Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books
Rocket Billionaires
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Featured on NPR and PBS’s SciTech Now**, and in** Fast Company**,** Forbes**, and the** Wall Street Journal
The inside story of the new race to conquer space
For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative...
The World's Greatest Civil Aircraft
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Commercial air travel began just over a century ago. In that time there have been groundbreaking civilian aircraft, such as flying boats, the first pressurized cabin aircraft, jet and supersonic aircraft, as well as immense changes in the capacity of a typical airliner: in the 1920s aircraft struggled...
A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey
1957 - The Space Race Begins
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them.
When the Soviet Union launched...
by Joseph Dobronski SR.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Nearly everyone is curious about what makes airplanes fly with confidence-giving predictability. Joe Dobronski has risen to the challenge with this master work that will satisfy many aspects of your curiosity. His prose is in a fun-to-read storyteller style, while introducing you to an impressive...
Flying the Beam
Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected...
Out of Orbit
The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above E arth When They Lost Their Ride Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer...
The Hindenburg
a ship of dreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
75 years ago, the explosion at Lakehurst marked a dramatic end to the Golden Days of Lighter-than-Air. The crash of LZ-129 “Hindenburg” was the first disaster to be documented in pictures (one photographer even had Kodak color slide film, which had been developed one year prior), filmed by several...
Freedom 7
The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines...
by Tom D. Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2002
The story of a handful of talented American engineers and adventurers who labored to conquer gravity in a flying machine.
When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a...
Airworthiness
An Introduction to Aircraft Certification
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Airworthiness: An Introduction to Aircraft Certification, Second Edition, offers a practical guide to the regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The discussions include the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This is an essential guide to NASA's next manned rocket for deep space exploration, the Space Launch System (SLS), which was authorized by Congress after the cancellation of the Ares rockets of the Constellation program. In the Block 2 configuration, the rocket will be larger than the famous Saturn...
by Jerry A. Eichenberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Up-to-date advice on legal issues affecting anyone involved in general aviation
Fully revised throughout, General Aviation Law, Third Edition, is an essential legal guide for those who work in aviation, including mechanics, pilots, aircraft owners, and aviation business owners. This practical reference...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the C-5 cargo airplane.
The success of the C-5 transport aircraft is underscored by the performance of the fleet as an operational system and its heavy...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Modelling and Managing Airport Performance provides an integrated view of state-of-the-art research on measuring and improving the performance of airport systems with consideration of both airside and landside operations. The considered facets of performance include capacity, delays, economic costs,...