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Hurricanes and Spitfire Pilots at War by Kelley Terrence
epub |eng | | Author:Kelley, Terrence

The actual Spitfire which disintegrated in this story. ‘My straps were done up but fortunately they broke. There must have been a hell of a lot of G for the ...
( Category: Transportation June 15,2017 )
A Gift of Wings by Richard Bach
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Richard Bach [Bach, Richard]

Cat It was a cat, a gray Persian cat. It had no name and it sat very carefully in the tall grass at the end of the runway, studying the ...
( Category: Motivational June 15,2017 )
Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---And How to Reclaim Our Skies by William J. McGee
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:William J. McGee

An Outsourcing Outbreak The latest numbers are hard to uncover, but there’s no question that outsourcing keeps increasing. According to the Aeronautical Repair Station Association, the maintenance repair and overhaul ...
( Category: Transportation June 15,2017 )
Heavenly Mathematics by Van Brummelen Glen
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Van Brummelen, Glen

6 The Modern Approach: Oblique Triangles So far spherical trigonometry hasn’t looked much like the plane theory we learned in high school. However, the parallels often lie just below the ...
( Category: Mathematics June 15,2017 )
Project Seven Alpha by Leland Shanle
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Leland Shanle

Finally, the runway revealed itself through the haze. J.T. imperceptibly eased the flight 20 degrees to the left, to line up with the runway. He glanced over his shoulder to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 14,2017 )
Shadows in the Steam by David Brandon
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:David Brandon [David Brandon and Alan Brooke]

WEST MIDLANDS Coventry The first regular trains through Coventry ran on the Rugby to Birmingham section of the London & Birmingham Railway in 1838. Later on all the lines that ...
( Category: Transportation June 14,2017 )
At the Edge of Space by Milton O. Thompson
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Milton O. Thompson [Thompson, Milton O.]

MY FIRST FLIGHT My first flight in the X-15 was to be a major step up in performance compared to any previous aircraft that I had flown. However, it was ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare'sThe Tempest by Hobson Woodward
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Hobson Woodward [Woodward, Hobson]

Plans to develop an upriver settlement were delayed by an event that occurred soon after the expedition returned to Jamestown. The colonists had long feared they would encounter the Spanish ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
Advanced Avionics Handbook by Federal Aviation Administration
epub |eng | 2010-06-12 | Author:Federal Aviation Administration [Administration, Federal Aviation]

Flying a Nonprecision Approach Using Ground-Based Navigation Facilities Nonprecision approaches such as VOR, localizer, and LDA approaches are flown using the same procedures used to fly a precision approach. If ...
( Category: Transportation June 13,2017 )
The Flight by Dan Hampton
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Dan Hampton

PART THREE By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods. —CHARLES LINDBERGH EIGHT CROSSING THE BRIDGE I’VE FINALLY BROKEN the spell of ...
( Category: History May 20,2017 )
River Ouse Bargeman by David Lewis
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:David Lewis

Leaving aside those requirements, every now and then a big cloud of sulphurous smoke came out of the tug’s funnel as the stoker chucked some more coal on the fire ...
( Category: Transportation May 5,2017 )
The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2) by Simon Dunstan
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Dunstan

As the war progressed, the Israelis pressed into service all their tanks held in strategic reserve including the elderly World War II-vintage Shermans. Over the years, these Shermans had been ...
( Category: Ships April 27,2017 )
The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1) by Simon Dunstan
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Dunstan

Major General Dan Laner, the commander of the 240th Reserve Armoured Division, encourages a fellow officer during the counteroffensive on the Golan Heights. His leadership during the October War was ...
( Category: Ships April 27,2017 )
The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Steve Turner [Turner, Steve]

11 “A SOLEMNITY TOO DEEP FOR WORDS.” It was 11:45 at night according to ship’s time when the Titanic grazed along the iceberg that would send it to the ocean ...
( Category: History March 23,2017 )
The Flying Machine Book: Build and Launch 35 Rockets, Gliders, Helicopters, Boomerangs, and More (Science in Motion) by Bobby Mercer
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Bobby Mercer [Mercer, Bobby]

Falcon Frenzy Launch this fabulous bird of prey with a mere pull of a rubber band. Flight Gear Drinking straw Scissors Rubber band Paper clip Stapler Magazine cover (or any ...
( Category: Toymaking March 22,2017 )

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