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Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail
ISBN: 9780060529505 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. It was the pilots of the U.S. Air Mail service who made it possible for flight to evolve from an impractical and deadly fad to today's worldwide network of airlines. Nicknamed "The Suicide Club," this small but daring cadre of pilots took a fleet of flimsy World War I "Jenny" Biplanes and blazed a trail of sky routes across the country. In the midst of the Jazz Age, they were dashing, group-proud, brazen, and resentful of authority. They were also loyal, determined to prove the skeptics wrong. MAVERICKS OF THE SKY, by Barry Rosenburg and Catherine Macaulay, is a narrative non-fiction... It was the pilots of the U.S. Air Mail service who made it possible for flight to evolve from an impractical and deadly fad to today's worldwid... |
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66,49 zł |
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Lockerbie: The Story and the Lessons
ISBN: 9780275964931 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, personal knowledge of aviation security matters gained from his position at the crossroads of security information and the industry's endeavors to combat aviation terrorism, had warned the industry one year before the bombing that the interline element of baggage represented the prime opportunity for terrorist activity and had urged the adoption of passenger and baggage matching, a system that he had helped to develop. Mandated by the FAA for use at... The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, perso... |
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454,53 zł |
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
ISBN: 9780374516352 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors. This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowl... |
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70,69 zł |
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The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
ISBN: 9780393306958 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. He shows us exactly how and why these two obscure bachelors from Dayton, Ohio, were able to succeed where so many better-trained, better-financed rivals...
Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited the...
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91,27 zł |
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Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age
ISBN: 9780393326208 / Angielski / Miękka / 725 str. The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age--a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practical consequences, the sheer exhilaration of flight captured the imagination. No longer bound to the surface of the earth, humans took the first steps on a journey that would eventually carry them to other worlds. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines, and ideas of the air age into a compelling narrative. He tells how the enthusiasm of amateurs spawned an industry that determined the rise and fall of nations. Yet this is not a tale of unalloyed...
The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age--a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practic...
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145,53 zł |
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Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers
ISBN: 9780470851418 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Cowboy journalist Will Rogers called it the Powder Puff Derby. After all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland. One reporter reckoned that far from finding the finishing lie, the 'girls' would have trouble finding somewhere to powder their noses. He was wrong and one sunny day in 1929 nineteen young women set out to prove it.
A whole generation of brave, even reckless, young women were breaking the ties that bound them to home, to convention and to the earth, and taking... Cowboy journalist Will Rogers called it the Powder Puff Derby. After all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? ...
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37,38 zł |
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Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry
ISBN: 9780472086719 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Pushing the Envelope, a survey history of the American aircraft (now aerospace) manufacturing industry, is the most comprehensive history on the subject ever completed. Though it covers the development of the industry from the beginnings of flight to the present, it provides far more than a simple chronology by analyzing key economic, military, technical, and international influences on the industry and showing how the industry has been instrumental in American military and technological leadership from its modest beginnings.
Using original sources whenever available, Pushing the... Pushing the Envelope, a survey history of the American aircraft (now aerospace) manufacturing industry, is the most comprehensive history on th...
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202,44 zł |
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Dictatorship of the Air
ISBN: 9780521859578 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Focusing on one of the last untold chapters in the history of human flight, Dictatorship of the Air is the first book to explain the true story behind twentieth-century Russia s quest for aviation prominence. Based on nearly a decade of scholarly research, but written with general readers in mind, this is the only account to answer the question What is Russian about Russian aviation? From the 1909 arrival of machine-powered flight in the land of the tsars to the USSR s victory over Hitler in 1945, Dictatorship of the Air describes why the airplane became the preeminent symbol of industrial...
Focusing on one of the last untold chapters in the history of human flight, Dictatorship of the Air is the first book to explain the true story behind...
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331,52 zł |
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Yeager: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780553256741 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 448 str. General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied... General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who ...
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37,38 zł |
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The Bush Pilots: A Pictorial History of a North American Phenomenon
ISBN: 9780595144839 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. |
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104,45 zł |
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Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country
ISBN: 9780595168163 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. |
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78,92 zł |
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Canadian Warbirds of the Second World War Trainers, Transports and Utility Aircraft
ISBN: 9780595184033 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. |
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54,18 zł |
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Washington Warbird Survivors 2002: A Handbook on Where to Find Them
ISBN: 9780595216932 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. |
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88,82 zł |
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Danger in the Air: Federal Aviation Administration Blunders
ISBN: 9780595217137 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. |
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59,13 zł |
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Just Wind: Tales of Two Pilots Under Pressure
ISBN: 9780595287055 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. |
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118,50 zł |
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Runways Are Not Paved with Gold
ISBN: 9780595323593 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. This is the story of dedicated men and women who are and were the backbone of aviation. They took all they had and bought 60 acres of land 35 miles from the city and proceeded to build an airport mostly with the blood, sweat and tears from their brows. None of them saw great wealth from their endeavor however, they were doing what they loved: living and sleeping with airplanes. They fueled them, repaired them, stored them and in some cases even taught in them.
This is the story of dedicated men and women who are and were the backbone of aviation. They took all they had and bought 60 acres of land 35 miles fr...
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64,08 zł |
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Air Cops: A Personal History of Air Traffic Control
ISBN: 9780595393787 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. |
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49,69 zł |
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Runways Are Not Paved with Gold
ISBN: 9780595773374 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. This is the story of dedicated men and women who are and were the backbone of aviation. They took all they had and bought 60 acres of land 35 miles from the city and proceeded to build an airport mostly with the blood, sweat and tears from their brows. None of them saw great wealth from their endeavor however, they were doing what they loved: living and sleeping with airplanes. They fueled them, repaired them, stored them and in some cases even taught in them.
This is the story of dedicated men and women who are and were the backbone of aviation. They took all they had and bought 60 acres of land 35 miles fr...
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113,56 zł |
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Flight Research at NASA Langley Research Center
ISBN: 9780738544373 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. 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. Langley flight research personnel helped the nation s aircraft industry bloom during the
Golden Era of aviation throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Langley s flight research then helped win World War II with performance-enhancing modifications to new aircraft. During the cold war, Langley helped the country maintain an edge in aeronautics over... Following the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915, a unique flight research operations division was established at the...
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91,43 zł |
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Fairchild Aircraft
ISBN: 9780738544397 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. When Orville Wright made the first successful flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, no one could have envisioned the impact that the historic occasion would have on Hagerstown, Maryland, and the tri-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. When Sherman M. Fairchild bought controlling interest in Hagerstown s Kreider-Reisner Aircraft in 1929, the
stage was set for the newly formed Fairchild Aircraft to become a major contributor to the country s World War II efforts. In 1939, the company was awarded a contract to build 270 PT-19... When Orville Wright made the first successful flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, no one could have envisioned ...
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