epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Graham Simons

epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Joseph J. Corn [Corn, Joseph J.]

OVER KOREA: 1952 James Salter from The Hunters James Salter (b. 1925) graduated from West Point in 1945 and joined the Air Force. While serving as an F-86 Sabrejet pilot ...

epub |eng | | Author:Adam L. Alpert

“Mister Sulu, course 113, mark 7.” We watch as the navigator pushes a few colored buttons on the console and voila! The starship precisely alters course. “Standard orbit, Mister Sulu.” ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Lauren Kessler [Kessler, Lauren]

13 Pancho’s Fly-Inn When the war ended and the U.S. government lifted the ban on civilian flying, Pancho quickly moved to reopen her field. But to her astonishment, her application ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Macarthur Job [Job, Macarthur]

Operational Inadequacies Fellowship services were initiated without an Air Ontario operating manual. Neither was there an approved Minimum Equipment List until some months later. Crews thus lacked standardised operational guidelines. ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Budd, Lucy, Goetz, Andrew R.

The Future Availability of Aviation Fuel ‘Peak oil’, the date at which the maximum rate of oil extraction is reached, has been projected for many years (Hubbert 1956), although there ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Helmut Mahlke

I submitted a full report on the débâcle to our Geschwaderkommodore and requested that he take the matter up with Jafü 2, stressing the fact that this was no way ...

epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Musgrove, Frank; [Musgrove, Frank;]

The former pupils of the secondary grammar schools, with their Matric and perhaps HSC, rose magnificently, at times heroically, to their country’s challenge. The challenge called for great technical skill ...

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It was now the very height of the Mediterranean summer and midday temperatures were horribly high. We had to rig makeshift sunshades to shield the cockpits; this made them just ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-26 | Author:Jackson, Colonel Matt [Jackson, Colonel Matt]

Chapter 22 Times with Dad I had ninety-nine days left before I would go back to the States. Actually, it was my first day of being a double-digit midget. I ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-18 | Author:Zamoyski, Adam [Zamoyski, Adam]

9 - Bombing For the British public there could hardly be an image more dashing and romantic than that of the daredevil Polish fighters giving their all to defend London ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Alan Gallop

The de Havilland Comet 1 was a revolutionary new form of air transportation and the world’s first pure jet passenger aircraft to enter commercial scheduled service. With flying speeds of ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Stanley Hooker [Hooker, Stanley]

Chapter 7 The Proteus I joined the Bristol Engine Division on 3 January 1949, full of optimism. The company was still producing large numbers of the excellent Hercules and Centaurus ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-09 | Author:Captain Taylor Fox [Fox, Captain Taylor]

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mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:William Burrows

* By way of reemphasizing that no tricks were being played, Korolyov not only had Nikolayev and Popovich communicate over open radio channels, describing each other’s spacecraft, but they made ...