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Airline Pilot Technical Interviews
A Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
A study guide to instill confidence for a successful airline checkride All kinds of technical questions can be asked in an airline interview…yet there is a specific approach a pilot applicant should take in preparing for this part of the hiring process. In this book, author Ron McElroy gives readers...
Helicopter Pilot Oral Exam Guide
When used with the corresponding Oral Exam Guide, this book prepares you for the oral portion of the Private, Instrument, Commercial, Flight Instructor, or ATP Helicopter Checkride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This indispensable tool prepares helicopter pilots for their one-on-one checkride with an FAA examiner. Answers to the most commonly asked questions, clarification on the requirements of the written and oral portions, and study material for the exam are provided, and topics covered include certification...
by Robert N. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
THE BEST RESOURCE A PILOT CAN HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO FLY IN ALL TYPES OF WEATHER
How do you improve on the best guide for pilots to learn how to fly in all kinds of weather? The answer is the Fifth Edition of Weather Flying. Regarded as the bible of weather flying, this aviation classic not only...
Microsoft® Flight Simulator as a Training Aid
a guide for pilots, instructors, and virtual aviators
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Bruce williams takes Microsoft Flight Simulator to its highest level as a flight training tool. Applicable to both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (Version 9) and Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Version 10), this is a guide for anyone who wants to maximize their real or virtual...
Multi-Engine Oral Exam Guide
The comprehensive guide to prepare you for the FAA checkride
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Study guide to help applicants pass the required FAA Oral & Practical Exam to obtain a pilot's license or advanced rating. It is like a preview of the FAA exam (or "checkride"), which is required by the FAA for all pilot license applicants, to be given by a checkride instructor, one-on-one...
Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide
The comprehensive guide to prepare you for the FAA checkride
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Updated to reflect vital FAA regulatory, procedural, and training changes, this indispensable tool prepares private pilots for the "checkride" with an FAA examiner. It answers the most common questions asked by examiners, clarifies the requirements of the written and oral portions, and presents...
The Flatpack Bombers
The Royal Navy and The Zeppelin Menace
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Our vision of aviation in the First World War is dominated by images of gallant fighter pilots duelling with each other high over the Western Front. But it was the threat of the Zeppelin which spurred the British government into creating the Royal Flying Corps, and it was this 'menace', which no aircraft...
Naval Aviation in the Korean War
Aircraft, Ships, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The first part of this book covers the role of US aircraft carriers and aircraft in stopping the North Korean initial push to the south and also their role in the famous Inchon Landing and Pusan Perimeter Break out. The last part of the first chapter deals with naval operations during the Marine's...
Home is the Halifax
An Extraordinary Account of Re-building a Classic WWII Bomber and Creating the Yorkshire Air Museum to House It
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Between 1935 and 1945, Yorkshire became home to 41 military airfields, the majority located in the Vale of York. The area was often referred to as a land-based aircraft carrier. The author, aged 16, became involved in this vast aviation activity when he started work with the Handley Page aircraft...
by David Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A wide-ranging history of the Vampire throughout its 46-year service history with the RAF, Fleet Air Arm and twenty-nine foreign air forces. A story that is of interest to aviation historians and those with a fascination in early jet aircraft, which also includes a new lease of life on the Warbirds...
MiG Master
The Story of the F-8 Crusader
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
To be equally enjoyed by professional aviators and aviation buffs with limited technical knowledge, this biography brings to life the legendary aircraft that scored the highest kill ratio of any U.S. fighter aircraft in the Vietnam War. The book is filled with authentic re-creations of Crusader-MiG fights...
Jet Wars in the Nuclear Age
1972 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book explores the era of the 1970s right up to the present day, illustrating how
fighter-bombers and tactics have developed and evolved during this time. It covers all the most significant military conflicts that have characterised this era, including the Eleven Day War of Christmas 1972 in Vietnam...
Inside the Wright Brothers
Flight Is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
This novel, presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite, accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the straight arrow that allows...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication is a comprehensive history of the origin of America's Air National Guard, covering the years 1943-1969.From the beginning of military aviation, the National Guard was interested and...