Book Description
A record of man's achievements during the past 180 years in his continuing endeavours to achieve and exploit flight through and beyond the earth, s atmosphere.
Author : Martin Windrow
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Transportation
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A record of man's achievements during the past 180 years in his continuing endeavours to achieve and exploit flight through and beyond the earth, s atmosphere.
Author : Francis Kenneth Mason
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
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ISBN : 9789100020361
Author : Francis K. Mason
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Angie Smibert
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629685259
Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of aerospace engineering. Engaging text explores the Saturn V moon rocket, the International Space Station, and the world's largest passenger jet. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline. Relevant sidebars, stunning photos, and a glossary aid readers' understanding of the topic. A hands-on project and career-planning chart give readers a sense of what it takes to become an engineer. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus essential facts about each featured feat of engineering. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Steven A. Ruffin
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1574886746
Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flight—of just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviation’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities. With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable planes, famous and infamous aviators, aircraft combat, air travel—even space travel—and so much more, Ruffin provides a treasure trove of fun facts and amazing anecdotes celebrating the world’s love affair with flight, plus the hurt that accompanies any deep love. Will Rogers died in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, with aviation legend Wiley Post at the controls. Rogers was writing an article at the time of the crash; eerily, the last word he typed was “death.” Isoroku Yamamoto, who masterminded the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, met his fate in similarly sneaky fashion. U.S. forces intercepted and decoded information on Yamamoto’s travel plans and “Pearl Harbored” his plane, shooting it down into the island jungle of Bougainville. The safest seat in a crash depends on if you crash on takeoff or on landing—so flip a coin! You’ll read about the first and worst of flight, aces and races, and everything from crimes, sex, and controversy to planes so fast they can outrun the sun. With Aviation’s Most Wanted™ you’ll get the history of flight from the early balloon adventures of the eighteenth century until the present, laid out with trivia and tales to amuse and amaze!
Author : Thomas C. Parramore
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780807854709
A remarkable story filled with dreamers, inventors, scoundrels, and pioneering pilots, First to Fly recounts North Carolina's significant role in the early history of aviation. Beginning well before the Wright brothers' first powered flight at Kill
Author : Curt Sutherly
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738701066
"UFO Mysteries is one of the best works on the subject of UFOs since Jacques Vallee's seminal 1965 Anatomy of a Phenomenon. Sutherly has blended skillful writing with the determination of a true investigator to produce an objective and introspective look at one of the greatest enigmas humankind has so far faced." Rick R. Hilberg, Ufologist and Anomalist Cleveland, Ohio Fifty Years of UFO Stories Filled with anecdotes and insider information, UFO Mysteries chronicles fifty years of UFO occurrences in the United States and Europe, from Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting over Mt. Rainier to the wave of triangular UFO sightings over the U.S. and Great Britain during the 1990s. Derived in part from Strange Encounters, the author's earlier book, this updated and expanded version combines a journalistic style with first-person recollection to give the reader a fresh-and remarkable-view of the UFO phenomenon. Included are fifteen rare photographs from a private collection, among them a previously unpublished UFO photograph mailed anonymously to radio station KYW in Cleveland, Ohio.
Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780900424540
Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1473842263
This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author's part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War. It's speciality focus makes for a truly unique compendium of visceral First World War accounts of the incredible, bloody, aerial battles flown by the RFC, German, American, British and Commonwealth pilots shot down over the Western Front, also including stories of their escapes and lives in PoW camps. Whilst the predominant focus is on the airmen who saw action during the Great War, the author also provides startling tales of female heroism. There is a full chapter dedicated to the life and death of Norfolk heroine, Edith Cavell, a Norwich-born nurse who saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers from both sides during the conflict, and perished in the endeavour. Amongst the famous pilots covered are; VCs Billy Bishop and Freddie West; Dice-with-Death Dallas; Mannock The King of the Fighter Aces and Frank Luke the Balloon Buster. This book contains vivid accounts of some of the most heroic actions in the history of aerial warfare, all taking place within the brutal four year stretch of the Great War.
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Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
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