Aircraft and aviation

Aircraft Fatigue: Design, Operational and Economic Aspects contains the proceedings of the "e;"e;Symposium on Aircraft Fatigue-Design, Operational and Economic Aspects,"e;"e; held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 22-24, 1967.

A fascinating insight into how the Allies learned about the capabilities and limitations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force and Japanese Army Air Force through flight testing and evaluation of enemy equipment.

Unlike the relative uniformity of conventional warfare, the peculiarities of small wars prevent a clear definition of rules and roles for military forces to follow.

Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow.

Be prepared to soar!

Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF’s first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991.

The beautiful hills of Northumberland hide the secrets of our almost forgotten recent history.

Topology Optimization in Engineering Structure Design explores the recent advances and applications of topology optimization in engineering structures design, with a particular focus on aircraft and aerospace structural systems.

Flying up the Edgware Road tells the story of how an area of what is now north-west London became a hub of the British aircraft industry in the very early years of the twentieth century.

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, has remained a military powerhouse of that continent until the present day.

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Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically.

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.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft.

This book recounts four tours of Air Force duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and reports firsthand how tactics and the war effort changed each time.

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.

Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation.

This is an extract from the main text)This book on aerotowing gliders was written because there is little reference material published about the subject worlwide.

Among the engineers fueling the rapid rise of the automotive industry at the dawn of the 20th century was James Allison, a fountain pen maker who joined with Carl G.

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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.

Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect of flying around the world.

The C-5 Galaxy is truly an effective military aircraft.

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.

Airlines are competitive and complex businesses and great airlines don't just happen.

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

The land around Turnhouse Farm was converted to a military airfield in 1916 following a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh.

The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement.

In January 1954, at the peak of the so-called “Cold War”, the U.

The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs are funded under four broad budget accounts: operations and maintenance (such as air traffic control and aviation safety functions); facilities and equipment (such as control towers and navigation beacons); grants for airports under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP); and civil aviation research conducted or sponsored by FAA.

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The Rotorcraft Flying Handbook is designed as a technical manual for applicants who are preparing for their private, commercial, or flight instructor pilot certificates with a helicopter or gyroplane class rating.

Within six months of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.

The definitive account of the rise and fall of the iconic Concorde plane from British Airways' former Chief Concorde Pilot'A remarkable story' DAILY EXPRESS'A stonking good read' FLYER_________What's it like to fly faster than a bullet?

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.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel.

In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.

As of 1975, the decades long insurgency in Angola appeared to be short of its conclusion.

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

The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices.

Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.

Provides comprehensive coverage of how supersonic commercial aircraft are designed This must-have guide to conceptual supersonic aircraft design provides a state-of-the art overview of the subject, along with expert analysis and discussion.