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RAF Airfields of World War 2
ISBN: 9781857803495 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives complete coverage of all the RAF airfields in World War 2 in Britain, including all the RAF Fighter, Bomber, Coastal, and Transport Command airfields and bases of the period. Each airfield is described with a short history, first-person accounts, and information on airfield buildings, illustrated with photographs and maps, making this book a complete and unique single-volume illustrated reference book covering all of the RAF's frontline airfields in the UK during World War 2. General chapters also cover airfield construction and organization, orders of battle for each command...
This book gives complete coverage of all the RAF airfields in World War 2 in Britain, including all the RAF Fighter, Bomber, Coastal, and Transport Co...
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175,71 |
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Jet City Rewind: Aviation History of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780764351068 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the dawn of human flight to today, Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles and fabric biplanes to jumbo jets, from epic pioneering flights to innovative companies making world travel routine. This book recaptures that historical awe and connects it with a sense of place. These subjects may span decades of existence or represent a single day's events. Some are inspiring places of creativity and innovation, some are grim accident sites. All have some significance to the story of flight in the region. Do you know the exact spot of the first airplane flight in the area? How about...
From the dawn of human flight to today, Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles and fabric biplanes to jumbo jets, from epic pioneering flig...
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142,83 |
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Growing up with Spaceflight- Project Gemini
ISBN: 9781942898115 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,88 |
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Concorde
ISBN: 9781472819550 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When commercial air services were launched in 1976, Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Flying at speeds in excess of Mach 2, she was the only commercial airliner ever developed that could maintain twice the speed of sound for periods of over two hours. This is an illustrated guide to Concorde that examines how its designers had to overcome significant challenges in the pursuit of supersonic commercial passenger travel. It documents early opposition to the development of supersonic flight, going on to trace Concorde's path to commercial success.... When commercial air services were launched in 1976, Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Flying at speeds in exces... |
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45,87 |
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Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes
ISBN: 9780190248901 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chavez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated great optimism that this technology could lift Peru out of its self-perceived backwardness and transform it into a modern nation. Though poor infrastructure, economic woes, a dearth of technical expertise, and frequent pilot deaths slowed Peru's domestic aviation project, diverse groups saw in airplanes their own visions...
From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chavez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, ...
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451,79 |
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Early Aviation in Long Beach
ISBN: 9781531646424 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1920, when Amelia Earhart attended Earl S. Daugherty's air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach was already a key part of the golden age of aviation. Balloonists had parachuted onto the city's beaches in 1905 near the Pine Avenue Pier, and stunt pilots such as Frank Stites took off and landed on its sands in 1908. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce sponsored the altitude contest won by Arch Hoxsey in the second Los Angeles Air Meet in 1910. Cal Rodgers ended the first transcontinental flight in the water near Linden...
By 1920, when Amelia Earhart attended Earl S. Daugherty's air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate F...
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121,59 |
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The C-5 Galaxy History: Crushing Setbacks, Decisive Achievements
ISBN: 9781681624389 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This book reveals the events that led to the C-5 requirement; and the controversies of its early operational existence. Details of testing, flight characteristics, operational accomplishments and world flight records are presented. Interviews from senior Lockheed management and experienced flight crews validate the C-5's decisive accomplishments.
The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This bo...
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68,23 |
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The C-5 Galaxy History: Crushing Setbacks, Decisive Achievements
ISBN: 9781563117640 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This book reveals the events that led to the C-5 requirement; and the controversies of its early operational existence. Details of testing, flight characteristics, operational accomplishments and world flight records are presented. Interviews from senior Lockheed management and experienced flight crews validate the C-5's decisive accomplishments.
The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft. It remains an essential, successful component of the U.S. military airlife capability. This bo...
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140,45 |
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Cap Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight
ISBN: 9781557536846 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot.The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish's most active years in aviation. During that period, sod runways gave way to asphalt and concrete; navigation...
Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in...
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94,84 |
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Flying the Beam: Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941
ISBN: 9781557536853 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system in place by the time of World War II, this book explores the conceptualization and ultimate construction of the initial US...
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the sys...
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113,84 |
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The Story of Travel Air Makers of Biplanes and Monoplanes
ISBN: 9781937684174 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,22 |
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Commercial Aviation-An Insider's Story
ISBN: 9781489700469 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,28 |
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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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39,87 |
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Wings Over the Aussie Outback
ISBN: 9781494852207 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,91 |
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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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53,03 |
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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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80,63 |
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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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630,22 |
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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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263,41 |
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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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83,62 |
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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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67,81 |
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