epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Alan Gallop

Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb was still on Reclaim during the early days of May – and most of her crew wished he was elsewhere. Crabb was disparaging of his fellow ...

epub |eng | | Author:Colin Higgs

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress can easily be forgotten as it never served in Europe during the Second World War. However it was, by some way, the most technically advanced bomber ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Alexander Rose

* * * — IN CONTRAST, THE flight to Japan was easy and the Graf Zeppelin was everywhere greeted with fulsome acclamation. Wrote a reporter rapturously, the airship “glinted in ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-21 | Author:Losik Ph.D, Len [Losik Ph.D, Len]

W hen recording PCM telemetry, it is important to ensure that the recorder provides sufficient frequency response to capture and reproduce the PCM signal. The following general rules may be ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Bektas, Metin [Bektas, Metin]

------------------------------------- Example 17: Many science fiction movies feature rotating space stations in shape of a torus. The idea behind this is that the centrifugal force produced by the rotation would ...

epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Andrew Dow [Dow, Andrew]

Assuming that George Brown’s account of the conversation is accurate, it was clearly not the whole story. It could not be assumed that Bristol Siddeley had spare capacity, as in ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Peter Westwick [Westwick, Peter]

Once the planform was set, the next step was to add volume to the aircraft. The ideal shape to minimize radar cross section is an infinitely thin flat plate. A ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Harry Yates [Harry Yates]

CHAPTER NINE BUT GOD DISPOSES Mepal was inactive for thirty-six hours after our return. But on the morning of 5 September a closely-typed sheet of paper was pinned to the ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:Sutton, George P.,Biblarz, Oscar & Oscar Biblarz [Sutton, George P. & Biblarz, Oscar]

Figure 10–2 Exploded view of an advanced high‐speed, two‐stage experimental liquid hydrogen fuel pump driven by a radial flow turbine. Used with permission of Aerojet Rocketdyne. Adapted from Ref. 10–7. ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-12 | Author:james e. david

epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Tanya Harrison & Danny Bednar [Harrison, Tanya & Bednar, Danny]

••• After the school semester, and reluctantly returning the Ranger 7 atlas to his classmate’s father, seventeen-year-old Phil was on summer break from secondary school. He spent no small part ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Captain Jack Watson

Chapter 10 : Typical Day Gone Bad The likelihood of a typical passenger’s involvement in an airliner accident is similar to the odds of being struck by lightning. Flying in ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Launius, Roger D.;

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:Sarah Scoles

Before the SETI scientists could find smart-looking signals from space, though, they needed to understand the strange signals the universe produces naturally, and the signals humans put out with their ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Pasquale M Sforza & Pasquale M Sforza [Sforza, Pasquale M]

The recovery factor r represents the fraction of ordered kinetic energy that is lost to heat by friction. It has been found that the recovery factor is well correlated by ...