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Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling
ISBN: 9780393326567 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defying Gravity tells the astonishing story of how gravity pioneers transformed an ancient terror--the sensation of falling--into the modern thrill that powers extreme sports, monstrous amusement rides, and a youth culture obsessed with "getting air." It's a hair-raising tour, with nineteenth-century parachutists plummeting to their deaths before thousands, British lords tumbling from Alpine peaks, Hollywood stuntmen dropping from biplanes to freight trains, drunken carousers outrunning police to make the world's first bungee jump, and X Games athletes such as stunt bike rider Mat... Defying Gravity tells the astonishing story of how gravity pioneers transformed an ancient terror--the sensation of falling--into the mode... |
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108,68 zł |
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Kites for Everyone : How to Make and Fly Them
ISBN: 9780486452951 / Angielski / Miękka / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The most influential kitemaker you never heard of." -- American Kite. This thorough guide by an expert kitemaker includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for creating and flying more than fifty kites. An easy and comprehensive introduction for anyone interested in these amazing flyers, the book opens with the history and science of kites, followed by a section on kite construction and flying. Organized according to kite types, Greger's book includes chapters on everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese, Snake, Dutch, Dragon, Bullet, Delta, and Flowform flyers. She even...
"The most influential kitemaker you never heard of." -- American Kite. This thorough guide by an expert kitemaker includes easy-to-follow, illu...
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74,96 zł |
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Flying High
ISBN: 9780595265862 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,98 zł |
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No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
ISBN: 9780743257909 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures at hundreds of miles an hour. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly really well and to win you must depart the land of the possible and enter a place of pure faith. In this stunning literary debut, Joshua Cooper Ramo has crafted a meditation on the seduction of flight and a passionate love letter to a life of risk.
In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures at hundreds of miles an hour....
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82,55 zł |
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Air Sports
ISBN: 9780071410519 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the ways to fly, this book discusses the fun and reward of the other flying sports such as soaring, paragliding, ballooning, remote-controlled airplane flying, ultralight piloting, and hang gliding. It discusses training requirements, the necessary time investment, cost, equipment, safety, and basics of each option.
Exploring the ways to fly, this book discusses the fun and reward of the other flying sports such as soaring, paragliding, ballooning, remote-controll...
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130,41 zł |
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Basic Aerobatics
ISBN: 9781853101083 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Basic Aerobatics contains all the information a pilot needs to undertake the basic Loops and Rolls and air exercises such as Advanced Turning, Stalling, Spinning and Recovery from Unusual Attitudes. The Loop, Barrel Roll, Stall Turn, Snap Roll and Combinations are also covered and the aircraft, its equipment and human limitations are discussed.
Basic Aerobatics contains all the information a pilot needs to undertake the basic Loops and Rolls and air exercises such as Advanced Turning, Stallin...
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109,83 zł |
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Beginning Gliding
ISBN: 9780713663525 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual is intended for budding and improving glider pilots and as a resource for gliding instructors. It views the whole process from the perspective of a beginner tackling all the difficulties and concerns experienced by them head on, including the fundamentals of gliding, how to learn them and how they should be taught. It includes a new chapter on soaring.
This manual is intended for budding and improving glider pilots and as a resource for gliding instructors. It views the whole process from the perspec...
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164,75 zł |
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Gliding: A Handbook on Soaring Flight
ISBN: 9780713661484 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An illustrated volume on gliding. It includes a section for the student pilot and information on flying techniques, instruments, conditions and equipment. This edition is updated and contains revised hints for beginners.
An illustrated volume on gliding. It includes a section for the student pilot and information on flying techniques, instruments, conditions and equipm...
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137,29 zł |
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Understanding Gliding
ISBN: 9780713661477 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of gliding, exploring how and why a glider flies. Written by a gliding instructor, it seeks to demystify the theory behind the subject. This fourth edition is updated to include developments in technology and high-performance gliders.
A study of gliding, exploring how and why a glider flies. Written by a gliding instructor, it seeks to demystify the theory behind the subject. This f...
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137,29 zł |
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Rushing with the Wind
ISBN: 9781436386746 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,40 zł |
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Rushing with the Wind
ISBN: 9781436386753 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,14 zł |
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Getting Started with Hobby Quadcopters and Drones: Learn about, buy and fly these amazing aerial vehicles
ISBN: 9781490968971 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quadcopters, Quads, Personal Drones, Multirotors and UAV's are amazing flying machines which contain advanced technology. They are about to transform our world and our lives in many ways. Updated for 2016/2017 - Hobbyists, photographers, pilots or others with interest in this new technology can now participate in this revolution at a very low cost. This book will guide the beginner through the first steps in choosing, buying, flying and understanding these flying robots.
Quadcopters, Quads, Personal Drones, Multirotors and UAV's are amazing flying machines which contain advanced technology. They are about to transform ...
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27,34 zł |
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Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe: Flying the "open cockpit convertable" Ercoupe
ISBN: 9781460978511 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe offers real flying adventures in a wonderful classic convertable type Ercoupe airplane. Come fly with me to OshKosh, Sun-N-Fun, the Arkansas Picnic, and other cross country trips. Experience unique discovery and the unbelievable. Many events are supported with neat color photo's. Words are good but nothing says so much as pictures. The book also provides insite to what it's like to own such a fun filled open cockpit convertable aircraft. There are also photo's of modifications by owners such as paint schemes, instrument panels, etc. Over 5,500 of these...
Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe offers real flying adventures in a wonderful classic convertable type Ercoupe airplane. Come fly with me to OshKo...
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136,70 zł |
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Flying the Tail Wheel Airplane
ISBN: 9781466327771 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a licensed pilot, have you ever wondered why pilots who fly tailwheel airplanes are always smiling? While the FAA requires additional training to earn a tail wheel endorsement, those who master the requisite skills never look back from this fun, rewarding adventure. Now, seasoned flight instructor Jim Alsip delivers Flying the Tail Wheel Airplane: Stick and Rudder Skills for All Pilots. With numerous photographs, diagrams, and concise key points, this accessible, expert resource is certain to chart any pilot's course to achieving his or her tail wheel endorsement. In clear, comprehensible...
As a licensed pilot, have you ever wondered why pilots who fly tailwheel airplanes are always smiling? While the FAA requires additional training to e...
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109,32 zł |
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No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
ISBN: 9780753508640 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aerobatic pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures, twisting their planes at hundreds of miles per hour. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly well you must depart the land of the possible and enter the place of pure faith. a larger context of the buzz of extreme sports. It is partly an autobigraphical journey through his own ambition to transform himself from an everyday flyer into a serious competitive pilot capable of winning the US national championships, and partly the unforgettable life stories of the greatest aerobatic geniuses who redefined what it is...
Aerobatic pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures, twisting their planes at hundreds of miles per hour. In a bad year no sport kills more of it...
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87,81 zł |
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Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity
ISBN: 9780719086823 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation assembles an unprecedented mass of scattered evidence to examine the social exclusivity of people who used private and commercial aircraft to circulate though the empire in the 1930s. While airline publicity stressed flying patriotically and in style, flying was not always slick, romantic or modern. It did not end danger or delay, nor was it necessarily progressive. Imperial flying was mobility laced with imperious assumptions and prejudices. It reinforced social rank and continued to depend on the subservience and muscle of colonised...
Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation assembles an unprecedented mass of scattered evidence to examine the social exclusivity of peopl...
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466,78 zł |
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Escape to the Sky
ISBN: 9781479722419 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,25 zł |
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Escape to the Sky
ISBN: 9781479722426 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,26 zł |
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DIY Rc Airplanes from Scratch: The Brooklyn Aerodrome Bible for Hacking the Skies
ISBN: 9780071810043 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BUILD YOUR OWN REMOTE-CONTROLLED AIRPLANES QUICKLY, EASILY, AND INEXPENSIVELY
Take to the skies with a majestic motorized model aircraft you create and pilot yourself. Written by the founder of the Brooklyn Aerodrome, DIY RC Airplanes from Scratch shows you how to build a Flack (Flying + Hack) delta wing from the ground up using widely available, low-cost materials and tools. You'll also learn the skills you need to get your plane into the air and keep it there. By the end of the book, you'll be able to create your own customized designs. The sky's the limit Discover how... BUILD YOUR OWN REMOTE-CONTROLLED AIRPLANES QUICKLY, EASILY, AND INEXPENSIVELY
Take to the skies with a majestic motorized model aircraft you creat... |
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134,76 zł |
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Aerobatics: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9781843360810 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,48 zł |
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