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Drones
Safety Risk Management for the Next Evolution of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book is an everything-included approach to understanding drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft, and outlining the process of safety to protect that program. It is the first-of-a-kind safety-focused text book for unmanned aircraft operations, providing the reader with...
by Jill Blee
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The idea of flying like the birds in the sky was a fantasy until the men of science began unlocking the mysteries of the universe in the 15th century. Innovation was then needed but by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century men and machines were taking to the air successfully in Europe,...
London's Airports
Useful Information on Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and City
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use London’s main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transport...
Hidden Warbirds
The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII's Lost Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
"If you only have room in your collection for one book on WWII-era warbird wreck histories and recoveries, then it should be this one. Nicholas Veronico’s thorough research and clear, concise writing style makeHidden Warbirdsa fascinating joy to read." -Alan Griffith, author ofConsolidated...
Walking on Air
The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Aviation pioneer Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie (1902-1975) was once one of the most famous women in America. In the 1930s, her words and photographs were splashed across the front pages of newspapers across the nation. The press labeled her "second only to Amelia Earhart among America's women pilots," and...
by Kent Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Westchester County Airport is referred to by the International Air Transport Association as HPN or, more endearingly by its patrons, White Plains Airport. The airport is unique in that it has the feel of a rural or regional airport but is within the New York metro area. Today, the airport bustles with...
"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot
Navigating the Century of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly...
Follow Me Through
The Ups and Downs of a RAF Flying Instructor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Following his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike Brooke was dispatched to become a flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. "Follow him through," he would instruct his trainees, as he experienced the quite literal ups and downs of teaching the Glasgow and Strathclyde...
by Mike Phipp
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain's major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine, were based in Cowes and Woolston respectively. The area has been home to flying boats of Imperial Airways and, latterly, BOAC and Aquila Airways. With...
From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde
The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
For a quarter of a century from 1950, George Edwards was the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military. His name is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the world's first turboprop airliner, and the Concorde, for which he led the British team throughout its formative period to...
BAC One-Eleven
The Whole Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
One of the bestselling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC 1-11 took to the skies for the first time in August 1963, with an order book for 60 aircraft. More than half the orders were from the United States, an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The only aircraft wholly...
The ATL-98 Carvair
A Comprehensive History of the Aircraft and All 21 Airframes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes and two DC-4 airliners into a small fleet of air ferries by Aviation Traders of Southend, England, the Carvair allowed commercial air passengers to accompany their automobiles onboard the aircraft....
Boeing 707 Group
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Boeing 707 family - that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720 - was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design...
by Malcolm Fife
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the decades leading up to the 1970s, passenger air transport was the preserve of the well-to-do who flew on airliners driven by propellers. Over the next few years all this was about to change. The passenger air transport industry underwent a great transformation with the introduction of many innovations...