Commercial Aviation-An Insider's Story
ISBN: 9781489700469 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,84 zł |
On Duct Tape And A Prayer: The High-Flying Adventures of Jack Alexander
ISBN: 9781489564016 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cocky, green pilot flies an old Cessna 150 across the United States in 1994. The "Kid" and his gonzo passenger, Doc, take to the skies in an unforgettable misadventure. From Scottsdale Airport, the "Canary" takes off and attempts to cross the "hump" on its passage eastward.
A cocky, green pilot flies an old Cessna 150 across the United States in 1994. The "Kid" and his gonzo passenger, Doc, take to the skies in an unforge...
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26,96 zł |
Wings Over the Aussie Outback
ISBN: 9781494852207 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,18 zł |
Faa.....It Is about Safety
ISBN: 9781491716632 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book more than anything else is a history in short of two transportation systems. About America in the past 150 years. How one was built by private money (the Robber Barons) who produced a national infrastructure that has lasted to this day. About how these people through their generosity made hospitals, Schools, Libraries. The other is the one made by the Government. Interstates, Airports. This system has been around since the mid sixties. Today is falling apart due to lack of government funding. This book shows how local Politics controls where the money is going and how. I hope the...
This book more than anything else is a history in short of two transportation systems. About America in the past 150 years. How one was built by priva...
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60,20 zł |
Identification of German Aircraft (Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence FM 30-35)
ISBN: 9781782665137 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,55 zł |
Building Safe Systems in Aviation: A Crm Developer's Handbook
ISBN: 9780754640219 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Safe Systems in Aviation provides a single source for those who need to progress beyond current models of Crew Resource Management (CRM) to developing safe systems in critical industries. Although the primary focus is on airline pilots, the principles apply to all sectors of aviation, particularly maintenance and cabin crew, as well as other high-risk industries. It systematically sets out the context of CRM and safe systems, the conduct of training, the resources needed by the facilitator and the processes required for the measurement of outcomes. Part One reviews the development of...
Building Safe Systems in Aviation provides a single source for those who need to progress beyond current models of Crew Resource Management (CRM) to d...
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624,83 zł |
A Mi Lado, El Miedo: 30 Anos Volando En Venezuela
ISBN: 9789801258605 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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299,06 zł |
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
ISBN: 9780307742322 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013** **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** In a dazzling fusion of history, art, science, and biography, Falling Upwards resurrects the daring men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air in balloons. Richard Holmes gives us another of his unforgettable portraits of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision, weaving together exhilarating accounts of early balloon rivalries, pioneering ascents over Victorian cities, and astonishing... **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013** **Kirkus Best Books of the Yea... |
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94,94 zł |
Celebrating a History of Excellence: The Federal Aviation Administration Aviation and Space Education Outreach Program
ISBN: 9781495428258 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This documents details the 75 years of experience of the FAA's aviation and space education outreach programs and its encouragement of elementary, secondary and even college students to study math, science, technology, engineering, and a host of other disciplines.
This documents details the 75 years of experience of the FAA's aviation and space education outreach programs and its encouragement of elementary, sec...
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76,99 zł |
Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight- December 17, 1903
ISBN: 9781492948094 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 2002 as volume 27 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series, this bibliography commemorates the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight- December 17, 1903
Published in 2002 as volume 27 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series, this bibliography commemorates the One-Hundredth Anniversary of th...
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99,65 zł |
Zeppelin: The Story of the Zeppelin Airships: The Story of the Zeppelin Airships
ISBN: 9780764344787 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On July 2, 1900, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin made the first ascent in an airship of his own design. The flight was initially viewed with skepticism, however public opinion changed after the destruction of his fourth airship at Echterdingen. Zeppelin received so many donations that not only was he able to found his own companies for the purpose of building airships, but also production facilities for the development and manufacture of engines, transmissions, shells, gas cells, airship hangars and even the construction of aircraft. All of these companies enjoyed a tremendous upswing during the...
On July 2, 1900, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin made the first ascent in an airship of his own design. The flight was initially viewed with skepticism, howev...
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175,34 zł |
American Airlines, Us Airways and the Creation of the World's Largest Airline
ISBN: 9780786477838 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the U.S. airline industry. A young management team that began plotting mergers a decade earlier designed a brilliant strategy to seize an industry prize. In doing so, it enlisted the help of unions who engineered one of the labor movement's biggest corporate victories. The airlines' histories and the inside story of the takeover is told by two veteran airline reporters.
The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the U.S. airline industry. A young management team tha...
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187,25 zł |
F-111 Aardvark Pilot's Flight Operating Manual
ISBN: 9781940453316 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The F-111 Aardvark flew 4000 combat missions during the Vietnam War, struck Libya in 1986, and saw action during Operation Desert Storm. Originally designed as a medium-range fighter-bomber, the versatile aircraft proved its meddle as a strategic bomber, tactical strike aircraft, and reconnaissance platform. When it debuted in 1964, the F-111 ushered in a new era. Equipped with variable-geometry wings, afterburning turbofan engines, and terrain-following radar, the high-tech F-111 was truly groundbreaking. Originally printed by General Dynamics and the United States Air Force in the 1960s,...
The F-111 Aardvark flew 4000 combat missions during the Vietnam War, struck Libya in 1986, and saw action during Operation Desert Storm. Originally de...
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150,82 zł |
Brave, Splendid Fools: A Life in Aviation
ISBN: 9781499706468 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is nothing quite like the stories of those who were present at the creation of aviation, who knew aviation in its rag-wing infancy, and whose careers progressed along with the march of technology-- flying faster, higher and more precisely with a particularly interesting foundation of knowledge. One of these exceptional people was Captain William L. Bacheler who, as a boy of eight years old, strained to catch a glimpse of his hero, Charles Lindbergh during a Seattle parade. From that moment on, he looked to the skies as his passion and ambition in life. His dream was realized when...
There is nothing quite like the stories of those who were present at the creation of aviation, who knew aviation in its rag-wing infancy, and whose ca...
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81,33 zł |
Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Dynamics 1960-77
ISBN: 9781847977397 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Hawker Siddeley Group that built some of the most important aircraft and missiles of the 1960s, 70s and beyond. Charts the progress of the Group and follows their development after they became British Aerospace in 1977 to the present day. Hawker Siddeley's history can be traced back to 1912 and the formation of the Sopwith Aviation Company by Tom Sopwith, which metamorphosed into Hawker Aircraft after World War One. In 1934-35, Gloster, Avro, Armstrong Siddeley, Armstrong Whitworth and others were taken over to create the Hawker Siddeley Group. The story of the Hawker Siddeley Group that built some of the most important aircraft and missiles of the 1960s, 70s and beyond. Charts the progres... |
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164,16 zł |
Canadian Aviation and the Avro Arrow
ISBN: 9781500545994 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its first flight in 1958, the Avro Aircraft CF-105 Arrow appeared to be Canada's greatest aeronautical achievement. As the world's fastest and most advanced aircraft at that time, the Arrow, flying at twice the speed of sound over the Canadian north, was to attack Soviet bombers with air-to-air nuclear missiles. Also during the mid-1950's, the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 27 fighter jet squadrons assigned to NATO and NORAD, was respected as one of the great air forces in the western alliance. But Canada quickly tumbled from this threshold of aeronautical leadership with the sudden...
With its first flight in 1958, the Avro Aircraft CF-105 Arrow appeared to be Canada's greatest aeronautical achievement. As the world's fastest and mo...
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39,65 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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335,87 zł |
Clipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World
ISBN: 9781440836084 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have... Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges an... |
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191,84 zł |
The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor
ISBN: 9781502449320 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,65 zł |
Mr. Haddock's Narrative of His Hazardous and Exciting Voyage in the Balloon Atlantic, with Prof. Jno. LaMountain
ISBN: 9781473320734 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 21st century - the age of the budget airline - where quick and reliable air travel is available to a large segment of society, it seems hard to comprehend that it is less than 250 years since the first human took to the skies. Although the wing of the bird seemed like the most obvious natural mechanism to attempt replicate, it was actually contained hot air, as demonstrated by the Montgolfiers and their balloon, that gave birth to the era human aviation. Since the first manned balloon flight in 1783, developments have come thick and fast, the airship, the aeroplane, and finally the...
In the 21st century - the age of the budget airline - where quick and reliable air travel is available to a large segment of society, it seems hard to...
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53,12 zł |