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  • To Caress the Air
    C. David Gierke / CDavid Gierke
    To Caress the Air continues to track the progress of Augustus Herring as he prepares to fly his revolutionary powered aeroplane. Gus, still optimistic after a series of nagging technical setbacks, believes that the upcoming trials will be the “next great step” in unraveling the problems of manned, heavier-than-air flight.            A series of tragic events pushed Herring to t...
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    42,61 €

  • To Caress the Air
    C. David Gierke / CDavid Gierke
    To Caress the Air continues to track the progress of Augustus Herring as he prepares to fly his revolutionary powered aeroplane. Gus, still optimistic after a series of nagging technical setbacks, believes that the upcoming trials will be the “next great step” in unraveling the problems of manned, heavier-than-air flight.            A series of tragic events pushed Herring to t...
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    33,66 €

  • Aviation and the Role of CAREC
    Asian Development Bank
    This study examines the potential role of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program in improving aviation in the region.The study provides an analysis of the CAREC region’s current state of aviation, and is structured around three principal components of aviation development: policy and regulation, infrastructure and equipment, and operations. It also descr...
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    28,27 €

  • A Barnstormer Aviator
    Nick Vuyosevich
    Nick Vuyosevich’s flying tales were told to his daughter Nina Anderson, author of 20 books and a retired professional pilot, who produced this archival treasure. His stories encompass a myriad of untold flying lore including a chat with Chamberlin who divulged the reason he technically lost to Lindbergh in his famous Atlantic crossing. Not only a story for pilots, Nick gives us...
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    9,55 €

  • Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told
    Lamar Underwood
    At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had constructed to a distance less than the length of the wingspan of today's 747 jet. They made three other flights the same day, the final lasting 59 seconds for a distance over the...
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    17,01 €

  • Flight Attendants Lost In the Line of Duty
    B. Elizabeth Chabot / BElizabeth Chabot
    'The pilots were attempting to return to Honolulu but with the failure of both engines on the right wing of the UAL 747, combined with massive structural damage, there was a very real possibility that they would be required to ditch. The thought of ditching into the ocean in the dark of night is daunting. The flight attendants could have secured themselves in their jump seats b...
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    27,73 €

  • Flight Attendants Lost In the Line of Duty
    B. Elizabeth Chabot / BElizabeth Chabot
    'The pilots were attempting to return to Honolulu but with the failure of both engines on the right wing of the UAL 747, combined with massive structural damage, there was a very real possibility that they would be required to ditch. The thought of ditching into the ocean in the dark of night is daunting. The flight attendants could have secured themselves in their jump seats b...
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    40,12 €

  • Flight Attendant Fast Track Career Guide
    Carlin Laviolet Clarke
    Professor of Aviation Science and Flight Attendant Program Director, Carlin Laviolet Clarke, introduces you to the dream job of a Flight Attendant and what it takes to get hired in this competitive position. Get an insiders view about the Airline Industry, Crew Lifestyle, and Flight Attendant Job Outlook. Carlin explains the Flight Attendant Qualities that all airlines look for...
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    18,60 €

  • 81 Lessons From The Sky
    Fletcher McKenzie
    Do you want to be the pilot who comes home after every flight?Learn from the experiences of other pilots so you don't become another air incident statistic. 81 Lessons From The Sky contains eighty-one easy-to-read, true stories from actual pilots, including what they learnt from their accidents and near misses. Eighty-one stories from around the globe, from the General Avia...
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    19,21 €

  • Recent Advancements in Airborne Radar Signal Processing
    Amir Almslmany
    As computer and information systems technology advances, industries such as aviation stand to benefit from the overwhelming new advances in hardware, software, and best practices. Recent Advancements in Airborne Radar Signal Processing: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource exploring an airborne radar system that will help to improve the function ...
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    190,12 €

  • To Caress the Air
    C. David Gierke / CDavid Gierke
    Most people accept the view that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. “Not so!” according to American aviation pioneer Augustus Moore Herring. “The aeroplane has a good many daddies.” Herring should know; he was there.To Caress the Air is a biographical novel based on Herring’s 22-year career in aeronautics. The story takes place in the United States during the late 19th ...
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    33,66 €

  • To Caress the Air
    C. David Gierke / CDavid Gierke
    Most people accept the view that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. “Not so!” according to American aviation pioneer Augustus Moore Herring. “The aeroplane has a good many daddies.” Herring should know; he was there.To Caress the Air is a biographical novel based on Herring’s 22-year career in aeronautics. The story takes place in the United States during the late 19th ...
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    42,61 €

  • Behind The Flight Deck Door
    Brett Manders
    Ever wondered what goes on inside the cockpit of a passenger plane? Ever wanted to know how a jet engine works or what happens if a plane is struck by lightning? Behind the Flight Deck Door provides insider knowledge about everything you have ever wanted to ask a pilot!Since 9/11, flight decks of modern airliners have become off-limits to the flying public. This is despite the ...
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    20,57 €

  • MH370
    Larry Vance
    On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 people on board, disappeared into the dark of the night, never to be heard from again. The disappearance of MH370 has been described as the “greatest mystery in the history of aviation“. Despite the efforts of an international investigation team, and millions of dollars spent searching the ocean bottom for the wreckage ...
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    20,26 €

  • Private-Airplane Passenger Safety
    John O. Graybill
    A Guide for Private-Airplane PassengersYour pilot may be a good friend, a nice person, your spouse, or a close relative, but can you tell if he or she is being a safe pilot?In Private-Airplane Passenger Safety, Master Pilot John O. Graybill identifies what every passenger needs to know in easy-to-understand, non-technical language that could save your life. Graybill’s simple re...
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    24,32 €

  • United States Marine Corps Aircraft Since 1913
    E.R. Johnson / Lloyd S. Jones
    Among the world’s military air arms, United States Marine Corps Aviation occupies a unique tactical niche. As the air component of a combined-arms expeditionary force, it exists primarily to support Marine combat forces on the ground in their amphibious assault mission. From the 'Banana Wars' of the 1920s to the present day 'War on Terror,' Marine aviation has undergone a le...
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    74,38 €

  • The Practical Pilot
    Owen Zupp
    The Practical Pilot delivers an easy-to-read, common sense guide for pilots that goes beyond the classroom.Experience is a valued commodity for every pilot and can only come with time. Within these pages, the author shares the lessons he has learned from more than 20,000 hours of flying and from listening to others in cockpits and dusty hangars alike.With topics ranging from fl...
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    22,21 €

  • Ragwings Over The Sacramento River
    Allen Herr / Kathe Herr
    Historical accounts of the first successful flight in California’s capital city and other notable Northern California flights that followed over three decades, the courageous aviators, and development of long forgotten airports from which they flew. Among them is the story of aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott’s 1912 flights and Sac Muni female pilots twenty years later. Included is...
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    41,30 €

  • Stress is Relative
    Rose M Kern
    Ever since Rose became an air traffic controller in 1983 people meeting her immediately comment about how stressful her job is. But is it the job? Is it being a woman in a mostly male profession?Rose's memoir STRESS is Relative follows her career in ATC from the time she first heard about this challenging and lucrative job to the day she retired. Along the way readers get i...
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    17,41 €

  • That Lucky Old Son
    Mark Cote
    A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing f...
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    28,03 €

  • That Lucky Old Son
    Mark Cote
    A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing f...
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    17,39 €

  • The Unlimited Sky
    Albert F. Schmid
    The Unlimited Sky is a book, written by Albert Schmid that answers the question, Why did you ever get into aviation? It tells the story of the authors lifelong career in aviation from the time he took his very first flight, to his experiences as Naval Aviator, followed by flying as a corporate pilot. It describes his career change when he moved to the marketing and demonstrati...
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    21,00 €

  • The Unlimited Sky
    Albert F. Schmid
    The Unlimited Sky is a book, written by Albert Schmid that answers the question, Why did you ever get into aviation? It tells the story of the authors lifelong career in aviation from the time he took his very first flight, to his experiences as Naval Aviator, followed by flying as a corporate pilot. It describes his career change when he moved to the marketing and demonstrati...
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    16,28 €

  • Talewinds
    James B. McConville
    Talewinds combines author James B. McConville’s love of aviation history and technology with his real-life interactions with a diverse group of fliers, many of whom he met while working as an engineer or while pursuing his passion for airplanes.     A collection of essays told mostly from memory, Talewinds retells the often exciting experiences of these pilots who flew stunt pl...
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    11,46 €

  • Socio-Technical Decision Support in Air Navigation Systems
    Nina Rizun / Tetiana Shmelova / Yuliya Sikirda
    The integration of technology into the aviation system planning has allowed for more stable, yet increasingly complex, models that enable better analysis techniques and new approaches to decision-making. These modern advances ensure higher productivity in addressing various planning problems. Socio-Technical Decision Support in Air Navigation Systems: Emerging Research and Oppo...
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    229,73 €

  • Wright Brothers
    Omega G. East
    Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills are American place names that will live in History. Here Wilbur and Orville Wright, two unassuming brothers with a passion for advancing aeronautical knowledge, and the willingness to undertake a scientific adventure, made the worlds first successful flight of a man-carrying, power-driven heavier then air machine.December 17, 1903, was the day ma...
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    9,40 €

  • Fatal Flight
    Bill Hammack
    Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British n...
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    11,40 €

  • Sky Patrol 1938
    Phillip W. Stewart / Phillip WStewart
    Those of us, who are fascinated by 1930’s aviation, study the decade primarily through the written word and photographs. If we’re lucky, we get to see a favorite vintage airplane at an air show, beautifully restored and oozing vast amounts of art deco ambiance. However, there is another resource—the MCA/Universal Newsreel Library Collection preserved within the U.S. National Ar...
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    24,14 €

  • Two Towers
    T D Arkenberg
    Sometimes, life pushes you to the brink. In his poignant memoir, Two Towers, T.D. Arkenberg navigates readers through a personal perfect storm. A resurgence of his father’s long-dormant cancer and chaos at his job in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks serve as the backdrop for a private struggle with a secret hidden for thirty-seven years. The story opens on Ch...
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    29,49 €

  • Two Towers
    T D Arkenberg
    Sometimes, life pushes you to the brink. In his poignant memoir, Two Towers, T.D. Arkenberg navigates readers through a personal perfect storm. A resurgence of his father’s long-dormant cancer and chaos at his job in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks serve as the backdrop for a private struggle with a secret hidden for thirty-seven years. The story opens on Ch...
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    21,70 €


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