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  • Vought F4U-4 Corsair Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Navy
    One of the most storied aircraft of WWII, the Vought F4U-4 Corsair was the first single engine production aircraft capable of 400 mph in level flight. With its characteristic gull wing and giant 18-cylinder Double Wasp engine, it proved a superb fighter in the Pacific Theater and achieved victory ratio approaching 11 to 1. The exploits of the famed Black Sheep Squadron of Corsa...
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    16,37 €

  • P-51 Mustang Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Army Air Force
    Used primarily as a long-range bomber escort in raids over Germany, the North American P-51 Mustang earned a reputation for toughness and agility in dogfights. Carrying a two-stage supercharged V-12 Merlin engine and armed with six .50 caliber machine guns, the P-51 helped the Allies gain air superiority in the skies over Europe. P-51s were flown by the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a...
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    16,69 €

  • P-51 Mustang Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Army Air Force
    Used primarily as a long-range bomber escort in raids over Germany, the North American P-51 Mustang earned a reputation for toughness and agility in dogfights. Carrying a two-stage supercharged V-12 Merlin engine and armed with six .50 caliber machine guns, the P-51 helped the Allies gain air superiority in the skies over Europe. P-51s were flown by the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a...
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    24,84 €

  • B-17 Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
    U.S. Army Air Force
    The Boeing B-17 was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. Used throughout World War II for strategic bombing, the plane earned a reputation for its toughness and versatility. Carrying a crew of ten, and 8,000 pounds of bombs on long range missions, the '17 wreaked havoc on Germany during the critical years 1942-45. The 'Memphis Belle', the first B-17 to fly 25 miss...
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    15,51 €

  • Hughes XF-11 Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    U.S. Army Air Force / U.SArmy Air Force
    The XF-11 was originally conceived as a dedicated reconnaissance aircraft, capable of high-speed penetration of enemy defenses. The plane’s design benefitted from research work by its builder, the brilliant and sometimes mercurial Howard Hughes. Inspired by an experimental aircraft he had created known as the DX-2, Hughes’ XF-11 was a twin-engine, twin-boom, tricycle gear monop...
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    14,14 €

  • Hughes HK-1 (H-4) Flying Boat Manual
    Hughes Tool Company / War Department
    The legendary Hercules flying boat was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended to defeat the German U-boat threat, the plane was intended to be a super transport that could ferry 750 troops from the USA to Europe, and serve as an aerial ambulance on the return flight. Owing to wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum, the prototype Hercules was built usin...
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    16,88 €

  • Highest Mountain
    Wl Crum
    How did we ever grow up, children were born in their mothers bedroom. We drank raw milk, with thick cream on the top. There was lead paint on EVERYTHING, asbestos insulation on every school building, no seat belts, no bicycle helmets, no child labor laws, no clean air laws, no safety caps on pill bottles or ant poison. Actually, we were free people, free to think and learn for ...
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    20,69 €

  • Jean Batten
    Jean Batten
    Jean Batten was born in Rotorua, New Zealand and developped a love for aviation from an early age. Her father did not approve of her love of flying and she and her mother moved to London in order to pursue her dream of becoming a pilot. Jean received her license at the London Aeroplane Club at Stag Lane and began planning for a flight from England to Australia to surpass the ...
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    15,98 €

  • Air empire
    Gordon Pirie
    Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there...
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    157,47 €

  • P-3 Orion Pilot’s flight Operating Instructions Vol. 2
    United States Navy
    Please note: this is volume two of a two volume set. You must purchase both books to have a complete manual.The U.S. Navy’s front line, land-based maritime patrol aircraft, the LockheedP-3 Orion is a highly capable anti-submarine warfare platform. Conceived as a replacement for the P-2 Neptune and P-5 Marlin, the P-3 first flew in 1961. It was loosely based on the design of ...
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    31,09 €

  • P-3 Orion Pilot’s flight Operating Instructions Vol. 1
    United States Navy
    The U.S. Navy’s front line, land-based maritime patrol aircraft, the Lockheed P-3 Orion is a highly capable anti-submarine warfare platform. Conceived as a replacement for the P-2 Neptune and P-5 Marlin, the P-3 first flew in 1961. It was loosely based on the design of the Lockheed L-188 Electra passenger aircraft. Equipped with four Allison T56 turboprop engines, the P-3 ha...
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    30,20 €

  • My Log Was My Diary
    Jean Read McLaughlin
    After retiring and more than 20,000 hours of logged flying time, with an ATP and CFI in helicopters, single and multi-engine aircraft, seaplane and instrument, she decided to use her log books to share some of her experiences and fun with others. She wrote this book, not in any real order, just hoping that someone can pick it up to any page and find something to enjoy. 3 ...
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    16,60 €

  • A-6 Intruder Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Navy
    Grumman’s A-6 Intruder served as the Navy’s pre-eminent all-weather, medium attack aircraft from 1963 to 1997. Nearly 700 were built. The Intruder was aptly named, as the A-6 quickly proved it could perform its mission -- flying low and alone in any weather - better than any aircraft of its era. Known for its versatility, the subsonic Intruder also gained a workhorse reputati...
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    34,60 €

  • A-4 Skyhawk Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Air Force
    Designed by Douglas Aircraft Co.’s brilliant engineer Ed Heinemann, the turbojet powered, delta-wing A-4 Skyhawk played akey role in conflicts from Vietnam to the Falklands and Yom Kippur Wars. The Skyhawk was intended to replace the venerable Skyraider as a carrier-based, ground attack aircraft, yet Heinemann’s design looked nothing like its predecessor. Its small, lightweigh...
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    30,92 €

  • Bristol Beaufighter Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    Minister of Aircraft Production
    Known as the 'Beau', Bristol’s Beaufighter was based on the design of the Beaufort torpedo bomber. Heavy and slow by fighter standards, it nevertheless had a long career as a fighter, fighter bomber and eventually replaced the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber. Equipped with radar in its nose, it flew over the skies of the United Kingdom in 1941 as a night-fighter and proved a stro...
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    16,62 €

  • F3H Demon Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Navy
    Designed as a replacement for the U.S. Navy’s F2H Banshee, the McDonnell F3H Demon fighter served with the fleet for nearly a decade, including during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although it could not fly at supersonic speeds, the Demon served admirably as an all-weather interceptor and flew alongside the F8U Crusader and F11F Tiger. Armed with up to four 20mm cannons, the aircra...
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    16,85 €

  • Bird Hazard in Aviation
    Rashid Ahmed
    Bird strike is a common threat to flight safety, which can often be catastrophic.Birdstrike means a collision between a flying bird and the aircraft. Bird strikes cost $1.5 billion to $2 billion in damages worldwide and $600 million only in USA. Bird strike requires more investigative attention and positive analysis to reduce these incidents.Flight safety is the main objective ...
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    14,68 €

  • Flying Ain’t What It Used To Be
    Jack V. O'Keefe / Jack V. O’Keefe
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    12,17 €

  • Beyond the Cabbage Tree
    Noel Kinvig
    'Great content, easy reading. Original and often very exciting and full of suspense'. This book is based on real life and not fiction. From struggles to triumphs Noel’s journey takes him to many corners of the globe. From digging graves in New Zealand to flying Pilatus Porter aircraft for the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Ethiopian famine. Fro...
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    58,07 €

  • Computational Models, Software Engineering, and Advanced Technologies in Air Transportation
    As the air transportation system’s capacity increase has not met the rapid growth in demand, maximizing the utilization of the infrastructure is preferred over expanding it. To make the most efficient use of the existing resources, it is then necessary to develop and implement advanced technologies. Computational Models, Software Engineering, and Advanced Technologies in Air Tr...
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    236,45 €

  • Northrop P-61 Black Widow Pilot’s Flight Manual
    Periscope Film.com
    The heavily armed P-61 Black Widow was the U.S. Army Air Force’s first dedicated night fighter. Equipped with radar, four .50 caliber machine guns and four 20mm. cannons, the Widow was a fearsome adversary. It flew as both an intruder and interceptor in Europe and the Pacific. Originally printed by Northrop in 1945, the YP-61 Pilot’s Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everyt...
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    22,39 €

  • Turns Around A Point
    Lou Fulgaro
    This is the author’s fifth book. It is a collection of his magazine articles accepted for publication over the past two years in the United States and Europe. His readers immerse themselves in the cockpit with him experiencing the sensations, the thoughts and the exhilaration. When he steps outside the cockpit and gives his strong opinions on the subject of aviation, you may no...
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    15,84 €

  • Hughes Flying Boat Manual
    Hughes Tool Company
    The legendary H-4 Hercules was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended to defeat the German U-boat threat, the plane was intended to be a super transport that could ferry 750 troops from the USA to Europe, and serve as an aerial ambulance on the return flight. Owing to wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum, the prototype Hercules was built using lami...
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    16,88 €

  • Flight Operating Instructions for X-5 Airplane
    United States Air Force
    An outgrowth of the Third Reich’s Emergency Fighter Program, the Messerschmitt P.1101 jet fighter featured a radical new design in which the sweep of the wing could be altered in flight. Captured by the Allies before it could be completed, the P.1101 was sent to the United States where it inspired the Bell X-5. Produced by a team led by Robert J. Wood, the X-5 was a true 'var...
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    11,49 €

  • Hijacking from the Ground
    Aminullah Chaudry
    Gen Musharraf’s coup in 1999 was the military’s fourth in Pakistan’s sixty years of independence. Like his martial predecessors, Musharraf tried to purge the political leadership by instituting false cases against it. While earlier Bonapartists Ayub, Yahya and Zia ul Haq had preferred to tread the beaten path by charging politicians with murder, corruption and other such charge...
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    20,32 €

  • The B-45 Tornado
    John C. Fredriksen
    The North American B-45 Tornado was America’s first jet bomber and was used in a number of vital missions for nearly a decade. Drawing from declassified secret documents, this history explains the bomber’s use in strategic reconnaissance and atomic-weapon strike missions from its 1944 development to its role in the Cold War.The book includes numerous photographs and more tha...
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    58,72 €

  • Mentor Inbound
    Sheryl L. Hutchison
    The Rockford Register-Republic newspaper carried the headline in January 1945: 'Aboard a Flying Fortress which appeared a flaming torch, spewing gasoline from its load of 15,000 gallons and trailing fire like a comet, a bomber crew which included LtCol Fred J. Ascani, Rockford pilot, continued its run over a Ploesti oil field target and came through safely. . . ' This was onl...
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    30,73 €

  • Mentor Inbound
    Sheryl L. Hutchison
    The Rockford Register-Republic newspaper carried the headline in January 1945: 'Aboard a Flying Fortress which appeared a flaming torch, spewing gasoline from its load of 15,000 gallons and trailing fire like a comet, a bomber crew which included LtCol Fred J. Ascani, Rockford pilot, continued its run over a Ploesti oil field target and came through safely. . . ' This was onl...
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    24,35 €

  • A History of Aviation Safety
    Ray Holanda / Raymond Holanda
    There have been countless books written on the history of aviation, beginning in 1896, but there has not been a book that tells the story of the history of aviation safety from its origins to the present day until now. This book features the story of the United States airline system aviation safety history from its beginnings in 1926 to the present day. A common theme appears t...
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    15,29 €

  • Amelia Earhart
    Lori Van Pelt
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    15,64 €


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