Aircraft and aviation

Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky?

In 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors to remote areas to administer medical assistance.

Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky?

Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond.

The Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle presents the high-flying insight of Peter Pigott, in a special collection chronicling the aviators, aircraft, and drama of over a century of Canadian flight.

Expanding the Envelope is the first book to explore the full panorama of flight research history, from the earliest attempts by such nineteenth century practitioners as England's Sir George Cayley, who tested his kites and gliders by subjecting them to experimental flight, to the cutting-edge aeronautical research conducted by the NACA and NASA.

From the eccentric Fairey Battle to the lethal-looking CF-18, from modern airliners that have no defects (and no character) to the classic North Star (which had both), here is the ultimate line-up of the aircraft that have served Canadians in the last century.

Women run wind tunnel experiments, direct air traffic, and fabricate airplanes.

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began.

Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond.

A detailed exploration of China's J-20 stealth fighter, its development, impact, and role in reshaping global power dynamics.

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

Das Flugboot, das so viel zur Geschichte der Luftfahrt beigetragen hatte, war zu jener Zeit von der hier berichtet wird, eine fast schon aussterbende "Spezies".

The Bay of Pigs, on the south coast of Cuba, was the scene in 1961 of an unsuccessful attempt by an armed force of exiled Cubans which had been organized, supplied and trained by the United States government.