Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Aviation - General

From combat to commercial flight, WINGS OF VALOR contains 17 rollercoaster rides through air and space. Strap in and fly along with courageous men and women in today's combat aircraft. You'll experience amazing tales of dangerous airfield maneuvers, remotely piloted aircraft and drones, bringing a dead aircraft back to life, and communicating from air to ground in enemy territory. Travel into the past with gripping accounts of combat missions in World War II and Korea, a firsthand account of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the terrors of enemy ordnance falling on American soil. Learn about...

This book analyses the unique psychological appeal of the airship worldwide and shows how this appeal was exploited for ulterior political purposes. They were used by Count Zeppelin to advance German militarism, American Admiral Moffett to fight US Army aviation ambitions, British Lord Thomson to foster Socialism and strengthen Empire ties, Mussolini to promote Italian Fascism, Stalin to foster world Communism, and Hitler to promote Nazi ideology. As airships roamed worldwide, so they carried these political influences with them.

This book is an everything included approach to understanding drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft, and outlining the process of safety to protect that program. It is the first of a kind safety focused text book for unmanned aircraft operations, providing the reader with a required understanding of hazard identification, risk analysis, mitigation, and promotion. It enables the reader to speak the same language as any civil aviation authority, and gives the toolset to create a safety risk management program for unmanned aircraft.

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This is Volume III - Plans & Construction - of a four-volume (three volumes plus an Appendix) series: Build Your Own Hot-Air Balloon, written by an experienced builder and pilot after many years of work in the field, and originally published in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth Sealy (1957), Brian Graham (1995) and others to the study of air transport geography. Leading scholars in the field offer a unique insight into the key developments that have occurred in the field and the implications that these developments have had for geography, geographers, and global patterns of...

This is the final volume (Appendices) of the series Build Your Own Hot-Air Balloon. Unlike the other volumes (I-III), it does not cover only hot air balloons, but rather discusses gas balloons and the spherical enveloped generally used for them. The information in this volume is NOT needed to complete a hot-air balloon project, although there is some coverage of one-man (harness type) hot air balloons.

Performance of the Jet Transport Airplane: Analysis Methods, Flight Operations, and Regulations presents a detailed and comprehensive treatment of performance analysis techniques for jet transport airplanes. Uniquely, the book describes key operational and regulatory procedures and constraints that directly impact the performance of commercial airliners.

Topics include: rigid body dynamics; aerodynamic fundamentals; atmospheric models (including standard and non-standard atmospheres); height scales and altimetry; distance and speed...

This volume is essentially a continuation of the book, "Once a Fighter Pilot." It begins the day after "Once..." ends; and from there encompasses forty-five years of flying, mostly jets. As in "Once a Fighter Pilot," it is a compilation of aviation related short stories that are arranged in the approximate order in which they occurred. The recounted experiences include several facets of aviation with which the author was personally involved; airline, military, private, charter and corporate. Also at the end of several of these are postscripts which contain some personal observations that were...

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 to stay aloft. The terms soaring and gliding are used interchangeably, and the sport is appealing to pilot and spectator alike. Sailplane enthusiasts have always been explorers, always looking for a more ideal site that will provide the intellectual challenges of soaring as well as the sheer beauty and relaxation the sport can offer....

Wielkie znaczenie lotnictwa myśliwskiego Królewskich Sił Powietrznych we wczesnym okresie II wojny światowej nie ulega wątpliwości, jednak rola w bitwie o Anglię tych „nielicznych”, jak ich określił Churchill, zarówno w tamtym okresie, jak i w latach późniejszych była i wciąż pozostaje przedmiotem daleko idącej mitologizacji.
Niniejsza książka umieszcza lotników Fighter Command we właściwym kontekście historycznym, opisując rekrutację, szkolenie i przeżycia pilotów myśliwskich walczących pod niebem Francji i Wielkiej Brytanii. Nie byli to nieustraszeni,...

The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of the debate and asks whether airport competition is strong enough to effectively limit market power. It provides evidence on how travellers chose an airport, thereby altering its competitive position, and on how airports compete in different regions and markets. The book also discusses the main policy implications of mergers and subsidies.

Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take 'risk' seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn, and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk game is what safety is all about. As in operational success, risk management requires the best human faculties to achieve victory; talent of organizational players and commitment from top leadership rule the day. The...

Every issue of Ashgate's Human Factors and Aerospace Safety: An International Journal publishes an invited, critical review of a key area from a widely-respected researcher. To celebrate a successful first three years of the journal and to make these papers available to a wider audience, they have been collated here into a single volume. The book is divided into three sections, with articles addressing safety issues in flight deck design, aviation operations and training, and air traffic management. These articles describe the state of current research within a practical context and present...

From the author of Murder in a 172 and Flying under the Weather comes a fact-based expose of the errors of the National Transportation Safety Board in investigating aviation accidents.

You hear all about the investigations for the well-publicized plane crashes. The NTSB addresses these cases with aplomb, delving deep into the mechanical issues and even bringing in non-NTSB investigators to cover themselves under the eye of Congress. But what about general aviation-the realm of the highest number of deaths?

Flight physician John A. Shewmaker argues in Head in...

The world's air traffic control market is recognized to be challenging in both its technical complexity and in the diversity of its customers. With over 200 national organizations holding continual competitive procurements, it is difficult to maintain a clear understanding of when a particular customer last procured which capability. And even when that is known, which supplier provided which product and where were they installed? Air Traffic Control Market Profile reports address the worldwide air traffic control market organized by country or overseas dependency. This report is one of a...

The FAA has significantly relaxed regulatory requirements for flying small unmanned aircraft. Commercial entities or freelancers need not apply individually for waivers or authority to fly for commercial purposes. Now, anyone can fly a drone weighing less than 55 pounds and get paid for it as long as he registers the drone, a simple web-based process costing only five dollars, and passes a written test. This book is designed to help anyone pass the written test. Even the holders of regular pilots' licenses must complete an online course containing much of the same material covered by the...

This volume is a collection of product brochures collected at airshows and defense exhibitions around Asia. The brochures will provide the researcher with primary source material on Chinese helicopters, including both civilian and military applications. This volume includes a list of acronyms and an index. The following helicopters are profiled: SW-4 W-3A B-2B HC120 AC311 CA109 Chongqing Z8 Z9 Z11 Z15 Z19 Engines

Never before in the history of aviation has such a book as this been crafted, mostly because people had better things to do. Fortunately for pilots living in or visiting Washington State, the author had nothing better to do. And thus, A Pilot's Guide to Washington was born.

Each riveting chapter is filled full with exciting details of airports in Washington State and the restaurants, things to do, and overnight accommodations within walking distance of your tiedown. Every thrilling airport entry is rated (based on the author's prejudices) and includes information about courtesy cars...