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Inside Aviation Photography
Techniques for In the Air & On the Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Enjoy over 120 images of aviation crafts in the sky, in near space, and on the ground
Find out how images are captured: in flight, lighting, equipment, and special techniques
Learn about amazing aircraft and spacecraft and the stories behind their image capture
by Ben Daley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and...
Born of Adversity
Britain's Airlines 1919-1963
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
What was it like to fly on British airliners before the Second World War? And why did you have to change planes so often? And why did the Conservatives nationalise the airlines, and Labour open up civil aviation for free enterprise? Born of Adversity looks at the paradoxes of aviation policy from...
Noel Merrill Wien
Born to Fly
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The Wien family is one of the “royal” families of Alaska with a well-respected, well-connected, long history of amazing aviation feats.
Includes 50 black-and-white photos from Merrill’s personal collection.
This book shares a lifetime of adventures told from Merrill’s firsthand experiences of...
by Federal Aviation Administration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This is the new 2015 edition of the FAA's previous "Instrument Procedures Handbook" (previously the FAA-H-8083-16).
This book covers all of the information needed to operate safely within the airspace system. In the FAA's "Instrument Procedures Handbook" (#FAA-H-8083-16A) the emphasis is placed...
by Chad O’Neill
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
1996 was the worst year in avaiation history I redesigned all aircraft in 1996 1997-today are the safest years in aviation history My aircraft innovation that caused this crash reduction was submitted through the US Congress in early 1996. 14,000 people are alive today because of my invention that...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this FM is the Army's doctrine for how to fight and sustain assault helicopter battalions (AHBs) and general support aviation battalions (GSABs). The operational concepts described in this manual are based on Army doctrine...
The Crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22
Completing the Record of the 1967 Midair Collision Near Hendersonville, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commercial aviation in the 1960s was in a perilous state. In July 1967, when a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a Cessna 310 over Hendersonville, North Carolina, killing 82 people, the industry...
by Federal Aviation Administration
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
A must read for every pilot!
For decades, the FAA's Airplane Flying Handbook has served as the foundational resource on the numerous flight maneuvers fixed-wing pilots must master. This heavily updated version has been expanded to address new areas of concern including runway incursion avoidance,...
Aviation Training
Learners, Instruction and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book is in three parts, which consider training from the perspective of the learner, the instructor and the organization. Its intended readership includes civil and military training and senior pilots, flying instructors, check pilots, CRM facilitators, Human Factors and safety departments, and...
An Aviator's Field Guide to Middle-Altitude Flying
Practical skills and tips for flying between 10,000 and 25,000 feet MSL
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In "An Aviator's Field Guide to Middle-Altitude Flying" author Jason Blair shares his experience in a variety of piston twin-engine aircraft regularly used to fly in middle-altitudes, typically between 10,000’ MSL and 25,000’ MSL. This book describes major phases of flight and considerations...
Teaching Flight
Guidance for Instructors Creating Pilots (EPUB Ebook edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Beginning or part-time flight instructors are not always fully aware of what to expect as a student pilot progresses through the flight training process. In "Teaching Flight: Guidance for Instructors Creating Pilots” author LeRoy Cook lends his half-century of experience as a guide to motivate,...
by F. H. Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
First published in 1922, written by a major-general, former chief of the ir staff. The introduction begins: " Since the earliest communities of human beings first struggled for supremacy and protection, the principles of warfare have remained unchanged. New methods have been evolved and adopted...
Around the World in 175 Days
The First Round-the-World Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records....