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Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship by Tom Clancy & John Gresham
epub |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:Tom Clancy & John Gresham [Clancy, Tom & Gresham, John]

Tactical Example—Stalking a Russian SSBN They’re still out there. They’re called boomers in the U.S. Navy, bombers in the Royal Navy. They are the fleet ballistic missile submarines, really creatures ...
( Category: Transportation August 28,2017 )
A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain De]

Every skilful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses – and in so doing prompts ...
( Category: Transportation August 28,2017 )
Ships and Science : The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 by Ferreiro Larrie D
mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-08-24 | Author:Ferreiro, Larrie D. [Ferreiro, Larrie D.]

230 Chapter 4 Figure 4.21 Bouguer’s diagram of the metacenter (1746). (Bouguer, Traité du navire [1746], plate 6) Where: p = submerged volume, Γ = upright CB, g = inclined ...
( Category: Engineering August 28,2017 )
The Great Titanic Conspiracy by Robin Gardiner
mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Robin Gardiner

Chapter 13 ‘Westbound steamers report bergs...’ Sunday 14 April 1912 on the North Atlantic dawned cold and clear. Titanic still headed westwards at better than 22 knots. Less than 200 ...
( Category: Transportation August 28,2017 )
Drones For Dummies by Mark LaFay
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Mark LaFay

Wi-Fi Controls The Wi-Fi alliance says that Wi-Fi is any “wireless local area network” product based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard 802.11. Today, Wi-Fi is ...
( Category: Transportation August 27,2017 )
Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel
epub, pdf |eng | 1958-12-14 | Author:Hans Ulrich Rudel [Rudel, Hans Ulrich]

I have now covered at least six miles. I guess I must have done ten or twelve yesterday, so that I should be sixteen or eighteen miles South of the ...
( Category: Military August 27,2017 )
The Troller Yacht Book: How To Cross Oceans Without Getting Wet Or Going Broke by George Buehler
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:George Buehler [Buehler, George]

V/L Speed (knots) Horsepower Fuel/Hr (gal) Range with 800 gallons 1.15 7.27 12 0.72 8,077 miles 1.20 7.59 16 1.02 5,953 1.3 8.22 28.4 1.7 3,859 1.35 8.54 52.2 3.13 ...
( Category: Transportation August 26,2017 )
Be Free or Die--The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry
epub |eng | | Author:Cate Lineberry

CHAPTER 8 Captain Smalls Smalls had a lot on his mind In late November 1863. He and Hannah were expecting their third child any day while mourning the recent death ...
( Category: Americas August 26,2017 )
The Last Enemy Richard Hillary by Richard Hillary
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Richard Hillary [Hillary, Richard]

5 The Invaders AFTER kicking our heels for two days at Turnhouse, a reaction set in. We were like children with the promise of a trip to the seaside, broken ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 26,2017 )
The Paradoxal Compass by Horatio Morpurgo
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Horatio Morpurgo [Horatio Morpurgo]

NIGHT FALLS, QUICKLY The travel narratives of the early explorers are riddled with memory-holes and evasions: dates that don’t agree, glaring omissions, the merest glimpses of what we should now ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2017 )
The Great Locomotive Chase by Gordon Rottman
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Rottman

THE GENERAL The General, the locomotive stolen by Andrews’ raiders, was a design known as the American Standard or “eight-wheeler.” It is not known what “general” she was named after. ...
( Category: Transportation August 26,2017 )
North Sea Battleground: The War at Sea 1914-1918 by Bryan Perrett
epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Bryan Perrett [Perrett, Bryan]

CHAPTER 9 Strafing the Island (1) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was born in 1838. He served in the Royal Wurttemberg Army, in which he fought during the Franco-German War of ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Sextant by David Barrie
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:David Barrie

Chapter 13 Flinders—Shipwreck and Captivity Day 14: A grey dawn but still a fair wind and making 5 knots. Colin announced that we were halfway. The bread from Halifax has ...
( Category: Transportation August 22,2017 )
Sultana by Alan Huffman
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Huffman

Chapter Ten RELEASE IN SEPTEMBER THE PRISONERS SAW THE FIRST SIGNS that their long ordeal was coming to an end. The odds of survival increased with every trainload of prisoners ...
( Category: Americas August 22,2017 )
Wings Across Canada by Peter Pigott
epub |eng | 2002-08-22 | Author:Peter Pigott

SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE The air aces who flew her (Douglas Bader, Johnnie Johnson, Al Deer, Robert “Buck” McNair, and Gordon McGregor) all bring the magic of the aircraft’s name to life. ...
( Category: Transportation August 22,2017 )

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