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by Bill Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
‘A Lifetime in Longhaul — The Bigger Picture’ is an opportunity to look into the fascinating world of longhaul aviation. In this latest book, ‘A Lifetime in Longhaul — The Bigger Picture’ Bill Anderson includes the stories from seven senior Qantas Captains and four long serving senior ground...
by Gib Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Since its first flight on 15 December 2009, the Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' has been the most sophisticated airliner in the world. It uses many advanced new technologies to offer unprecedented levels of performance with minimal impact on the environment. Flying the Boeing 787 gives a pilot's eye view...
Aviation at the Edge
42 Years of Comradeship, Tragedy and Adrenaline Fuelled Life in the Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Three thousand feet above the Zambian bush, the DHC2 Beaver had only ten minutes' fuel remaining. Night was drawing in; ground features were indiscernible. I could not raise anyone on the radio. Would this be the end? John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy...
Taking to the Skies
Daredevils, heroes and hijackings, great Australian flying stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a future civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball?
From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story...
by Mark Gerchick
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
"Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?
In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience...
Dangerous Lessons And Guardian Angels
An Airline Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
DANGEROUS LESSONS AND GUARDIAN ANGELS is an action packed true adventure book that spans thirty-five years of airline flying. Stories about transporting guns to Biafra, flying cargo up and down the Berlin corridor during the cold war, and flying sensitive missions, deep into Russia.Fasten your seatbelt...
Black Box
Inside the World's Worst Air Crashes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The smash-hit bestseller about the world's worst air crashes and the disaster detectives who pick through the wreckage to find out why they happened - now fully revised and updated, with 30% new material. From the early tragedies of the Comet and the DC10 to the modern-day horror of the Concorde...
"Tales" from the Tarmac
An Astonishing "Behind the Scenes" Anthology of True Cases About Passengers and Ground Staff at Airports Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Tales From The Tarmac...compelling, "behind the scenes" stories of the outlandish and bizarre interactions and incidents between passengers and ground staff at one of the world's most intimidating airports, New York's JFK and beyond. These actual tales take you on an emotionlal roller coaster,...
by Ray Ronan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five.
But why?
Seconds...
Empire Express
Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively...
Steam & Cinders
The Advent of Railroads in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil...
by Jeff Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
US Navy rail operations on Oahu began in 1908 with construction railroads used to help build the shipyard. Expansion of Pearl Harbor to include the submarine base and the naval magazine on Kuahua Island required a permanent railroad, which was begun in 1911. This construction provided industrial employment...
The Great American Railroad War
How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took On the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed...
by Walt Vielbaum, Philip Hoffman, Grant Ute
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city�s early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged...