Aviation

Ever wondered how many planes 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...

This book will explore a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world. As a result, it will lead to higher performing airports for users, business partners, investors and other...

Since the dawn of aviation at the start of the twentieth century, men and aircraft have been falling out of the sky, sometimes with comical results and sometimes with tragic endings. In Wight Air Wrecks Andrew Gilliam tells the story of every crash on...

Automation in aviation can be a lifesaver, expertly guiding a plane and its passengers through stormy weather to a safe landing. Or it can be a murderer, crashing an aircraft and killing all on board in the mistaken belief that it is doing the right...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345615Author Samme ChittumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Comprehensively revised and updated, the second edition of this widely regarded text reflects the changing environment within international airline training. With particular emphasis on human factors, crew resource management (CRM), crew and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345813Author F. Robert van der LindenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938716587Author Gustav LilienthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Markowski International PublishersPublisher Markowski International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902752733Author A. RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906537340Author Gordon YefimFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Classic PublicationsPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 2700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644250563Author Dale CraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Aviation Supplies & AcademicsPublisher Aviation Supplies & AcademicsWeight(grams)...

This title features over 300 aircraft with 1200 wartime and modern identification photographs. It describes all the truly classic aircraft, such as the Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf109, Heinkel He111, F-14 Tomcat, MiGs, B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit...

What is the role of activists and civil society in defining and defending the collective good in healthcare, especially in cases where that good seems to be heavily shaped by market dynamics? Presenting conceptual and empirical studies from a variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644252154Author Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)/Aviation Supplies & Academics (Asa)Format PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Aviation Supplies &...

This book examines Hispano Suiza's evolution and the technological advances of its engines. Starting with circumstances that favored the creation of an indigenous aviation engine, the story follows engine development for a breadth of applications,...

A revolution in radio control aircraft modelling is here. The traditional route to flying a radio-controlled model was to purchase materials (or a kit of parts) and build one's own model. This approach is rapidly disappearing as well-designed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469993911Author Aditya PalnitkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane. Having no...

Hubert Latham, well-known as Bleriot's rival, was educated at Oxford and a member of early twentieth-century high society. He was a popular figure with the English public and mingled with notorious sporting personalities and French avant-garde artists...

The fourth title in the 'Units' series tells the story of JG 51 "Moelders". The 32 page book with English text contains a chronological overview of the unit's history supplemented with 40 photos; tables of unit commanders and planes used as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692439302Author Susan BrinchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Apex Educational MediaPublisher Apex Educational MediaWeight(grams)...

This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world. Each DPS contains a colour photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in mono) and a...

This is the first of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by...

David Gero's highly successful Aviation Disasters, which reviewed major airliner crashes dating back to 1950, finally has an accompanying volume. Using the same format as its predecessor, Early Aviation Disasters examines major aviation catastrophes that...

Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850 pays tribute to one of the leading historians working on early modern England, Paul Slack, and his work as a historian, and enters into discussion with the rapidly growing body of work on the 'history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992962609Author Joseph J. MerchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Pilots PalsPublisher Pilots Pals

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532737336Author Captain John MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345592Author Samme ChittumFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

This book presents for the first time in English a complete translation of the Expository Commentary to the Daode jing, written by the Daoist monk Cheng Xuanying in the 7th century CE. This commentary is a quintessential text of Tang dynasty Daoist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777855Author Leonid KrylovFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522724865Author Army Air ForcesFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The B-29 Superfortress was for many years a cornerstone of American military aviation. Best known as a bomber, it also served in reconnaissance, as a tanker, and as a rescue plane. It was a crucial tool for American and Allied forces during World War...

On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783330805Author Frank HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint AUK AuthorsPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087217482Author Dennis J CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Performance of the Jet Transport Airplane: Analysis Methods, Flight Operations, and Regulations presents a detailed and comprehensive treatment of performance analysis techniques for jet transport airplanes. Uniquely, the book describes key operational...

Airflow examines and describes the many ways in which modellers and practitioners of a wide range of hobbies and sports (even cricket!) can understand and confront, harness and exploit the physical properties of wind and air. The book's admirable breadth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502782458Author Ronald MarascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398452749Author Adrian RycroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers