Handling the Big Jets
Author : David P. Davies
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Jet planes
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Author : David P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Jet planes
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Author : Great Britain. Air Registration Board
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : D.P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1847979211
Flying the Big Jets presents the facts that people want to know about the world of the big jets. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? How do the radios work? What aircraft maintenance is required? How often are the tyres changed? What is the life style of a pilot? The answers to these and a thousand other questions are given in sufficient detail to satisfy the most inquisitive of readers. Chapter by chapter the reader is taken gently from the basics of the big jets to the sophistication of the 'glass cockpit' in preparation for the pilot's seat on a Boeing 777 flight from London to Boston. Flying the Big Jets is a comprehensive book that reveals as never before the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot. "Written by a pilot with over 15,000 flying hours on heavy jets during a 30-year career in commercial aviation, this title is a comprehensive text book taking the reader into the 'glass cockpit' of a Boeing 777. It is also a guide to the principles of flight, the art of navigation and meteorology, and an appreciation of the role played by Air Traffic Control in modern airline operations. An absorbing read for that next long-haul flight." WINGSPAN
Author : Richard de Crespigny
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1743347898
QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
Author : David P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Airplanes
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Author : D. P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1971
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : David P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Jet transports
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Author : David P. Davies
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Jet transports
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