Beyond the Cabbage Tree
ISBN: 9781449015756 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Great content, easy reading. Original and often very exciting and full of suspense." This book is based on real life and not fiction. From struggles to triumphs Noel's journey takes him to many corners of the globe. From digging graves in New Zealand to flying Pilatus Porter aircraft for the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Ethiopian famine. From his experiences in jail in Mexico to patrolling the Iraq-Kuwait border on the United Nations Mission. From unparalleled adventures taking Noel into the heart of Africa and Asia encountering many hairy experiences to the...
"Great content, easy reading. Original and often very exciting and full of suspense." This book is based on real life and not fiction. From struggles ...
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310,16 zł |
The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry
ISBN: 9780821420508 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roach s study digs deeper than technological and business history. By casting his narrative in an urban historical context and painting the sociocultural elements that affected the business, the author contributes to a clearer understanding of how seemingly unrelated elements affected the development of the Wright aircraft business. The HistorianFresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin...
Roach s study digs deeper than technological and business history. By casting his narrative in an urban historical context and painting the socioc...
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317,98 zł |
Lockerbie: The Story and the Lessons
ISBN: 9780275964931 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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318,78 zł |
Lockheed\'s Blackbirds: The Missing Chapters
ISBN: 9781472851383 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using recently declassified information, globally renowned expert Paul Crickmore updates his definitive account of the aircraft. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ranks as one of the most elegant, sleek and powerful aeroplanes ever designed. But it was not built to be admired – it was built not to be seen at all. The high-altitude aerial reconnaissance sorties it was to perform were top secret and carefully concealed from public knowledge. However, as the aircraft have...
The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using recently declassif...
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318,78 zł |
Dreamland: The Secret History of Area 51
ISBN: 9780764367090 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now, aerospace historian Peter Merlin cuts through the myths and conspiracy folklore to reveal in extraordinary detail the true story of how a ramshackle temporary outpost was ultimately transformed into one of the nation's premier flight test and evaluation facilities for advanced aviation technology and high-tech weapons. This compelling narrative is based on a treasure trove of declassified documents and interviews and is richly illustrated with more than 700...
Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now, aerospace histo...
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320,51 zł |
Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Force
ISBN: 9789381904268 / Angielski / Mikrofilm / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Force is a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the air force and the emerging aviation industry in PRC. The author has made a bold effort to trace the changing character of Chinese Air Force from the time of nationalists and perspicuously hunted down the history by dividing PLAAF into three distinct periods. The first stage from 1949-1979 has been characterized by the early blues of PLAAF under Mao's leadership. Deng then had an overbearing influence in the second stage from 1979-1993, also instrumental in...
Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Force is a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the air force and the em...
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320,64 zł |
Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context
ISBN: 9781780393698 / Angielski / Twarda / 614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NASA-SP-2009-4802. NASA History Series. Edited by Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella. Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book...
NASA-SP-2009-4802. NASA History Series. Edited by Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella. Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropo...
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322,81 zł |
Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety
ISBN: 9780801451607 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve -patient safety- and -inter-professional practice.- Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal? Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork. In response to a series of human-error caused crashes,... The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve -patient safety- and -inter-professional practice.- Nevertheless, an... |
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328,08 zł |
Race - Canard Air Racing - Color Edition: A History of Racing Burt Rutan Inspired Designs, 1983-2005
ISBN: 9780692256329 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. RACE - Canard Air Racing - A History of Racing Burt Rutan Designs, 1983-2005 is a pictorial history of the Air Race events held by the RACE -Rutan And Composites Enthusiasts covering the first event in 1983, through the last in 2005. It is a photo rich document with over 950 color photos, and features maps (aviation charts) of the events, and stories by some of the racers. Burt Rutan's designs (or other Rutan inspired designs) that raced with us include the Varieze, Long-Ez, Cozy, Defiant, Quickie, and we were later had Glasairs, Lancairs, RVs, and Questair Ventures enter and compete in these...
RACE - Canard Air Racing - A History of Racing Burt Rutan Designs, 1983-2005 is a pictorial history of the Air Race events held by the RACE -Rutan And...
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332,60 zł |
The Evolution of Airport Design
ISBN: 9781032347400 / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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333,07 zł |
Conquest of the Skies: Seeking Range, Endurance, and the Intercontinental Bomber
ISBN: 9780764353215 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This meticulously researched volume is a must in the library of any aviation buff: the most comprehensive descriptive and illustrated history of military and civilian aircraft and their pilots (men and women) to increase the range and endurance of their aircraft. Beginning with the proof of concept efforts to establish the airplane as a true flying machine from 1900 to WWI, it then delves into civilian and military efforts by country, with the civilian effort mainly for personal achievement and the military for ultimately developing the intercontinental bomber and beyond. Hundreds of daring...
This meticulously researched volume is a must in the library of any aviation buff: the most comprehensive descriptive and illustrated history of milit...
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339,98 zł |
Boeing 727: Triumph in the Skies
ISBN: 9780764360510 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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339,98 zł |
Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry (NASA History Series SP-2006-4110)
ISBN: 9781780396897 / Angielski / Twarda / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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340,75 zł |
The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe
ISBN: 9780822944652 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris--a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin--highlighted celebrations of French military victory against Britain and ignited a balloon mania that swept across Europe at the end of the Enlightenment. This popular frenzy for balloon experiments, which attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators, fundamentally altered the once elite audience for science by...
The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the Ame...
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350,00 zł |
Balls Three: History of the Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress Mothership
ISBN: 9781678050269 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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358,73 zł |
So You Want to Design Aircraft: Robots on the Floor
ISBN: 9780768084245 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is ironic that as aircraft have gotten more sophisticated, much of their manufacture has remained manual. However, as orders for commercial aircraft have dramatically increased over the past years and are expected to remain on that trajectory, the competition has become not just about how fast new technologies can be put on the aircraft, but about how fast the aircraft can be manufactured and delivered. Enter ever increasing automation and robotics. Just as it has taken multiple years to reach the sophisticated content levels on current generation aircraft, so too has it been necessary to...
It is ironic that as aircraft have gotten more sophisticated, much of their manufacture has remained manual. However, as orders for commercial aircraf...
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358,97 zł |
Silent Skies: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
ISBN: 9780275961886 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of power and the abuse of power that led to the demise of a major federal union and the firing of over 11,000 federal employees. The Professional Air Traffic Controller's Organization (PATCO) misjudged the political sentiment of the nation, the willingness of the Reagan Administration to implement its social and economic agenda, and the ability of the union to achieve its goals through work stoppages. The events of 1981, chronicled in this story, severely undermined the union movement and set the stage for labor-management relations in the public sector for the... This is the story of power and the abuse of power that led to the demise of a major federal union and the firing of over 11,000 federal employees. ... |
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393,16 zł |
NASA's First A: Aeronautics from 1958-2008 (NASA History Series SP-2012-4412)
ISBN: 9781782665632 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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397,58 zł |
The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions, Expanded Collector's Edition
ISBN: 9780760382578 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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401,63 zł |
NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives; NASA 50 Anniversary Proceedings
ISBN: 9781780393704 / Angielski / Twarda / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NASA SP-2009-1704. Steven J. Dick, Editor. Based on a symposium held on October 28-29, 2008 at NASA. Scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA's first 50 years.
NASA SP-2009-1704. Steven J. Dick, Editor. Based on a symposium held on October 28-29, 2008 at NASA. Scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA's first ...
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403,58 zł |