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by Michael Belafi Belafi, Cordula Werschkun
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the entire course of the airship's history.
Named after the German Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin, an early...
Veteran Lancs
A Photographic Record of the 35 RAF Lancasters that Each Completed One Hundred Sorties
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Aviation historians will know that the Avro Lancaster bomber is the most famous aircraft to have fought with RAF Bomber Command during World War Two. They will know too that, of the 7,366 that were built, over 3,400 were lost on operations and a further 200 plus were destroyed and written-off in crashes....
Canadian Warbird Survivors
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
The purpose of this handbook is to provide aviation enthusiasts with a simple checklist on where to find the surviving retired military aircraft that are preserved in Canada. The majority of the Canadian Warbird Survivors are on display within a great number of well maintained aviation museums, many...
Covert Radar and Signals Interception
The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication Research Establishment, Boscombe Down, with an honorary...
Airlines at War
British Civil Aviation 1939–1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict – the men and women of the civilian airlines.
The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was formed shortly...
The Global Navigation Satellite System
Navigating into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book constitutes a valuable guide to the implementation of the CNS/ATM system towards ensuring safe, efficient and orderly evolution of international air transport. It uses a pragmatic approach in addressing the major legal, institutional, technical, political and economic aspects underlying the...
The Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the flight represented the culmination of a dream he’d cultivated since his childhood in the 1930s.
Eileen...
Five Down, No Glory
Frank G. Tinker, Merenary Ace in the Spanish Civil
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Frank G. Tinker, Jr. was the top American ace flying under contract with the Spanish Republican Air Force in the Spanish Civil War. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Class of 1933, he went into combat with Soviet airmen during the war. Through sheer perseverance, he rose from a teenage enlisted seaman,...
Steam in the Air
The Application of Steam Power in Aviation during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Scientific investigation into manned flight began early in the 19th Century at a time when steam power was the only transportable propulsion generator available to the many pioneer flying-machine designers of the day. This unique history of the attempts, failures and successes to master the art of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book provides a comprehensive history of U.S. Air Force civil engineers from 1907 through 2012. In 1941, Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said "Air bases are a determining factor in the success of air operations....
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A French built Caravelle III jet leased to Middle East Airlines of Beirut, Lebanon crashed on the edge of the Persian Gulf during a violent sandstorm on April 17, 1964. No survivors among a large group of Arabian American Oil Company personnel and their families were found. The wreckage of Flight...
by Martin W Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
The Wellington Bomber was omnipresent during the Second World War, employed in a variety of contexts in the fight against the Axis powers. The pilots who flew this aircraft did so with an immense amount of pride, and there is perhaps no-one better placed to tell the story of this incredible aircraft...
by Don Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Taking an integrated, systems approach to dealing exclusively with the human performance issues encountered on the flight deck of the modern airliner, this book describes the inter-relationships between the various application areas of human factors, recognising that the human contribution to the...
by Anne R. Isaac, Bert Ruitenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
From the Foreword by Captain Daniel Maurino, ICAO: '...Air Traffic Control...will remain a technology-intensive system. People (controllers) must harmoniously interact with technology to contribute to achieve the aviation system’s goals of safe and efficient transportation of passengers and cargo...This...