Author : Phil Croucher
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781502564061
This book reflects the author's extensive experience, both on type and training others to fly it. It contains many operating tips and facts that you don't normally find out until you have flown the machine for several hundred hours.
Author : Phil Croucher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1926833198
A book about the AS 350 and the AS 355, and their operating characteristics.
Author : John Toal
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781481142571
This book is not a substitution for the helicopter flight manual and should not be treated as such. It is intended to give further information relating to the different sections of the flight manual and to explain the helicopter systems more clearly. I have added in some extra information where I felt it would be beneficial but overall I have tried to keep the book as simple as possible while still covering all the sections in the flight manual. This book will not teach you how to fly the aircraft. However it will give you the necessary technical information to conduct your flight safely. It is written with the new Jet Ranger pilot in mind. It is assumed that you already hold your private pilot's licence and have limited or no previous Jet Ranger experience. You should be familiar with flying techniques, as this book will not teach you how to fly.
Author : Simon D. Beck
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476622930
Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora! or how French Gazelle helicopters were modified for the title role in Blue Thunder? This first of its kind reference book lists aircraft featured in 350 films and television shows, providing brief individual histories, film locations, serial numbers and registrations. Aircraft are also cross-referenced by manufacturer. Appendices provide brief bios on pilots and technicians, information on aircraft collections owned by Tallmantz Aviation and Blue Max Aviation and film credits for U.S. aircraft carriers.
Author : Shawn Coyle
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Helicopters
ISBN : 9780813821696
Written from a pilot's perspective, this unique book provides a comprehensive overview of helicopter flying. It provides insight into all aspects of the modern helicopter, from turbine engines to automatic flight control systems, including descriptions of phenomena not explained elsewhere. Based on the author's experience of flying more than 43 types of helicopters, the book is easily understood and describes not only the way helicopters fly but also some of the peculiar things they do, and why.
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1429961325
Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author : Jennifer Bell
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553498452
Anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their lives can’t miss this fantasy series opener. Dive into a secret underground city below London where ordinary objects are capable of extraordinary magic! "Part Tim Burton, part J.K. Rowling! A terrific debut." —Soman Chainani, New York Times Bestselling Author of the School for Good and Evil series Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems… When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to the hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Soon their house is ransacked by unknown intruders, and a very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, a secret underground city called Lundinor where ordinary objects have amazing powers. There are belts that enable the wearer to fly, yo-yos that turn into weapons, buttons with healing properties, and other enchanted objects capable of very unusual feats. But the forces of evil are closing in fast, and when Ivy and Seb learn that their family is connected to one of the greatest uncommon treasures of all time, they must race to unearth the treasure and get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it’s too late. Debut novelist Jennifer Bell delivers a world of wonder and whimsy in the start of a richly uncommon series. "An auspicious trilogy opener." -Kirkus Reviews
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807045020
If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How do we remain hopeful? Howard Zinn—activist, historian, and author of A People’s History of the United States—was a participant in and chronicler of some of the landmark struggles for racial and economic justice in US history. In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. A former bombardier in World War II, he later became an outspoken antiwar activist, spirited protestor, and champion of civil disobedience. Throughout his life, Zinn was unwavering in his belief that “small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” With a foreword from activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, this revised edition will inspire a new generation of readers to believe that change is possible.
Author : Andrew Vachss
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2001-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375719032
Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.
Author : Tom Angleberger
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684520657
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving Venus flytrap. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, this early-chapter-book series is a must for beginning readers. Inspector Flytrap in the Da Vinci Cold introduces kids to the humorous and wacky world of Inspector Flytrap’s Detective Agency, home to the world-renowned solver of BIG DEAL mysteries. The plant detective works tirelessly with his assistant Nina the Goat on his community’s unsolved cases. There’s no case too big, but there are definitely cases too small for this endearingly self-important plant detective. Celebrating the disabled yet enabled, the character of Inspector Flytrap is wheeled everywhere (on a skateboard, of course) by his goat sidekick as this mystery-solving duo works on cases such as “The Big Deal Mystery of the Stinky Cookies” and “The Big Deal Mystery of the Missing Rose.” On his first caper, Inspector Flytrap heads to the Art Museum’s Secret Lab to discover what important message lies in a mysterious glob on a recently discovered Da Vinci flower painting. The ingenious solution: Da Vinci was allergic to flowers, and the glob is, er, evidence of that ancient sneeze. Combining wacky humor and a silly cast of characters with adventure, friendship, and mystery, the powerhouse team of Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell have created a uniquely engaging series that is perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Ricky Ricotta, Captain Underpants, and the Galaxy Zack series. Also included in these books are some graphic novel–style pages that will attract reluctant readers.
