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Not Much of an Engineer by Stanley Hooker
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 ...
( Category: History of Technology January 16,2020 )
Combat Ready: Lessons Learned in the Journey to Fighter Pilot by Captain Taylor Fox
epub |eng | 2016-12-09 | Author:Captain Taylor Fox [Fox, Captain Taylor]

PART 4: Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF) Pre IFF After graduation, I drove to Missouri and my grandpa and I flew our Bonanza out to Yosemite National Park. It was ...
( Category: Aviation January 16,2020 )
The Long Way Home (Revised Ed) by Ed Dover
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Ed Dover [Dover, Ed]

Crew members at their stations on the flight deck. From L to R: Navigator, Pilot and Co-Pilot, Radio Officer, Engineering Officer CHAPTER X EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE On the ...
( Category: Aviation October 8,2019 )
Test Pilot by Neville Duke
epub |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Neville Duke

CHAPTER 8 Glimpsing the Future I SPENT my leave at home in Tonbridge, with occasional trips up to London, and it was more than pleasant to be back again with ...
( Category: World War II September 9,2019 )
No Man's Land by Kevin Sullivan
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-04 | Author:Kevin Sullivan

17. Somewhere in Europe, my daughter and her boyfriend arrive at their next destination, check in to their hotel and settle into their room. My text message has my daughter ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction September 5,2019 )
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (Federal Aviation Administration) by Federal Aviation Administration
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:Federal Aviation Administration

Management of Weight and Balance Control Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 23, section 23.23 requires establishment of the ranges of weights and CGs within ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction August 2,2019 )
GLIDING by Longland Steve
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Longland, Steve. [Stephen Longland]

LOOKOUT Lookout is vital to safe flight. It needs practice largely because we aren’t really ‘designed’ to be up in the air. Our field of vision is far smaller than ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction July 16,2019 )
China Clipper by Robert Gandt
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

16 China Clipper Ed Musick was a reluctant hero. He abhorred the flashbulbs and handshakes and the constant clamor for remarks about what, to him, was simply a job. But ...
( Category: Aviation February 28,2019 )
Aviation Maintenance Technician by Dale Crane
epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:Dale Crane

Figure 10-33. Divergent inlet duct used on a high-bypass-ratio turbofan engine. Part of the fan discharge air is used as the inlet air for the core engine. The air inlet ...
( Category: Aviation October 29,2018 )
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 )
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 )
Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am by Gandt Robert
epub |eng | | Author:Gandt, Robert

No one knew for sure how the chicken got in Al Bond’s locker. But there it was one day, when Chicken Man came to the crew lounge and opened his ...
( Category: History March 22,2017 )
The Crash Detectives by Christine Negroni
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Christine Negroni

Deflection The single aisle Boeing 737, introduced in 1968, is Boeing’s best-selling airliner and has flown in nine different versions. On March 3, 1991, a United Airlines 737 crashed preparing ...
( Category: History March 1,2017 )
Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space by Sally Armstrong
epub |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Sally Armstrong

The captain wanted to stay as close to the Red Arrows as aviation law would permit. He also wanted to show Concorde off to the crowds below. Not to be ...
( Category: Commercial July 23,2016 )
TWA 800 by Jack Cashill
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Jack Cashill

Chapter: FOURTEEN MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON In late November 2002, I was strolling the concrete banks of Brush Creek, a channelized waterway that runs through the heart of Kansas ...
( Category: History July 8,2016 )

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