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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In this extremely comprehensive overview of airlift and air mobility, Colonel Miller shows how the worldwide orientation of American foreign policy, the numerous threats to free-world interests, and the speed and complexity of modern warfare have combined with political and resource constraints to...
Spyplanes
The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky."
For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the...
The Pilot's Manual: Multi-Engine Flying
All the aeronautical knowledge required to earn a multi-engine rating on your pilot certificate
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is the Ebook (epub) edition of this title.
Multi-engine flying opens up new opportunities to utilize an airplane for personal or professional transportation, allowing you to cruise faster, carry more passengers or cargo, and in most cases, fly higher and in greater comfort. With this enhanced...
The World's Greatest Military Aircraft
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. The World’s Greatest Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years.The...
Surviving Bomber Aircraft of World War Two
A Global Guide to Location and Types
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft in aviation museums throughout the world. Each double page spread contains a color 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.
The...
by Barrett Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The US Marine Corps has a long heritage of aviation excellence, a reputation that was largely built on the impact and performance of the "flying leathernecks†? in the bitter fighting in the Pacific during World War II. As the US island-hopping campaign against Japan gathered pace, US Marine...
by Gregg Brightwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
This is the eBook (epub) edition of this title.Earning a flight instructor certificate (CFI) from the FAA is challenging and requires an immense amount of training and preparation and this book clarifies, in plain language, exactly what flight instructor applicants must know and demonstrate during the...
by Lucas van Gerwen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is the first authoritative work to examine the psychological determinants and effects associated with the 'fear of flying'. The contents include: · the extent and nature of the problem of fear of flying; · understanding public perceptions of safety associated with flying; · assessment...
by Mike Paull
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
True Stories of Pilots and the Brotherhood That Binds Them A collection of short stories to be enjoyed by pilots and non-pilots alike. "Tales from the Sky Kitchen Cafe" is a book of aviation based stories, which are not merely tales about flying, but are stories that go beyond aviation to tell of friendship,...
Unfreeze Your Bird
The Story of Sun'n Fun the International Fly-In and Aviation Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Bud Davidson recalls his own 25 years of volunteering. Using interviews, the story builds on the experiences of many others that led a small weekend fly-in to become an international multi-million dollar event. Sources include little known debates that are documented in the minutes of Board and Executive...
Flying Canucks
Famous Canadian Aviators
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation’s history.
As early as 1908, having read the Wright brothers’ invention, Alberta farm boys and mechanics in Quebec villages were constructing large...
by James D’Angina
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
With over 12,500 produced, the Vought F4U Corsair is one of the icons of mid-20th century military aviation. It was as a Marine Corps aircraft that the Corsair was to become famous, fighting through World War II and Korea. Able to outperform its contemporaries, notably the A6M Zero, the Corsair combined...
Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30
And The Winter In Siberia For Eielson and Borland
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book follows the careers of Alaska's pioneering pilots, who, with cranky open-cockpit biplanes, started the great change in Alaska's way of travel. Aviation first arrived at Fairbanks, the trade center of mainland Alaska, from which dog sled trails spider-web to mines, villages, and trap-lines....
by James Hamilton-Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air.
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly...