixty years later, a...

The story of one Canadian who was engaged in the Cold War from his youth through his career path to the lamentable demise of Canada's proud armed forces.

In this book, Stepney Blakeney provides a detailed look at the construction of airplanes in the early 20th century. From the materials used to the mechanics behind flight, Blakeney covers all aspects of airplane construction and design. Readers will gain...

Most people accept the view that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. “Not so!” according to American aviation pioneer Augustus Moore Herring. “The aeroplane has a good many daddies.” Herring should know; he was there.To...

Logistics is a $700 billion industry in the USA and is the second largest employer of college graduates. Logistics costs account for nearly 30% of the sales dollar, and logistics activities are essential to satisfying the...

If you liked Ann Hood's Fly Girl and Julie Cook's Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, you'll love True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants.The golden age of air travel promised a life of glamour and adventure for...

Pilot 101 is for anyone who is interested in aviation and being a pilot, whether simply for personal recreation and travel, or as a career. The book is organized in approximately the same sequence a person would follow, from thinking about being a pilot,...

Fundamentals of Electric Aircraft, Second Edition was developed to explain what the electric aircraft stands for by offering an objective view of what can be expected from the giant strides in innovative architectures and technologies enabling aircraft...

The author grew up in the Cincinnati, OH area and in Kentucky. He used to play in his grandmas barn, and would jump down on bales of hay. That was the beginning to, "let's learn to fly". It is said, "you can't teach a dog new tricks", but being so young,...

Take to the skies and explore the history and technology of aircraft from their earliest days to the present. This comprehensive guide covers everything from biplanes to drones.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

This book is unique in that it covers almost ALL the "classic" air disasters and other incidents that led to flying becoming so safe today. It highlights the human factors that often get overlooked, or in some cases such as the crash of...

Drawing on U.S. government reports, interrogation reports of Japanese officers, ship action reports and secondary sources, this book details more than 400 kamikaze attacks by Japanese aircraft, manned torpedoes, suicide boats and suicide swimmers...

""In 1963...there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine...

Aerospace Predictive Maintenance: Fundamental Concepts, written by longtime practitioner Charles E. Dibsdale based in the UK, considers PdM a subset of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), and must obey the same underlying rules and pre-requisites that...

Vertical Challenge: The Hiller Aircraft Story Chronicles the most innovative and least remembered of the helicopter industry's pioneering companies. Founded by Stanley Hiller, Jr., Hiller Aircraft produced conventional and ramjet helicopters, flying...

On September 11, 2001, long before anyone was aware of the impending attack, members of the United States air traffic control system knew something was wrong--bad wrong. Through their radars, they saw the erratic actions of airplanes in the sky and...