Is Flying Risky Business?
ISBN: 9781434349057 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A provocative, informative look inside the aviation industry-the problems, the safety concerns, the arrogance. Since September 11th 2001, the airline industry has taken a severe blow to its economic stability. Many changes have been made, but many more still need to come in order to make this industry as safe as it should be. We now see the airline industry starting to stabilize, but at what cost? Are current Federal policies assuring your safety, or are organizations like the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) still able to dictate legislation in Washington? These questions and many others...
A provocative, informative look inside the aviation industry-the problems, the safety concerns, the arrogance. Since September 11th 2001, the airline ...
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Is It Safe?: Why Flying Commercial Airliners Is Still a Risky Business ... and What Can Be Done about It.
ISBN: 9780595490158 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Power-Waters covers every aspect of commercial aviation and brings the reader to the conclusion that it is a much more perilous means of transportation than generally suspected. Most of the material in this book has never been touched upon in any previous book on air safety. The following are a few of the subjects that are documented in this book: There are no U.S. airports that have adequate firefighting procedures. Mechanically impaired airliners are allowed to fly when, in reality, they should be grounded. The flushing of an airline toilet has imperiled the lives of passengers...
Captain Power-Waters covers every aspect of commercial aviation and brings the reader to the conclusion that it is a much more perilous means of trans...
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120,61 zł |
A Europe of the Air?: The Airline Industry and European Integration
ISBN: 9780742526518 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This definitive book offers the first full study of the development of the European Union's air-transport policy. Crucial to both globalization and regional integration, commercial aviation, along with other transport industries, provides the logistics for business activities, political life, and contact between cultures. Paradoxically, however, the airline industry was one of the last to be liberalized in the process of European integration, and the creation of a single market in air transport was attended by sharp political disputes, unreconstructed nationalism, and persistent...
This definitive book offers the first full study of the development of the European Union's air-transport policy. Crucial to both globalization and re...
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517,10 zł |
Pressure Cooker: The Story of the Men and Women Who Control Air Traffic
ISBN: 9780393334562 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Passenger Behaviour
ISBN: 9780754609360 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With 2003 being the 100th anniversary of modern aviation, Passenger Behaviour was published at a milestone for the aviation industry. Remarkable achievements in engineering have made air travel highly accessible within the span of a single lifetime. However, when evolutionary barriers are exceeded various penalties are exacted. The most common experienced by air passengers include motion sickness, jetlag and increased arousal and stress at different stages of flight. Air travel also brings us into closer contact with strangers, making our examination and understanding of the social psychology...
With 2003 being the 100th anniversary of modern aviation, Passenger Behaviour was published at a milestone for the aviation industry. Remarkable achie...
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588,47 zł |
Managing the Skies: Public Policy, Organization and Financing of Air Traffic Management
ISBN: 9780754670452 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, the organization and provision of air traffic control (ATC) services has been dramatically transformed. Privatization and commercialization of air navigation has become commonplace. Far-reaching reforms, under a variety of organizational structures and aviation settings, have occurred across the world, most notably in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In contrast, innovations have lagged behind in other countries - including the United States. In addition, much recent attention has been given to aviation infrastructure and safety in Africa,...
Over the past two decades, the organization and provision of air traffic control (ATC) services has been dramatically transformed. Privatization and c...
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Politics at the Airport
ISBN: 9780816650156 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,29 zł |
Airlines For the Rest Of Us: The Rise and Fall of America's Local Service Airlines
ISBN: 9780595484430 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Small Cities 'to be Hurt Tremendously' by Airline Cuts" "Airline Subsidy Cuts Leave Three Towns Flightless" "No Convenient Route to Buffalo" -actual newspaper headlines, 2007-08 It wasn't always like this. At least, not during the era of the Local Service Airlines. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, these feisty, colorful startups provided a level of service unheard of today, reaching small communities across America. They had to. Encouraged and supported by the Civil Aeronautics Board, these privately-owned companies were mandated to bring reliable scheduled airline transportation-plus...
"Small Cities 'to be Hurt Tremendously' by Airline Cuts" "Airline Subsidy Cuts Leave Three Towns Flightless" "No Convenient Route to Buffalo" -actual ...
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A Pilot's Memoirs-From the Ground Up
ISBN: 9780615240992 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This autobiographical manuscript is the story of the authors life and love for the fascination and sought after world of Aviation that began at the New York World's Fair of 1939 and continued for some 68 years and is still on-going today. This story is unique, in that, it will take you on an exsciting excursion through the super sensitive issues in todays World of Aviation and will take you to places where no other Pilot/Author dares to tread. It will take you down memory lane and behind the locked doors of the Cockpit known as the Inner Santham of No Mans Land. It will provide you with all...
This autobiographical manuscript is the story of the authors life and love for the fascination and sought after world of Aviation that began at the Ne...
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72,26 zł |
Flying Across America
ISBN: 9780806138701 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A colorfully illustrated history of air travel, emphasizing the personal experience of commercial flight
A colorfully illustrated history of air travel, emphasizing the personal experience of commercial flight
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278,18 zł |
Airports: Performance, Risks & Problems
ISBN: 9781606923931 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An airport is a location where aircraft such as aeroplanes, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport. This book brings together important research related to airports.
An airport is a location where aircraft such as aeroplanes, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an...
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885,22 zł |
FAA Airspace Redesign & Congestion Management
ISBN: 9781606927106 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aviation congestion and delay is an issue of long standing. Statistically, there was a significant increase in congestion and delay throughout the national aviation system in 2007. The situation has been especially noticeable at certain key airports, namel
Aviation congestion and delay is an issue of long standing. Statistically, there was a significant increase in congestion and delay throughout the nat...
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Management of the Environmental Impact of Airport Operations
ISBN: 9781604569414 / Angielski / Miękka / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's airports are at times unable to handle the air traffic demand. The busiest airports are already saturated, and there are political and environmental difficulties associated with any further airport expansion. In view of the anticipated growth in air traffic demand, there is a clear need for economically beneficial capacity improvements in an environmentally responsible manner. However, the required capacity growth cannot be achieved by relying on existing technologies, policies and procedures. To provide solutions for environmentally induced capacity bottlenecks, the authors' research...
Today's airports are at times unable to handle the air traffic demand. The busiest airports are already saturated, and there are political and environ...
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271,16 zł |
Protecting Airline Passengers in the Age of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780313354533 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it comes to airline security, there is nothing more important than getting people to their destinations safely. Transportation security is also a key component in the overall mission of protecting the nation against terrorist attacks. But airline security is a tricky goal how do you achieve acceptable levels of security at a reasonable cost and without unduly inconveniencing passengers or invading their privacy? That's exactly what this book is about. Experts examine the latest thinking and analyze the latest research on air passenger security, discuss current practices, and show how... When it comes to airline security, there is nothing more important than getting people to their destinations safely. Transportation security is als... |
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447,34 zł |
The Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Operators and Automation
ISBN: 9780309111614 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Automation in air traffic control may increase efficiency, but it also raises questions about adequate human control over automated systems. Following on the panel's first volume on air traffic control automation, Flight to the Future (NRC, 1997), this book focuses on the interaction of pilots and air traffic controllers, with a growing network of automated functions in the airspace system. Automation in air traffic control may increase efficiency, but it also raises questions about adequate human control over automated systems. Follow... |
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382,44 zł |
Controlled Crash: An Airline Odyssey, from Eels and Ethics to Blimps and Drunken Bears
ISBN: 9781440160325 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,67 zł |
Aspects of International Cooperation in Air Traffic Management
ISBN: 9789041104977 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Aeropolitics
ISBN: 9781608761029 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses about the intrinsic link between aviation and politics. This title addresses the manner in which the world deals with aviation issues and the legal and diplomatic nuances associated with them. It also addresses the role of ICAO, which is dedicated to issues of international civil aviation under the auspices of the United Nations.
Discusses about the intrinsic link between aviation and politics. This title addresses the manner in which the world deals with aviation issues and th...
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501,43 zł |
Sunshine Skies: Historic Commuter Airlines Of Florida And Georgia
ISBN: 9781440424748 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the history of over 70 small airlines that operated in Florida and Georgia from the 1910s through the 1990s. "Sunshine Skies: Historic Commuter Airlines of Florida and Georgia" offers the aviation enthusiast one of the most comprehensive glimpses of what was once one the most colorful and fascinating facets of the airline industry, the commuter. The book addresses in painstaking detail the carriers that transported passengers in some of the most classic, rare and historic aircraft to grace the skies of the Sunshine and Peach States during what was undeniably the independent...
This book traces the history of over 70 small airlines that operated in Florida and Georgia from the 1910s through the 1990s. "Sunshine Skies: Histori...
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90,58 zł |
How Boeing Defied the Airbus Challenge: An Insider's Account
ISBN: 9781450501132 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time since WWII, a European airplane manufacturer, Airbus, not only succeeded in challenging Boeing, the storied American aviation titan, but also nearly crippled the giant-a fate fully realized by McDonnell Douglas, a previous American icon. This book chronicles an insider's account of more than two decades of how Boeing fought back in the extremely fierce, high-stakes, and highly political quest for global aviation supremacy. The book also shows how the industry shapes the regulations and, working with the regulators, how it has changed the direction of aviation.
For the first time since WWII, a European airplane manufacturer, Airbus, not only succeeded in challenging Boeing, the storied American aviation titan...
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76,81 zł |