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Fall of an Arrow
ISBN: 9781550024531 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs to that time were $340 million. The Arrow was to be the world s unsurpassed interceptor aircraft. Yet within two months of the Prime Minister s announcement, six completed aircraft were dismantled and all papers and documents associated with the project were destroyed. Here is the history and development of the Arrow - the plane that would make Canada the leader in supersonic flight technology. The Arrow was designed to fly at twice the... On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs... |
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56,47 zł |
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Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space
ISBN: 9781560252511 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Wild Blue" collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. From the soaring to the harrowing, these accounts put readers right in the cockpit. 16 photos.
"Wild Blue" collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. From the soaring t...
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120,45 zł |
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Taking Off: A Century of Manned Flight
ISBN: 9781563476105 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2003 marks the centennial of manned flight, a major anniversary for an Earth-shattering accomplishment. The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.
2003 marks the centennial of manned flight, a major anniversary for an Earth-shattering accomplishment. The papers contained in this volume were prese...
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97,13 zł |
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Aviation's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities
ISBN: 9781574886740 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight--of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviation's Most Wanted(TM) The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities. With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable planes, famous and infamous aviators, aircraft combat, air travel--even space travel--and so much more, Ruffin provides a treasure trove of fun facts and amazing anecdotes celebrating the...
Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight--of just taking off and so...
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86,72 zł |
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The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Amazing Tales from the Sky
ISBN: 9781592284818 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had constructed to a distance less than the length of the wingspan of today's 747 jet. They made three other flights the same day, the final lasting 59 seconds for a distance over the ground of 852 feet. The world would never be the same after that day. Mankind was finally off the ground in powered flight. And man's experiences in the air would forevermore join the literature of human endeavors, to be...
At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the mo...
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82,32 zł |
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The N.P.M.W.A.R.A.
ISBN: 9781597522816 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,29 zł |
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Aufklarer Volume One: Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft and Units 1935-1941
ISBN: 9781857802689 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume covers the Luftwaffe aircraft and operations of the reconnaissance units from their origins in clandestine survey and photographic work over Poland and the United Kingdom in the late 1930s through to their first operational use during the Spanish Civil War.
Also included in the book will be an overview of the related Wekusta or weather reconnaissance units. This two-part work will be welcomed by many modelers, aviation enthusiasts and historians who are fascinated by the aircraft, colors and markings, and operations of the Luftwaffe throughout the Second World... This first volume covers the Luftwaffe aircraft and operations of the reconnaissance units from their origins in clandestine survey and photographic w...
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87,92 zł |
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Before the Jets
ISBN: 9781930493902 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE TIME - From the end of World War II to the beginning of the jet age. THE PLACE - The world, across the Atlantic and the Pacific. THE PEOPLE - Pilots, navigators and air crewmen of US Navy Transport Squadrons. 'Before the Jets' traces the lives of brave men who master aircraft prone to mechanical failure, the elements and even superiors with mediocre flying skills. It was a time when men were learning to span the continents and the great oceans with transport aircraft one step beyond the Di3. A time when men still used their knowledge and instincts and where human error occurred all too...
THE TIME - From the end of World War II to the beginning of the jet age. THE PLACE - The world, across the Atlantic and the Pacific. THE PEOPLE - Pilo...
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233,65 zł |
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Supermarine Seafire
ISBN: 9781861269904 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Always overshadowed by its far more famous sibling the Spitfire, the Seafire was an aircraft adapted initially in haste to fill a large gap in the Fleet Air Arm's fighter inventory. This book provides information on the aircraft, comparing it to Spitfire.
Always overshadowed by its far more famous sibling the Spitfire, the Seafire was an aircraft adapted initially in haste to fill a large gap in the Fle...
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137,29 zł |
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The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
ISBN: 9780553383522 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments--including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson's Bronco--the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who contributed to the development of this amazing machine, and pays tribute to the selfless heroism of pilots and crews. A virtual flying lesson and scientific adventure tale, The God Machine is more than the history... From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of... |
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91,29 zł |
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Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers Versus the United States Government
ISBN: 9780786443321 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone knows that the Wright brothers were the first to fly, but few people know that they were engaged in a David and Goliath struggle with their own Federal Government. This book tells the story of the struggle between the Wright brothers and the Federal Government, and the raw ambition, high ideals, and cloak and dagger tactics of each side.
Everyone knows that the Wright brothers were the first to fly, but few people know that they were engaged in a David and Goliath struggle with their o...
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188,57 zł |
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Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929
ISBN: 9780820332147 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1918 to 1929 American aviation progressed through the pioneering era, establishing the pattern of its impact on national security, commerce and industry, communication, travel, geography, and international relations. In America, as well as on a global basis, society experienced a dramatic transformation from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional one. By 1929 aviation was poised at the threshold of a new epoch. Covering both military and civil aviation trends, Roger Bilstein's study highlights these developments, explaining how the pattern of aviation activities in the 1920s... From 1918 to 1929 American aviation progressed through the pioneering era, establishing the pattern of its impact on national security, commerce an... |
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169,52 zł |
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Last Flight - Amelia Earhart's Flying adventures
ISBN: 9781906393144 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amelia Earhart was twice the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air: initially in 1928 as a passenger just a year after Lindbergh's pioneering flight and then in 1932 flying solo. Like her contemporaries Amy Johnson and Beryl Markham she was featured in all the fashionable magazines of the day as a symbol of the new independent woman. The list of records Amelia established reads like a catalogue of aviation history and includes the first flights from Hawaii to California and from California to Mexico. In 1937 she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world, but...
Amelia Earhart was twice the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air: initially in 1928 as a passenger just a year after Lindbergh's pioneering fligh...
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97,38 zł |
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The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings
ISBN: 9780061259203 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines that enabled humankind to defy gravity. A fascinating true account certain to enthrall and delight aviation and technology buffs, The Airplane is lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs and is the first book ever to explore the development of the jetliner through a fascinating piece-by-piece analysis of the machinery...
The Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum...
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78,20 zł |
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Forgotten First Flights
ISBN: 9781441510921 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,25 zł |
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Forgotten First Flights
ISBN: 9781441510938 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,26 zł |
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Newark Airport
ISBN: 9780738565224 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newark Airport was the first major airport in the New York metropolitan area. It opened on October 1, 1928, occupying an area of filled-in marshland. In 1935, Amelia Earhart dedicated the Newark Airport Administration Building, which was North America s first commercial airline terminal. Newark was the busiest airport in the world until LaGuardia Airport, in New York, opened in 1939. During World War II, Newark was closed to passenger traffic and controlled by the United States Army Air Force for logistics operations. The Port Authority of New York took over the airport in 1948 and made major...
Newark Airport was the first major airport in the New York metropolitan area. It opened on October 1, 1928, occupying an area of filled-in marshland. ...
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108,63 zł |
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Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia
ISBN: 9780521130431 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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154,52 zł |
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The Frigate And The Lugger V1: A Nautical Romance (1861)
ISBN: 9781437392821 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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218,84 zł |
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Ralph Rutherford V1: A Nautical Romance (1851)
ISBN: 9780548869123 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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150,69 zł |
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