Aircraft and aviation

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAF’s tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid-1970s.

"e;A great addition to the highly popular Flight Craft Series.

In this book Stuart McKay tells the story of the achievements of the de Havilland DH.

Shoreham is the oldest airport in the UK, aviator Harold Piffard first flying from there in 1910, although the aerodrome only officially opened on 20 June 1911.

Schritt für Schritt selbst gebaut- Drohne- Quadrocopter- MulticopterDrohnen erweitern: Telemetrie, Flugzeiten optimieren, Kamera für Luftaufnahmen und FPVSie sind begeistert von Multicoptern und ihrer Technik?

The industry known as "e;general aviation"e;--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial airlines--dates from the early days of powered flight.

How two British World War I-era planes came to be found many decades later in India and returned to their former glory.

Learn the latest technologies needed to pass the FAA airframe and powerplant maintenance certification!

Die Eroberung des Himmels begann nicht mit großen Maschinen oder modernen Flugzeugen, sondern mit Träumen, mutigen Experimenten und bahnbrechenden technischen Errungenschaften.

Israeli delta fighters pilots have been credited with almost 300 kills between 1966 and 1974, and dozens of them became aces.

The B-29 Superfortress was the definitive expression in piston-powered offensive air power.

The six Douglas D-558 research aircraft, built as two variants, were produced for a US Navy and NACA collaborative project to investigate flight in the high subsonic and supersonic regimes and to develop means of coping with the dangerous phenomena of compressibility and pitch-up which had caused many accidents to early jets.

The four volumes of the encyclopedia of Cameroon aviation law are intended for students, lawyers, judges, scholars, and readers of all backgrounds with an interest in aviation law and to provide the definitive corpus of relevant national and regional legislation, including global aviation treaties and legislation, to enable all readers, without exception, to develop the background, knowledge, and tools to understand local, regional, and international aviation law in a contextual fashion.

The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the U.

In this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L.

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.

A detailed history of the pioneering Bell X-1, the first manned craft to break the sound barrier.

An illustrated history of the 'Scourge of the Atlantic' and its audacious attacks on Allied shipping.

Flying is an extremely safe way to travel.

In this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L.

An illustrated account of how the USAAF's might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured, Fw 190A-8 Sturmj ger.

Entering service at the end of the Battle of Britain, the pugnacious Bristol Beaufighter was deployed in numbers by Fighter Command just in time for the start of the Luftwaffe's night 'Blitz' on Britain.

The passion for flight has seized Alaska flyersand those who yearn to fly to the Last Frontiersince 1913, when the first biplane arrived in crates via steamship and paddle-wheeler.

Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

The XB-40 and XB-41 were secret, little-known experimental modifications of the B-17F and B-24D, respectively, into heavily-armed bomber gunships sometimes referred to as bomber escorters .

This book "e;Aviation and the Airline Industry: International Perspectives on Policies and Practices"e; presents a selected number of international aviation-specific cases, with an emphasis being placed on Greece, as a number of investment opportunities arise and its economy is recovering from a nine-year turmoil.

Dieses bildstarke Band ist eine vollständig aktualisierte und im Format vergrößerte Neuausgabe des Standardwerks von Achim Figgen und Dietmar Plath zur Geschichte von Airbus und zu den Flugzeugen dieser wahrhaft europäischen Firma.

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, der weltberühmte Autor des Klassikers Der kleine Prinz, war nicht nur ein begnadeter Schriftsteller, sondern auch ein leidenschaftlicher Pilot.

A lavish photographic history that reveals the vital role that the pilots and their aircraft played throughout the course of World War II.

Becoming the fourth largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States when Consolidated merged with Vultee in 1943, Convair quickly built a reputation for designing and building some of the largest and most powerful aircraft in the world.

Among the many twentieth-century explosions in technology that have made the world into a global village, few have had tangible or far-reaching an impact as aviation.

The most produced Japanese bomber of the war, the G4M saw action on every front from the first day of the Pacific conflict through to VJ-Day.

Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American "e;pilots have broken the records which we, here in France, considered as our own for so long.

Regula Eichenberger wollte fliegen.

The F-4 Phantom II is perhaps the most famous post-war fighter.

The Bristol Hercules was a 14-cylinder sleeve valve radial engine designed by Sir Roy Fedden and produced from 1939 by BAC.

Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as One-Zero-Charlie (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C).

Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War.

This work is a comprehensive, heavily illustrated history of the many flying boats and amphibious aircraft designed and built in the United States.

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With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France.

In this definitive study, J.

Among the offensive aerial missions employed in World War II, air-to-ground gun fighting was one of the most valuable.

Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal.

Prestwick Airport is a major international freight hub and is the only airport in Scotland to be connected by rail.