Aviation and the Environment
This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to sett...
Die Preisbildung Im Luftverkehr (Verkehrswissenschaftliche Forschungen, #43)
by Wilhelm Laschet, Fritz Voigt, and Hermann Witte
Plunkett's Transportation, Supply Chain & Logistics Industry Almanac 2011
by Jack W Plunkett
Aviation Aeroplano - 120 pagine, a righe, aviazione, pilota, volo, aeroporto, aviazione
by Mamor
The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: those who fly. Debunks long-rooted misconceptions and offers a clear, minimal-math presentation that starts with how airplanes fly and goes on to clarify a diverse range of topics, such as design, propulsion, performance, high-speed flight, and flight testing. Not-to-be missed insights for pilots, inst...
Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'. In this be...
Helicopter Operations in Natural Hostile Environments
