Aircraft and aviation Books
Xlibris Corporation Takeoff Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA Career Adventures in General Aviation and the FAA Memoirs of a Great Aviation Career
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£17.59
Xlibris High Flight
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DK Flight
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New Generation Publishing Airship on a Shoestring the Story of R 100
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£14.45
AuthorHouse They Broke the Mold
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AuthorHouse Border Pilot
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Boeing 777
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Johns Hopkins University Press Beyond the Black Box
Book SynopsisShows how crash investigators, scientists, and engineers use physics and engineering to determine the probable cause of airplane accidents and how resulting safety recommendations are incorporated to make flying safer. Beginning with the 1931 Fokker F-10A crash, this work examines crash investigations through the lens of physical science.Trade ReviewThe author does a first-rate job... The easy-to-read and engaging manner of the writing makes this an interesting historical as well as scientific text. -- Charles K. Jervis National Science Teachers Association 2008 Bibel takes the reader, chattily and with skill, through his analysis of a series of fatal accidents. -- Paul Marks New Scientist 2007 Offering insights into how aviation accident investigations are conducted, Bibel addresses the causes of such accidents, from in-flight breakup to metal fatigue and combustion, and the lessons learned. Enriched with many drawings, graphs, and equations... Highly recommended. Library Journal 2007 A fascinating book. -- Steven D. Levitt New York Times 2008 The author succeeds in both science and storytelling. Choice 2008 The easy-to-read and engaging manner of the writing makes this an interesting historical as well as scientific text. -- Charles K. Jervis NSTA Recommends 2008 Beyond the Black Box provides a behind-the-scenes look at plane crash investigations. Air Safety Week 2008 Bibel takes responsibility for his readers' understanding... using similes based on everyday events and objects. -- Don Fry Virginia Quarterly Review 2008 Terrific book. Discover 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. The Crash Investigation Process2. How Planes (Often) Crash3. In-Flight Breakup4. Pressure, Explosive Decompression, and Burst Balloons5. Jet Propulsion, Burst Engines, and Reliability6. Metal Fatigue: Bending 777s and Paper Clips7. Combustion: Fire and Explosion8. Crash Testing9. Human Tolerances to G Loads and Crash ForcesNotesReferencesIndex
£999.99
MJ - Ohio University Press The Wright Company
Book SynopsisA fascinating window into Wilbur and Orville Wright‘s legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.Trade Review“[Roach] closes a major gap in our understanding of the brothers, drawing on an untapped cache of corporate records and the scattered papers of business associates to produce a history of the Wright Company set in the larger context of American business, labor, urban, and industrial history. His book is a fresh, honest, and well-researched view of Wilbur and Orville’s experience as the president and vice president of the Wright Company, respectively, detailing the rise and fall of a firm that in different hands might have dominated an infant industry.” * Business History Review *“The Wrights were excellent self-taught engineers who achieved success through a process more akin to tinkering than systematic research and development. They were poor businessmen, however, as this fine discussion of their stint as ‘captains of industry’ illustrates.” * American Historical Review *“Roach has produced what will become the standard work on the subject, and The Wright Company deepens our understanding of early American aviation history in several valuable ways. …General readers interested in these aspects of twentieth-century transport and aviation history will benefit from reading Roach’s work, as will specialists.” * Journal of Transport History *“The book explores the one area of the career of the Wright brothers that remains least well known. It casts new light on the business career of the Wright brothers, and on the history of the Wright Company and the men who led it.… Taken as a whole, the book offers a concise and readable history of an important topic that has received all too little attention.”“As a specialist in the history of flight for over the past 30 years, I thought I had encountered everything there was to know about the Wright Brothers and their essential role in the birth and development of the airplane and the American aircraft industry. I was wrong. Edward J. Roach’s new book fills in many gaps in the story where none of us knew there even were gaps. This new study is a major contribution to aviation historiography.”“A well-researched and fascinating look into an often forgotten chapter in aviation history…. This detailed biographical, corporate, and industrial history is nicely illustrated with historical photos and advertisements.” * Library Journal *“Roach’s study digs deeper than technological and business history. By casting his narrative in an urban historical context and painting the sociocultural elements that affected the business, the author contributes to a clearer understanding of how seemingly unrelated elements affected the development of the Wright aircraft business.” * The Historian *“Roach’s chronicle of the birth, growth, and subsequent marginalization of the Wright Company adds a new and critical piece to the story of America's most famous sibling inventors. Recommended.” * Choice *“Edward Roach’s work The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry examines one of the least studied time periods in the brothers’ careers. Wilbur and Orville may have been brilliant intuitive engineers, but they were not brilliant intuitive entrepreneurs. Their inexperience with the world of big business, plus their energy-draining defense of their patent, left them behind as others pioneered the aircraft industry. This book is a valuable addition to the literature on the Wright brothers and the early history of the aircraft industry in the United States.”“The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry provides an in-depth look at the character and disposition of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the impact their lack of business acumen had on their company and the industry they were a part of. The Wright Company story leads to a better understanding of the larger emerging aviation industry of the early twentieth century.”Table of Contents* List of Illustrations * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * One: "We Will Devote...Our Time to Experimental Work" Creating the Wright Company * Two: Bringing an Aeroplane Factory to Dayton * Three: "A Substantial, Commodious, Thoroughly Modern Factory" The Wright Company Enters the Market * Four: "Our Machines Are Sold on Their Merits" Patents, Profits, and Controversy * Five: World Records for Wright Aviators The Exhibition Department * Six: To Change or Not to Change Creating New Airplanes and New Pilots * Seven: Turning Buyer Attention the Company Way Advertising * Eight: Managing the Wrights' Company * Nine: "It Is Something I Have Wanted to Do for Many Months" Exit Orville * EpilogueThe Wright Company's Legacy * Notes * Bibliography * Index
£17.09
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Ice Crash
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£15.99
Smithsonian Books Kelly More Than My Share of it All
Book SynopsisClarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
£17.06
University Press of the Pacific My Airships
£18.00
Openhatch Books Air Crashes and Miracle Landings 85 CASES How and Why
£14.25
Dolphin Moon Publishing A Pilots View of Flying Machines 19001909
£9.64
Elevon Books Sky Full of Dreams
£15.98
Bajali Publishing Ultimate Pilots Operating Handbook Robinson R44
£15.99
Jet Star Publishing Flight for Safety
£18.21
Old Machine Press Duesenberg Aircraft Engines A Technical Description
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£25.00
Astral Horizon Press The Story Of The MD11
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Astral Horizon Press Tiger 747
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Crammondmedia THE CRASH OF MH370 Recently Retired A380 Airline Captain Explores the Mystery of the Doomed Airliner
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Retromechanix Productions Northrop N63 Convoy Fighter The Naval VTOL Turboprop Tailsitter Project of 1950
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Airline Weekly Corp. Glory Lost and Found How Delta Climbed from Despair to Dominance in the Post911 Era
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LEGARE STREET PR An Aviators Wife
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LEGARE STREET PR An Aviators Wife
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Legare Street Press Grundlagen Der Flugtechnik
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Legare Street Press Grundlagen Der Flugtechnik
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LEGARE STREET PR Opportunities in Aviation
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LEGARE STREET PR DOrcys Airship Manual
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LEGARE STREET PR Voyages Aeriens
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LEGARE STREET PR The The Dominion Of The Air The Story Of Aerial Navigation
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LEGARE STREET PR Les Ballons Dirigeables
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LEGARE STREET PR Air Power Naval Military Commercial
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LEGARE STREET PR Calculs Aérodynamiques Des Avions
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LEGARE STREET PR Ballons Dirigeables
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Legare Street Press Linvention De Laerostation a Avignon En 1782
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Legare Street Press Pas a Pas Saut a Saut Vol a Vol
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Legare Street Press Flying Machines
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Legare Street Press Aëronautics
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Legare Street Press Aircraft
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Legare Street Press The The Aeroplane Handbook
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Legare Street Press La Navigation Aerienne
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Legare Street Press The The Flight Across the Atlantic
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Legare Street Press Principles and Design of Aëroplanes
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Legare Street Press Att Flyga Om Flymaskiner Och Flygkonst
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