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Drone Law and Policy describes the drone industry and its evolution, describing the benefits and risks of its exponential growth. It outlines the current and proposed regulatory framework in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe,...

Who has not been astonished at an airport when he sees a particularly eye-catching airplane with an extremely elaborate paint job? More and more often, airlines make use of special painting whether to celebrate an anniversary, advertise a certain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671038496Author Stephen CoontsFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted matters that arise in the process of financing commercial aircraft. It reviews the different topics on a high-level basis, and then explains the terminology used for each particular area of...

This volume focuses on the influence of America's Second World War aviation development and experience, subsequent aviation technological advances, and world events, in shaping American choices in military aircraft and associated weapons' development...

The authors believe that a systematic organizational approach to aviation safety must replace the piecemeal approaches largely favoured in the past, but this change needs to be preceded by information to explain why a new approach is necessary. Accident...

This book tells the full story of the BAe 146, a short-haul airliner produced between 1983 and 2002. It has been operated by several airlines around the world and an adapted version with a countermeasures suite is also part of Britain's Royal Squadron...

Covers the design and multiple uses of the Heinkel He 115.Book InformationISBN 9780887406676Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789872484347Author DieusaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Prensa NuevaPublisher Prensa Nueva

What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the evolution of air power theory and practice by examining the experience of six of the world's largest air...

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of complex interactions rather than simple threads of causes and effects. Yet progress in accident...

The revolutionary Harrier took to the skies in December 1967, going on to become the star of the Royal Navy and Air Force during the Falkland Islands War in 1982. Its US derivative, the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, proved equally successful with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916938Author Brig Gen Gerald E. McIlmoyle (Ret.)Format PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

International aviation is a massive and complex industry that is crucial to our global economy and way of life. Designed for the next generation of aviation professionals, Fundamentals of International Aviation, second edition, flips the traditional...

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...

The China Clipper was the first of three Martin M-130 four engine flying boats and shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935; the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156037334Author Saint-ExuperyFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

All the information you need to operate safely in US airspace, fully updated. If you're an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today's environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the...

The iconic Hawker-Siddeley Harrier was designed to fight the Cold War from the fields of West Germany but won its battle spurs in the Falklands, Belize and Afghanistan. It was controversially scrapped by the British Government fifty years after entering...

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...

A valentine for one of the ugliest, albeit most lethally effective, warplanes ever built--as well as for the men who flew them during the Desert Storm campaign. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred A-10 pilots who served in the Persian Gulf during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384385Author Lt Col Earl J. McGill USAF (Ret.)Format PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Finally, over 50 years after her last flight with Pan American Airways, the complete story of the famed, Boeing-built, B-314 flying Clipper ship has been written. Author M.D. Klaas, historian and writer of Pan Am's early flying boat era during the 1930s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935700043Author Hugh AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384941Author Lt Col Earl J. McGill USAF (Ret.)Format PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A forceful study of an elite group of men chosen to form the U. S. Marines' only medium bomber group during WWII. Verterans recall their service flying combat missions against enemy garrisons on Bougainville and New Ireland, and later in the dramatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732599222Author Dan StratmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Flying D Publishing LLCPublisher Flying D Publishing LLCWeight(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...

European Air Power examines the current state of eight separate European air forces and their prospective air power capabilities in a manner that will appeal to a wide audience of air force enthusiasts. Included are perspectives from independent air...

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 9780071738026Author Helmut RedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublisher McGraw-Hill CompaniesWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Drawn from the files of English, American, New Zealand, Australian and Canadian sources, as well as from veterans, this is the story of Lockheed's Lucky Star-the marvelous Ventura! Fashioned from the Lockheed Model 18 airliner, the Ventura went on to...

This book documents the development and delivery of the Silverplate B-29 bomber, the remarkable airplane with capabilities that surpassed those of known enemy fighters of the time and was employed to release the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945...

Perhaps no other aircraft in aviation history has been such a well-kept secret as the United States' Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. This cutting-edge aircraft took the art of aerial spying to an unprecedented level and did it all from highly clandestine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648235606Author Brett MandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Atlantis MediaPublisher Atlantis MediaWeight(grams) 195g

On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Less than an hour after take-off, somewhere over the South China Sea the plane simply vanished. One eyewitness saw a burning object crash...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639022Author David BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm) 295mm *...

* Autobiography of a fighter and test pilot during World War II and Vietnam *Among first marines to fly a helicopter *First Marine to be named to the Navy Carrier Aviation Test Pilots Hall of Honor First published in 1994, this stirring...

Noted Luftwaffe historians Jochen Prien and Peter Rodeike present in this brand new book the Messerschmitt BF 109F, G and K models. Over 500 photos - most never published and some in rare color - superb line schemes, and detailed text show the late model...

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where over one...