azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Archard, L. [Archard, L.]

Two views of the Martin factory at Offut, Nebraska, one of four plants where the B-29 Superfortress bomber was assembled. The top picture shows the production line and the second ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Bowman, Martin W [Bowman, Martin W]

Footnotes 80 Rogers later gained a DFM and he was commissioned. He was KIA on 8/9 April 1943 flying as second pilot of a Halifax II on 76 Squadron. 81 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Jeff Wise [Wise, Jeff]

INTERLUDE A SPECULATIVE SCENARIO MARCH 8, 2014. 12.15am. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A line of passengers shuffles down the aisle to their seats, subdued and sleepy. It’s late, and the flight ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Richard Branson [Branson, Richard]

PLANE SAILING When we were getting ready to launch Virgin Atlantic, and with zero experience whatsoever in the airline industry, I realised how important the ability to delegate was going ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Schiff, Barry

ON FINAL APPROACH Dragon Lady is still drifting toward the upper limits of the atmosphere at 100 to 200 fpm and will continue to do so until it is time ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-01 | 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 ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Seth Shulman

For the AEA, the path to a working airplane has been remarkably swift, with surprisingly few missteps. By December 1907, the group completed its first glider, the Cygnet, based on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Bhargava, Jitender [Bhargava, Jitender]

BLIND EYE It did not need an investigator to bring out the aberrations mentioned above; a glance through the airline’s 2006–07 annual report would have sufficed. Interestingly, the airline’s annual ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Palmer, Bill [Palmer, Bill]

When the flap handle is out of the UP position (i.e., flaps out), positioning the thrust levers to TOGA commands full power and also commands the go-around mode in the ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Laurence Gonzales [Gonzales, Laurence]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN At one or two o’clock on the morning of July 20, when the Grumman Gulfstream touched down at the Sioux City airport and taxied to the ramp, more ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-28 | Author:Jim Eames

8 There’s something about low flying It was Lae, Papua New Guinea, early 1966. The telephone rings in the New Guinea Times Courier office. Brian Costello, local manager for Ansett-ANA, ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain de]

Milan Kundera was being suggested as a guide to Prague, and Raymond Carver depended upon to reveal the hidden character of the small towns between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Patrick Smith

That last one sounds like a chapter from a fantasy novel. Head instead to La Layal, a great little Lebanese place up the street, where, once you get past the ...