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Strategic Management in Aviation
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This valuable volume reprints the most important and influential journal articles and papers on aviation management with an extensive introduction by the editor. The volume is designed to improve access to the journal literature for libraries expanding their collections and provide scholars with a...
Aviation and Climate Change
Lessons for European Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
It is generally accepted – the US administration excepted - that the emissions reduction targets agreed in the Kyoto Protocol are only the beginning of what needs to be achieved in international climate negotiations. While studies suggest that major emission reductions by industrialized countries...
by T. O'B. Hubbard, C. C Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Most will agree that the advances made in aviation in little more than a century are remarkable. What was once a dramatic, and often perilous, adventure has become ubiquitous and a barely acknowledged part of modern life. But in 1912, when The Boys' Book of Aeroplanes was published, only nine years...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
This manual, Training Circular TC 3-04.93 Aeromedical Training for Flight Personnel with Change 1 January 2019, provides crewmembers with an understanding of the physiological responses that can occur in the aviation environment. It also describes the effects of the flight environment on individual...
Fatigue in Aviation
A Guide to Staying Awake at the Stick
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This updated edition includes fatigue and sleep definitions as well as strategies for the measurement and assessment of fatigue. The aviation performance, mood, and safety problems associated with sleep restriction and circadian disruptions in operational settings are highlighted. The biological bases...
Simpli-Flying
Optimizing the Airline Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The airline industry is in a state of radical restructuring as its markets and key stakeholders (customers, airline labour and management groups, governments, and the financial community) adjust to the new aviation realities. Airline executives can be forgiven for being overwhelmed by technology proliferation,...
Storm of Eagles
The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war.
Published in association with the National Museum of World War...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In this thoroughly researched and lucidly written volume, Lt. Col. John F. Shiner describes the Air Corps' effort to prepare the nation for war; to gain money, aircraft, and, even more important, independence; and to achieve a capability to wage aerial war. The focus of the work is Maj. Gen. Benjamin...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Unconventional warfare (UW) is an operational concept the United States utilizes to enable resistance movements or insurgencies to coerce or overthrow a government or...
Souvenirs sans gloire
Les confessions d'un pilote de ligne
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Un pilote doit parfois compter sur la chance... Les 14 souvenirs retracés dans ce livre le prouvent à la perfection !
J'aurais pu raconter les vols où j'ai été brillant, génial ou même simplement héroïque. J'ai préféré relater des vols où la chance a pallié mes défaillances....
Aviation Maintenance Technician
Powerplant
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
ASA's "Dale Crane Series" textbooks provide the most complete, up-to-date foundation for Aircraft & Powerplant (A&P) students and educators. The curriculum meets 14 CFR Part 147 course requirements and includes all of the aeronautical knowledge required for the FAA Knowledge Exams...
Practical Safety Management Systems
A Practical Guide to Transform Your Safety Program into a Functioning Safety Management System
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A Safety Management System (SMS) is required for most domestic and international air operations, through either regulatory (14 CFR Parts 5, 119, or 121) or voluntary compliance. The advent of SMS has affected all aviation sectors worldwide, including flight departments, independent contractors who...
by Ruwantissa I.R. Abeyratne
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Aerospace law is seeing a gradual merger between the two previously isolated regimes of human conduct pertaining separately to air and to space law. The use of information technology is arguably the foremost compelling force responsible for the unity of the aviation and space activities of man. It...
Delivering Excellent Service Quality in Aviation
A Practical Guide for Internal and External Service Providers
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A practical and realistic guide for both external and internal service providers in an aviation context to implementing an effective way to control the service quality as perceived by their customers, Delivering Excellent Service Quality in Aviation is essential for those service providers that are...