Aircraft and aviation

A globally customizable infrastructure plan can be adapted for other countries in minimal expenses, time, and changes.

When Peter took charge of the flight deck of the 777 and took off from Beijing airport, there was nothing to suggest that this trip would be anything other than a routine flight of the sort he had made so many times before.

The New Science of the UFO now completes author and researcher Kenneth W.

This fascinating story explains how aviation crashes are investigated, and what goes on behind the scenes to improve safety.

In the timeline relevant to Billie H.

It is 1936, and BEN FINDLAY, a 16-year-old Michigan farm boy, wanders to a local airport to escape his abusive father.

Vince Flury spent 50 years in the field of Aviation.

In the late nineteenth century, circus aerialists collaborated with show balloonists to perform death-defying stunts, initially by suspending themselves from trapeze bars beneath a balloon, later by jumping from the balloons using fabric parachutes.

At the height of the Watergate scandal, Delta Flight 723 crashed into a fog-shrouded seawall at the end of Runway 4R at Logan Airport in Boston.

Only in America could Walter A.

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.

Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations.

Raised on a bankrupt farm along the Mississippi River, Allen E.

Among the world's military air arms, United States Marine Corps Aviation occupies a unique tactical niche.

In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket boosters.

Poland was in ruins after World War I.

Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century.

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).

Trained as a photo reconnaissance unit, Marine Observation Squadron 251 ended up serving as a fighter squadron for the duration of World War II, shooting down 32 Japanese aircraft.

World War I fighter pilot William C.

This book evaluates the development of the Rhodesian Air Force during the Second Chimurenga or Bush War (1966-1980).

Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death.

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Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "e;Chubbie"e; Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history.

Nicky Venditti, a U.

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

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commercial aviation in the 1960s was in a perilous state.

Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized.

Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

Eugene Burton Ely was buried the day after his 25th birthday, less than a half-mile from where he was born.

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

Exploring the nature of space programs and how nations can maximize advantages gained from space operations, this book draws from military and economic theory to describe an original model of the development and employment of a nation's ability to operate in space.

In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E.

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.

During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England.

Jet airliner operations in the United States began in 1958, bringing, it was thought, a new era of fast, high, safe, smooth, sophisticated travel.

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history.

Superbly written, this is an account by a participant in the airlift that supplied the blockaded capital of the Khmer Republic and several provincial capitals with food and other necessities of life during the last year of the United States' direct involvement in the Indochina War.

Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill.

December 7, 1941, opened up a new theater of war in the Pacific and a new threat for what was then the Netherlands East Indies.

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr.

Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation.

"e;This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the British the Marauder.

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, "e;Louis Rehr "e;was the best there was"e; flying it.