The Complete Book of Flight
Author | : Andreas Fecker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9781445404424 |
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Author | : Andreas Fecker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9781445404424 |
Author | : Rowland White |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 145214348X |
All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets—all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams—Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish, entertain, and fire the imaginations of everyone with their head in the clouds.
Author | : Richard H. Graham |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627888098 |
The ultimate guide to the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all fifty models in the SR-71 program. At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound—so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had to wear full-pressure flight suits similar to what was used aboard the space shuttle. Developed by the renowned Lockheed Skunk Works, the SR-71 was an awesome aircraft in every respect. It was withdrawn from use in 1998, when it was superseded by satellite technology. Twelve of the thirty-two aircraft were destroyed in accidents, but none were ever lost to enemy action. Throughout its thirty-four-year career, the SR-71 was the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft. It set world records for altitude and speed: an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 miles per hour. The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird covers every aspect of the SR-71’s development, manufacture, modification, and active service from the insider’s perspective of one of its pilots and is lavishly illustrated with more than 400 photos. Former pilot and author Richard Graham also examines each of the fifty planes that came out the SR-71 program (fifteen A-12s; three YF-12s; and thirty-two SR-71s) and tells each plane’s history, its unique specifications, and where each currently resides.
Author | : John Hylan Heminway |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1524732974 |
"The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--
Author | : James Fallows |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-11-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786741759 |
The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel: NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years: in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the new environment of air travel.
Author | : Judith E. Rinard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9781554072927 |
A guide to the world of flight documents the milestones in aviation history that changed the world, from the development of ballooning to the mission to Mars.
Author | : Mark Phelps |
Publisher | : WeldonOwn+ORM |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1681886367 |
Facts, photos, stories, and specs of one hundred remarkable flying machines, from the Sopwith Camel to the 747 to the supersonic F-22 Raptor. Of all humanity’s dazzling innovations, perhaps none captures our imaginations or fuels our inventive spirits as much as flight. In our quest to soar higher, faster, and farther, we’ve dreamed up airborne wonders that are a sight to behold—like the supersonic F-22 Raptor, stealthily soaring above the clouds, or the Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Biplane, the beautiful starter model that helped a generation earn their wings, or the deluxe Concorde—the first passenger jet to cruise at the speed of sound. These iconic aircraft—and ninety-seven more stunning feats of aeronautical engineering—make up the world’s most groundbreaking contributions to flight, all curated and collected here by the experts at Flying magazine. In Flight: 100 Greatest Aircraft, there’s something for every aviation aficionado—from brazen stunt planes to far-from-pedestrian commercial jets, from military marvels to spacecraft that reached dazzling new heights. With its spectacular full-color photographs, fascinating and informative text, and a detailed specifications section, Flight is the essential book for pilots and plane-lovers everywhere.
Author | : John Batchelor |
Publisher | : Rebo International Bv |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9789036616003 |
Presents a history of flight, aeronautics, and types of airplanes, from 1848 until the present day.
Author | : Ashley Schumacher |
Publisher | : Wednesday Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250779790 |
Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas, calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be. When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with something too. When her strict parents find out she’s been secretly seeing him and keep them apart, Anna and Weston learn what it truly means to fight for something they love. With the marching contest nearing and the two falling hard for one another, the unthinkable happens, and Anna is left grappling for a way forward without Weston. Ashley Schumacher’s Full Flight is about how first love shapes us—even after it’s gone.
Author | : Jon Richards |
Publisher | : Copper Beach Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9780761307266 |
Cross-section illustrations reveal the complex technology of 747s, helicopters, supersonic jets, and other vehicles of flight.