Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books

First published in 1912. A Practical Book Which Shows ... How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship. According to the Preface: "This book is written for the guidance of the novice in aviation--the man who seeks practical information as to the theory, construction and operation of the modern flying...

L’avventura dell’uomo nello spazio, dalla fase pionieristica a quella odierna, attraverso i numerosi successi ma, anche, le tragedie che hanno segnato il progresso dell’astronautica.

Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, moving on to examine the work of Froude and Taylor, the early aviators and the Wright Brothers, Goddard and the other rocket men, and the computational fluid dynamic...

A stunning, unprecedented collection of photographs and essays that goes behind the scenes at NASA, in which the humanity of the astronauts, engineers, scientists, technicians, and ground crews that contributed in saving the Hubble Space Telescope are revealed. Michael Soluri has been photographing...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique collection of government documents provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of current and planned American weather satellites, with material from NOAA, NASA, and independent reviews of the troubled replacement...

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of this aircraft. Contents: C-32B Operations Procedures * C-32B Aircrew Evaluation Criteria * C-32B Aircrew Training Chapter 1 * GENERAL INFORMATION * 1.1. General * 1.2. Applicability * 1.3. Key Words Explained...

Featuring aerospace examples and applications, Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Systems presents the very latest probabilistic techniques for accurate and efficient dynamic system reliability analysis. While other books cover more broadly the reliability techniques and challenges related to large systems,...

This report, released by NASA in late June 2018, provides the results of a vital independent review board report on the status of the troubled James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project. The results were quite dramatic: the launch date for the telescope has been delayed to March 2021, and the cost...

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of this aircraft. B-52 Operations Procedures - Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION * 1.1. Aircrew Responsibility * 1.2. Deviations * 1.3. References * 1.4. Waivers * 1.5. Instruction Changes * Chapter 2 * MISSION PLANNING * 2.1....

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of the E-4 aircraft. Contents: Operations Procedures * Aircrew Evaluation Criteria * Aircrew Training Chapter 1 * GENERAL INFORMATION * 1.1. General * 1.2. Applicability * 1.3. Key Words Explained * 1.4. Deviations...

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of this aircraft. B-1 Operations Procedures - This volume establishes effective and safe operations of the B-1 and implements Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 11-2, Aircraft Rules and Procedures; AFPD 11-4, Aviation...

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of the E-9 range control aircraft. Contents: Operations Procedures * Aircrew Evaluation Criteria * Aircrew Training Chapter 1 * INTRODUCTION * 1.1. Aircrew's Responsibility * 1.2. Deviations * 1.3. Waivers * 1.4....

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of this aircraft. Contents: C-21 Operations Procedures - C-21 Aircrew Evaluation Criteria - C-21 Aircrew Training

Three Air Force documents provide unique information about USAF operations of this aircraft. Operations Procedures - This AFI provides guidelines and restrictions for AC-130 operations and applies to AC-130 aircrews at all management levels concerned with operation of the AC-130. It is a compilation...