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Beyond Flight Training
Adventures and opportunities for the newly certificated pilot
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Earning the FAA Private Pilot license is a great achievement—now, expand your initial training to go Beyond Flight Training. The real excitement begins when the flight instructor lets go of your hand and you’re left to set your own goals and create your own motivations. This book, Beyond Flight...
Military Aviation in the First World War
The Aces of the Allies and the Central Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This beautifully illustrated book provides details of every power that took part in Military aircraft activity during the First World War. The war was a global conflict with 57 nations involved but with aviation being in its infancy only eight nations had a major air arm to their fighting Services....
The Airbus A380
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Every 7 minutes, an A380 takes off or lands somewhere in the world...
The Airbus was initially designed and developed in order to provide a contender to the Boeing's growing monopoly of the skies in the biggest large-aircraft market in the world. Ambitious in design, the undertaking seemed mammoth....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. For all the ink spilled over remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) technology, knowledge of RPA culture remains in its infancy. Continuing the debate about culture, we argue first for the urgency...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, examines the underappreciated work of Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner and his contributions to the airlift element of airpower. Throughout the brief history of military aviation and the United States Air...
by Seth Young, Robert M. Horonjeff, Francis X. McKelvey
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Authoritative, Up-to-Date Coverage of Airport Planning and Design
Fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic text offers definitive guidance on every aspect of planning, design, engineering, and renovating airports...
Lesson Plans to Train Like You Fly
A flight instructor's reference for scenario-based training
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This guide for flight instructors presents lesson plans in the form of scenario-based “maneuver briefings.” A rich resource for active instructors, these lesson plans are also helpful to CFI applicants preparing their own materials. Lesson Plans can also be used as a companion book for flight...
Remote Pilot Airman Certification Standards
FAA-S-ACS-10A, for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This ACS book from the FAA lists the standards and requirements for the Remote Pilot Certificate, issued for operating drones and small unmanned aircraft systems in the National Airspace System. The new Airman Certification Standards are ideal for checkride preparation, and will help applicants develop...
Blind Landing
Sydney to London Dead Stop
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Blind Landing is a detective mystery aviation thriller about the latest super jumbo aircraft that crashes at London Airport after a non-stop flight from Sydney. The story is woven around an aviation expert, Peter Talbert, his lawyer girl friend and the beautiful girl on the beach in Sydney who gives...
Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two
Fighters: A Globel Guide to Location and Types
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world. Each DPS contains a colour photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in mono) and a textual resume of the type with statistics.
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The Rarified Air of the Modern
Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chávez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated great optimism that this technology...
Aviation Disasters
The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Investigating every type of calamity—including those caused by weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain, and hostile action—this is a jarring compendium of some of history’s most devastating aviation catastrophes. The first incident of sabotage involving a commercial jetliner...
by William K. Kershner
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
This is the Ebook (ePub) Edition of this title.
The ultimate volume in the Kershner Flight Manuals Series, The Advanced Pilot's Flight Manual is for pilots transitioning to advanced models and types, and preparing for their Commercial Pilot knowledge and flight tests. It bridges the gap between...
by Don Berliner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Don Berliner, a prolific aviation author, puts pen to paper once again to provide us with a definitive overview of the most important, influential, and iconic racing aircraft of the last century. The book looks at the incredible variety, growth, and rapid expansion of this area of aviation design...