Transportation
epub |eng | 2002-09-19 | Author:Eileen F. Lebow

A confident Harriet Quimby, America’s first licensed woman pilot, prepares to take off as Gustav Hamel gives a last-minute assist. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, INC. Lowering from about ...
( Category: Women September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-20 | Author:Cabbage, Michael & Harwood, William [Cabbage, Michael]

It was at an altitude and an airspeed that was probably not survivable. We don’t have confirmation of that, but I don’t want to give you a false sense that ...
( Category: Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:David M. Harland

Toehiro Akiyama (left), Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanasayev. When Soyuz-TM 11 docked at Mir's front port on 4 December, it delivered Viktor Afanasayev, Musa Manarov and Toehiro Akiyama, who was ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Peter W. Merlin; Gregg A. Bendrick; Dwight A. Holland

CONCLUSIONS As flight research has progressed to entail increasingly complicated aerospace vehicles flying at higher altitudes and speeds (and at times featuring unusual aerodynamic properties, such as those of the ...
( Category: Safety & First Aid September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-08-12 | Author:Lipartito, Kenneth & Butler, Orville R [Lipartito, Kenneth]

8-8. Once test flights were done, the work of installing payloads to take advantage of the shuttle’s massive payload capacity began. Thus far the debate about turnaround time had been ...
( Category: Americas September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Dennis R. Jenkins

Image credit: Courtesy of the David Clark Company, Inc. The Model 18 was another attempt to provide a large dome that could cover a standard flying helmet and oxygen mask. ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Richard Bach

CHAPTER TWELVE I CHECKED THE TAILSKID SHOE first thing in the morning. It needed some extra wire to hold it in place and this meant lifting the tail back onto ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 18,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-09-17 | Author:Richard de Neufville & Amedeo R. Odoni

Specific implications The differences in decision-making processes and criteria of performance translate into specific differences in how airport operators develop their facilities different countries. These concern • artifacts—what they construct ...
( Category: Engineering September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-21 | Author:Paul Butler

Tommy I waited in silence. It was cool beneath this high-domed ceiling, and there was a tingle in the soft breeze that had somehow made its way into the Cathedral. ...
( Category: Criminal Law September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Bruce Orr

One branch of the service that is often overlooked for its service during times of war is the United States Coast Guard. The average person does not realize the contributions ...
( Category: Americas September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1983-09-16 | Author:Harold Gatty

Barkhan or crescent dunes in snow (above) and sand (below) This desert dune topography is not entirely confined to the world’s present deserts, for many great areas in temperate zones ...
( Category: Survival Skills September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:A.M. Arthur [Arthur, A.M.]

Chapter Twelve Jaime changed his outfit four times before settling on a pair of slightly too tight black jeans and an azure blue Henley over a white sleeveless undershirt. He ...
( Category: Transportation September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Emilio Corsetti III

Chapter 19 WHILE EVERYONE IN THE WATER WAS CERTAIN THAT help was on the way, the ominous-looking sky led some to ponder the possibility that the deteriorating weather might hamper ...
( Category: Transportation September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Rajesh, Monisha [Rajesh, Monisha]

11 | The Venus Flytrap of Insanity During our time on the Indian Maharaja, we had covered Udaipur, Jaipur and Sawai Madhopur, so we were now free to climb north ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 11,2017 )