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 | 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 |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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Chesley B. Sullenberger

WHEN THERE are maintenance issues or other delays, I believe in telling passengers exactly what is going on. Sometimes a plane has to be taken out of service after passengers ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-26 | Author:Michael Cabbage & William Harwood

Gehman spent the afternoon at his home, reading contingency plan documents being faxed to him by Gregory’s office. The first thing he decided to do was change the name of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jay Spenser

9 FLIGHT DECK COCKPITS FOR AERIAL SHIPS Deep into the darkness peering; long I stood there wondering, fearing… —“THE RAVEN” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849) As human beings built their ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Richard Holmes [Richard Holmes]

The picture seems to carry an allegorical message, skilfully developed from that of the Times editorial: the Scientist presses the extreme limits of Nature at his peril. The well-ordered world ...