Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Aviation - General

This is the first in a series featuring the adventures of Arnold A. Airplane. It was inspired by the birth of my grandson Jace.

I had the pleasure of taking care of Jace for about three hours one day. The last thirty minutes or so, he was asleep in my arms. As I was holding him and just looking down into his little face, my heart filled with a love I had not felt in many years. I then tried to analyze why I love him so much, since he wasn't doing anything. He was just there So I just drank in the moments, wishing that feeling of pure love would last forever.

I then thought...

Practical Airport Operations, Safety, and Emergency Management: Protocols for Today and the Future focuses on the airport itself, not the aircraft, manufacturers, designers, or even the pilots. The book explores the safety of what's been called 'the most expensive piece of pavement in any city'-- the facility that operates, maintains, and ensures the safety of millions of air passengers every year.

The book is organized into three helpful sections, each focusing on one of the sectors described in the title. Section One: Airport Safety, explores the airport environment, then...

In the last several years, many of the military advancements have been rivaled by those in the commercial realm. Civilian industries have clamored to acquire drones for everything from monitoring...

Best selling adult coloring book artist Beth Ingrias presents a new style of adult coloring book that features 30 airplanes in a way that makes creating a work of art simple. Each design features pre-shaded areas which make the concept of shading very easy. Darker colors work best in the darker pre-shaded areas and any color can be applied to the lighter pre-shaded areas for highlights. Each finished piece looks like a painting done by a master painter.

This concept has already become a huge hit among Beth's fans. Grab a copy of this adult coloring book for yourself and create...

Within the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use the intertwined dimensions of economics, society and environment to guide their business activities. However, disingenuously, the advocates and regulators frequently pay insufficient attention to the economics which are critical to airlines sustainability and profits. This omission pushes airlines into the unprofitable domain of CSERplus.

The author identifies alleged market inefficiencies and failures, examines CSERplus impacts on...

In 1914, the U.S. Navy established its first air base in Pensacola, Florida, and two years later, the U.S. Army conducted the first combat flights in American history after using the Gulf Coast region of Texas as a training area. In the decades that followed, the Gulf South welcomed over two hundred military air stations, and by the close of the twentieth century these installations had fostered critical advances in pilot training, producing many of the most acclaimed military personnel to take to the skies. Vincent P. Caire s authoritative and inspiring photographic survey recognizes Gulf...

While there are a multitude of publications on corporate finance and financial management, only a few address the complexity of air transport industry finance and scant attention has been given to airport financial management. This book deals exclusively with airport issues to rectify this. It does this with an analysis of the theoretical concepts relevant to the subject area combined with a detailed investigation of current practice within the industry.

Airport Finance and Investment in the Global Economy bridges the gap between much academic research on airports published...

Silver Medal Winner at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, NY, USA.

Sometimes it's not about the destination...it's about the journey.

'Flying the Knife Edge' is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a pilot in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s.

After an untimely exit from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Matt McLaughlin took a leap into the unknown, travelling to Papua New Guinea to work as a missionary pilot. He soon switched from missionary to mercenary, and over the next three and a half years, as...