Skytrucker: Incidents, accidents and romantic attachments gathered over forty years in Aviation
ISBN: 9780595247295 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How Lost Is Lost?: Logbook of wacky aviation humor
ISBN: 9780595305865 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here's aviation humor with a twist of fun Sift through a flight attendant's logbook. Discover what really goes on in the cockpit of a major airline. Learn the real differences between male and female pilots. Enjoy an aviation fashion show featuring funny black and white photos. There's even jokes about CFI's and student pilots and ATC
Keller brings a refreshing style of humor to the world of aviation. First officer: "Captain, do you think we can break the sound barrier with all of this luggage?"
Here's aviation humor with a twist of fun Sift through a flight attendant's logbook. Discover what really goes on in the cockpit of a major airline. ...
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Contrails: The Memoirs of a Pilot
ISBN: 9780595336913 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last year of his career as an American Airlines captain, Roger Thompson met a man who claimed military experience identical to his own. The man was an imposter, but the incident inspired "Contrails," a collection of aviation stories spanning Mr. Thompson's 37-year career. Some of the stories in "Contrails" are tragic; some are exciting. All are true.
"Contrails" includes Mr. Thompson's introduction to aviation, a discussion of the 1960's military draft, and a description of the training regimen and assorted aircraft mishaps associated with naval aviation. It describes jet combat... In the last year of his career as an American Airlines captain, Roger Thompson met a man who claimed military experience identical to his own. The man...
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A Field Guide to Airplanes, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780618411276 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extending the principles of the famed Peterson Identification System to the man-made world, A Field Guide to Airplanes will enable you to identify virtually any plane in North America, in the air or on the ground. This fully revised and updated third edition features more than 400 aircraft, including 75 new planes that incorporate the latest advances in general aviation, military aircraft, commercial airliners, business jets, and helicopters. Beautiful and accurate illustrations include arrows and detailed drawings to help pinpoint the differences between similar models. Clear, succinct...
Extending the principles of the famed Peterson Identification System to the man-made world, A Field Guide to Airplanes will enable you to identify vir...
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79,36 zł |
Government Birds: Air Transport and the State in Western Europe
ISBN: 9780742501249 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Usually described as 'state' industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But this view begs the question of why and how the state became involved in air transport, as well as the question of whether airlines could have succeeded in Europe and elsewhere without government support. The first comparative study of the complicated history of relations between the state and the air transport industry in Europe, the book travels from the earliest scheduled flights down to the era of liberalization and privatization in the 1990s. Martin Staniland...
Usually described as 'state' industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But this view begs the q...
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334,72 zł |
Last of the Flying Clippers: The Boeing B-314 Story
ISBN: 9780764305627 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finally, over 50 years after her last flight with Pan American Airways, the complete story of the famed, Boeing-built, B-314 flying Clipper ship has been written. Author M.D. Klaas, historian and writer of Pan Am's early flying boat era during the 1930s and 1940s, has put together historical accounts of America's greatest - and the world's largest - commercial airplane of the 1930s and early 1940s. It covers the multiple reasons for the plane's conception, stages of construction, testing, delivery flights, christenings, inaugural operations, established records, World War II special missions'...
Finally, over 50 years after her last flight with Pan American Airways, the complete story of the famed, Boeing-built, B-314 flying Clipper ship has b...
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232,12 zł |
French Aeroplanes Before the Great War
ISBN: 9780764307522 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. French Aeroplanes Before the Great War is a catalog of the aeroplanes of the nearly 700 French builders who worked before the onset of World War I. Most of these aeroplanes flew - some did not - some were never even finished - but all of them reflect the extraordinary vitality and sense of optimism that powered the aeronautical world before the future of the aeroplane began to become clearer in wartime. If the Wrights had not flown in 1903, one of the early French builders would very quickly have won the laurels for the first flight. Some of the machines appear in these pages probably for the...
French Aeroplanes Before the Great War is a catalog of the aeroplanes of the nearly 700 French builders who worked before the onset of World War I. Mo...
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British Aircraft Before the Great War
ISBN: 9780764312076 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Goodall (Brooklands Museum of Motor Racing and Aviation) and Tagg (formerly of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.) present the history of British pre-World War I aircraft, a remarkable period in aviation history. The text and 900-plus b&w photographs reveal details not only about the aircraft manufactured by Sopw
Goodall (Brooklands Museum of Motor Racing and Aviation) and Tagg (formerly of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.) present the history of British pre-World War I ai...
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277,56 zł |
Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying
ISBN: 9780803211445 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hard Airis a book about extraordinary flying flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to places where no one should be flying: into hurricanes, firestorms, and deep, engine-killing cold. As a pilot himself, W. Scott Olsen brings to these tales a sense of wonder and adventure as well as a genuine, firsthand understanding of the dangers and rigors of such flying.In prose that deftly conveys the grit and grace of his subjects, Olsen...
Hard Airis a book about extraordinary flying flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad a boo...
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83,37 zł |
Aircrew Training and Assessment
ISBN: 9780805829778 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Topics in this volume on aircrew training is covered in two sections: models and tools for training of aircrews; and models and tools for assessment of aircrew training.
Topics in this volume on aircrew training is covered in two sections: models and tools for training of aircrews; and models and tools for assessment o...
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782,34 zł |
Parental Control of Television Broadcasting
ISBN: 9780805829785 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes:
*an analysis of the technical devices available to assist in parental control of television broadcasting services, including descriptions of devices, their cost, availability, and the infrastructure needed to introduce them; *a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labeling systems to work in conjunction with or in the place of technical devices, enabling a comparative analysis of rating... This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europ...
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428,98 zł |
Parental Control of Television Broadcasting
ISBN: 9780805839029 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes:
*an analysis of the technical devices available to assist in parental control of television broadcasting services, including descriptions of devices, their cost, availability, and the infrastructure needed to introduce them; *a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labeling systems to work in conjunction with or in the place of technical devices, enabling a comparative analysis of rating... This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europ...
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166,51 zł |
Hydrogen Aircraft Technology
ISBN: 9780849358388 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liquid hydrogen is shown to be the ideal fuel for civil transport aircraft, as well as for various types of military aircraft. This book discusses the potential of hydrogen for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic applications. It presents designs with sample configurations of aircraft for all three speed categories.
Liquid hydrogen is shown to be the ideal fuel for civil transport aircraft, as well as for various types of military aircraft. This book discusses the...
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Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight
ISBN: 9780875653303 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boys' aviation series books from 1910-1950 shaped at least two generations' view of aircraft and American life. From the earliest days of aviation to those of spaceflight, they instilled a vision of flight both romantic and progressive. They described a future in which technology and humanity are complementary and offered flight as a way of bettering all mankind.
In this first comprehensive study of the more than forty boys' aviation series, Erisman reveals the part played by the books and their writers in spurring the American nation's fascination with flying. It is a noteworthy piece of... Boys' aviation series books from 1910-1950 shaped at least two generations' view of aircraft and American life. From the earliest days of aviation to ...
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181,52 zł |
Peace Was Their Profession: Strategic Air Command: A Tribute
ISBN: 9780887406881 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new large format volume is a grand tribute to all of those who served in SAC from its inception in 1947 to its disestablishment in 1992. The great variety of aircraft and missile systems of Strategic Air Command are shown in over 800 color and black and white photographs, making this volume one of the definitive pictorials on the subject.
This new large format volume is a grand tribute to all of those who served in SAC from its inception in 1947 to its disestablishment in 1992. The grea...
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232,12 zł |
Propelled Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles
ISBN: 9780898755459 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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In Love With Flying
ISBN: 9780979410406 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has met along the way, people who impressed him with their passion for flying and who brought a special style to their love affair with flying. This book is for anyone of any age who is thinking about becoming a pilot, or is already one, or who just appreciates the romance of the air. It's more than a collection of anecdotes. Ford is a teacher, and here you will learn, in non-technical language, about the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the...
In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has me...
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102,73 zł |
In Love with Flying
ISBN: 9780979410413 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has met along the way, people who impressed him with their passion for flying and who brought a special style to their love affair with flying. This book is for anyone of any age who is thinking about becoming a pilot, or is already one, or who just appreciates the romance of the air. It's more than a collection of anecdotes. Ford is a teacher, and here you will learn, in non-technical language, about the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the...
In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has me...
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62,48 zł |
B-24 Liberator Bomber Pilot's Flight Manual
ISBN: 9781411613218 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator first saw combat in June of 1942, making a daring raid into Nazi-occupied Romania to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti. Nearly 18,500 Liberators were built during the war years, making it by far the most-produced American combat aircraft. It served in many roles beyond heavy bomber, transport, and anti-submarine patrol, and flew in Africa, Europe, India, the Atlantic, India and the Pacific Theatre. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in 1942, the B-24 Liberator Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know before...
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator first saw combat in June of 1942, making a daring raid into Nazi-occupied Romania to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti. N...
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99,21 zł |
B-17 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual
ISBN: 9781411687257 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Boeing B-17 was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. Used throughout World War II for strategic bombing, the plane earned a reputation for its toughness and versatility. Carrying a crew of ten, and 8,000 pounds of bombs on long range missions, the '17 wreaked havoc on Germany during the critical years 1942-45. The ""Memphis Belle,"" the first B-17 to fly 25 missions over Europe, is perhaps the most famous plane to emerge from the European Theatre. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in December of 1942, the B-17 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual...
The Boeing B-17 was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. Used throughout World War II for strategic bombing, the plane earned a reputati...
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88,69 zł |