Highly acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage of the aviation industries and their products, from the turn of the century to the present, this popular series includes an abundance of photos and highly accurate line drawings. Each volume provides fascinating evaluations of aircraft design and construction and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
Winner of the Summerfield Book Award. The next great leap for jet propulsion will be to power-sustained, efficient flight through the atmosphere.
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Thirty-nine papers from a June 1998 conference include development track presentations from planners involved with Dallas/Ft. Worth, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and metropolitan Washington airports. Coverage includes current issues...
Safer Skies: Aviation Weather Research : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation of the Committee on Science,...
The classic first analysis of the art of flying is back, now in a special 50th anniversary limited edition with a foreword by Cliff Robertson. leatherette binding, and gold foil...
This text examines the harsh lessons of air tragedies, detailing some of the operational experiences which, for all their grim consequences, helped to evolve a global mass-transport system to a...
This story tells, in clear detail, how Sikorsky Aircraft developed, tested, modified, and produced one of the most successful helicopters in the world. Written by the man considered to be...
This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes’ discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a...
Celebrating a Century of Flight