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by Richard L. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is a thorough description of this increasingly important technology, starting from the development of head-up displays (HUDs), particularly specifications and standards and operational problems associated with HUD use. HUD involvement in spatial disorientation and its use in recognizing and recovering...
Winged Chariot
A Complete Account of the RAF's Support Role During the Victorious Command Raid on St Nazaire, March 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
In what has been described as ‘the greatest raid of them all’, Operation Chariot saw heavy destruction of the enemy-occupied port of St Nazaire by British forces. Winged Chariot examines the role that the RAF played during this epic raid on 28th March 1942. With focus on the planning and actions...
From Night Flak to Hijack
It's a Small World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This is the autobiography of Reginald Levy, a British pilot who reached a total of 25,090 flying hours in over 40 years of civil, military, and commercial aviation. He recounts his training and military operations as an RAF pilot during the Second World War. He flies 44 types of aircraft between 1941...
The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies
The eppeasement of Stalin and its post-war consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organised in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy...
Rassurez-vous, vous êtes en de bonnes mains
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Permis de piloter
De l'utilité du simulateur pour découvrir qu'en six mois, un pilote opérationnel peut devenir totalement incompétent.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière...
Michel au pays des Soviets
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Panique au décollage !
L'explosion d'un moteur au décollage de Moscou donne l'occasion de découvrir qu' Hergé n'a rien inventé dans sa description des pays de l'Est…
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques...
Un vrai vol d'essai
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Cohabitation en plein en vol entre un pilote chevronné et un apprenti
Après le remplacement de ses ailes, un Boeing 737 doit subir un vol d'essai. Dans cette histoire, l'équipage est "mixte". Ce sont deux cultures qui cohabitent : d'une part, un pilote habitué aux vols d'essais,...
Target fascination
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
De la parfaite maîtrise du pilote d'avion pour éviter la catastrophe
Comment on peut frôler l'accident, sans commettre d'imprudence, simplement en se concentrant à l'excès sur un point précis au lieu de conserver une vue d'ensemble.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer...
Tel est pris…
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Comment calmer ses ardeurs de jeune pilote en quelques pages
Un vol d'essai permet à deux des pilotes les plus expérimentés de la compagnie et à l'équipe d'ingénieurs qui les accompagne de se rendre compte que l'excès nuit en tout, même l'excès d'expérience.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh...
Next time, don't forget Seven Up
Nouvelles autobiographiques
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Escale à Paris pour Michel Vanvaerenbergh
Comment, lors d'une escale arrosée à Paris, la carrière de l'auteur fut sauvée par le sens du "service au citoyen" des forces de l'ordre.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques,...
Heathrow Airport
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom’s largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK’s primary port by value.
This fascinating...
by Federal Aviation Administration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Flight Navigator Handbook provides information on all phases of air navigation and is a source of reference for everyone in the field, from navigators to navigator students.
This handbook explains how to measure, chart the earth, and use flight instruments to solve basic navigation problems....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication examines the 1930s Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the nurturing ground for American air doctrine. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons
The Final Blitz of London
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and nighttime raids by the then mighty Luftwaffe; raids which killed some 20,000 people and destroyed or damaged one million homes during what came to be known as the London Blitz. A ‘baby...