Aircraft and aviation Books
Barcharts, Inc Aviation Terminology
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Amberley Publishing London City Airport Through Time
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which London City Airport has changed and developed over the years
£17.91
Amberley Publishing The Harrier
Book SynopsisAuthor David Oliver describes the development and production of the Harrier from the original Kestrel project.
£15.99
Amberley Publishing Essex A Hidden Aviation History
Book SynopsisThe fascinating aviation history of Essex, with a number of rare and previously unpublished photographs.
£15.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Along Manhasset Bay Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Beaumonts Civil Air Patrol in World War II
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Central Oregon Aviation
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Ellsworth Air Force Base Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Idaho Aviation
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing Pan American World Airways Images of Modern
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Alabama Aviation
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Alabama Aviation
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£7.59
Arcadia Publishing South Plains Army Airfield Images of Aviation
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Braniff Airways Flying Colors Images of Modern
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£20.69
Arcadia Publishing Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty
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£18.69
History Press Wyomings Friendly Skies Training Americas First
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£18.69
History Press The Lake Michigan Triangle
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£20.39
History Press Terror Over Elizabeth New Jersey
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£18.69
History Press Italo Balbos Flight to the 1933 Chicago Worlds
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£21.24
Capstone Classroom Aviones Medios de Transporte
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£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Lockheed Constellation: A History
Book SynopsisClarence 'Kelly' Johnson's design for the Lockheed Constellation, known affectionately as the 'Connie', produced one of the world's most iconic airliners. Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurised airliner, since 1937\. In 1939, Trans World Airlines, at the instigation of major stockholder Howard Hughes, requested a 40-passenger transcontinental aircraft with a range of 3,500 miles, well beyond the capabilities of the Excalibur design. TWA's requirements led to the L-049 Constellation, designed by Lockheed engineers including Kelly Johnson and Hall Hibbard. Between 1943 and 1958, Lockheed built 856 Constellations in numerous models at its Burbank, California, factory - all with the same distinctive and immediately recognisable triple-tail design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. The Constellation was used as a civil airliner and as a military and civilian air transport, seeing service in the Berlin and the Biafran airlifts. Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the Second World War, TWA's trans-Atlantic service began on 6 February 1946 with a New York-Paris flight in a Constellation. Then, on 17 June 1947, Pan Am opened the first-ever scheduled round-the-world service with their L-749 Clipper America. In this revealing insight into the Lockheed Constellation, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons examines its design, development and service, both military and civil. In doing so, he reveals the story of a design which, as the first pressurised airliner in widespread use, helped to usher in affordable and comfortable air travel around the world.
£35.26
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Race through the Skies: The Week the World
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£22.49
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Aircraft Log: ASA-SA-2
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£12.90
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Engine Log: ASA-SE-2
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£14.11
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Engine Log: ASA-SE-1
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£7.76
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Propeller Log: ASA-SP-L
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£8.29
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc International Aircraft Directory: The World's
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£18.26
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Caravan: Cessna's Swiss Army Knife with Wings!:
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£18.41
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Aircraft Flight Log: ASA-SP-FLT-2
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£14.36
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Pilot Master Log: ASA-SP-6
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£25.71
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Helicopter Maneuvers Manual: A step-by-step
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£20.67
Smithsonian Books Amelia Earhart: A Biography
Book SynopsisShe died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
£14.99
Smithsonian Books The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash
Book SynopsisThe immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) while its investigators tried to determine if the world's most widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 737, was really safe. Their findings have had wide-ranging effects on the airline industry, pilots, and even passangers. Adair takes readers behind the scenes to show who makes decisions about airline safety—and why.
£14.24
Smithsonian Books The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the
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£22.79
Smithsonian Books The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia
Book SynopsisWho was the first person to dine in space? How long was the Wright brothers's first successful flight? What famous aircraft was named after a grape-flavored soft drink? What toy based on an animated film accompanied astronauts on a shuttle mission in 2000? These questions and many more are answered in The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia. In addition to the canon of space and aviation information, the pages are illustrated with more than 125 objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's collections.
£10.99
Smithsonian Books The Flight 981 Disaster: Tragedy, Treachery, and
Book SynopsisOn June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after its takeoff from Detroit. The explosion ripped a gaping hole in the bottom of the aircraft and jammed the hydraulic controls. Miraculously, despite the damage and ensuing chaos, the pilots were able to land the plane safely. Less than two years later, on March 3, 1974, a sudden, forceful blowout tore through Turk Hava Yollari (THY) Flight 981 from Paris to London. THY Flight 981 was not as lucky as Flight 96; it crashed in a forest in France, and none of the 346 people onboard survived. What caused the mysterious explosions? How were they linked? Could they have been prevented? The Flight 981 Disaster addresses these questions and many more, offering a fascinating insiders' look at two dramatic aviation disasters.
£14.39
Smithsonian Books Best of the National Air and Space Museum
Book SynopsisExperience the thrill of flying some of the world's most important airplanes and spacecraft. Best of the National Air and Space Museum provides unprecedented access to the most popular museum in the world. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum hosts an average of seven million visits every year. The Udvar-Hazy Center—three football fields long and ten stories high—receives more than one million visits annually. Best of the National Air and Space Museum features the best of both museums, from the Challenger space shuttle and the Wright flyer to the Spirit of St. Louis and the stealth bomber. Robert Van der Linden, curator of aeronautics, has selected the most important, popular, and just plain impressive aircraft and spacecraft from the collections of both museums to be showcased in this beautiful book. Each page spread includes intriguing facts of the item's design, use, mission, specifications, and dimensions. A must-have for space and aviation buffs.
£999.99
Smithsonian Books Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped
Book SynopsisComprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviatorAnthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering with mechanics. Despite not receiving a traditional education, he stumbled his way into aviation as a young stunt pilot in Germany in 1910. He survived a series of spectacular airplane crashes and rose to fame within a few years. A combination of industrial espionage, luck, and deception then propelled him to become Germany's leading aircraft manufacturer during World War I, making him a multimillionaire by his midtwenties.When the German Revolution swept the country in 1918 and 1919, Fokker made a spectacular escape to the United States. He set up business in New York and New Jersey in 1921, and shortly thereafter became the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. The U.S. Army and Navy acquired his machines, and his factories equipped legendary carriers such as Pan American and TWA at the dawn of commercial air transport.Yet despite his astounding success, his empire collapsed in the late 1920s after a series of ill-conceived business decisions and deeply upsetting personal dramas. In 1927, aviator Richard Byrd solicited a Fokker three-engine plane to be the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. The plane was damaged on a test flight and Charles Lindbergh beat him to it. Lindbergh's solo adventure in the Spirit of St. Louis earned him--and cost Fokker--a lasting place in the history books. Using previously undiscovered records and primary sources, Marc Dierikx traces Fokker's extraordinary life and celebrates his spectacular achievements.
£23.40
History Press The Early Days of Aviation in Grand Rapids
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£18.69
Casemate Publishers The Dawn of the Drone: From the Back Room Boys of
Book SynopsisIn the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form of television demonstrated before the war by Prof. A. M. Low. The remote control systems for these aircraft and boats were invented at RFC Secret Experimental Works commanded by Prof. Low, which was part of the organization of ‘back-room boys’ in the Munitions Inventions Department. These audacious projects of Low and his contemporaries led to the hundreds of remotely controlled Queen Bee aerial targets in the 1930s and hence to all the machines that we now call ‘drones'.Starting well before WWI and, for the lucky ones, extending well beyond it, the lives of Archibald Low and many of his contemporaries were extraordinary as were the times they lived through. They witnessed many dawns, the coming of the oil and plastics age and of domestic electricity. They experienced vast social improvements and the pasturing of the working horse in favor of motor transport. They were around for the first epic aircraft flights and with the aid of the very technologies that had enabled the development of drones, they saw air travel transformed from the precarious to the routine. It is astonishing that the origins of the first drones are not common knowledge in Britain and that the achievement of these maverick inventors is not commemorated.
£24.02
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Airport Management
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£49.99
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Flight Notes: 3-Pack Notebooks with Quick
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£11.69
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard Pilot Logbook ? Pink: The Standard
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£999.99
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Aerodynamics for Aviators
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£45.33
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed
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£15.15
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Flight Instructor's Survival Guide: true,
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£18.32
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc The Standard UAS Operator Logbook: The Standard
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£13.94
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc An Aviators Field Guide to Buying an Airplane
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£13.29
