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  • Advanced Aircraft Design

    Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes

    by Egbert Torenbeek, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Roy Langton, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably. Main contributors to this have been gas turbine engine technology, advanced materials, computational aerodynamics, advanced structural analysis and on-board systems. Since aircraft design ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Essentials of Supersonic Commercial Aircraft Conceptual Design

    by Egbert Torenbeek, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Provides comprehensive coverage of how supersonic commercial aircraft are designedThis must-have guide to conceptual supersonic aircraft design provides a state-of-the art overview of the subject, along with expert analysis and discussion. It examines the challenges of high-speed flight, covers aerodynamic phenomena in supersonic flow and aerodynamic drag in cruising flight, and discusses the ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

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    A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered ... Read more

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  • Flight to St Antony: An aviation mystery

    by Blackman, Tony ...
    Series series A Peter Talbert Aviation Mystery
    Flight to St Antony is a modern accurate aviation mystery/thriller where the detective Peter Talbert, an aviation insurance expert, is instrumental in solving the reason why an airliner with over two hundred people on board is forced to ditch at night in the Caribbean near the island of St Antony. There are only a few survivors, all from the rear of the aircraft and they were saved through the ... Read more

    $4.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right Kind of Crazy

    A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation

    by Adam Steltzner, William Patrick ...
    From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossibleThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of engineering. When NASA needed to land Curiosity—a 2,000-pound, $2.5 billion rover—on the surface of Mars, ... Read more

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  • Aircraft Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition

    by Thomas K. Eismin ...
    Complete coverage of modern electrical and electronics systems for aircraftFully updated for the latest technological advances, this comprehensive text describes design concepts, FAA certification requirements, and aerospace-quality maintenance and repair techniques for aircraft electrical and electronics systems. The materials contained in this book will benefit designers, engineers, and ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • The First Blitz

    Bombing London in the First World War

    by Ian Castle ...
    The First Blitz tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized.The first Zeppelin attack on London came in May 1915 – and with it came the birth of a new arena of warfare, the 'home front'. German airships attempted to raid London on 26 separate occasions between May 1915 and October 1917, but only reached the capital and bombed successfully ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Pilot's Pocket Decoder

    by Christopher J. Abbe ...
    Compact enough to slip into your flight ease and comrehensive enough to ensure master, of the daily parlance of pilots, this handy reference clarifies nearly 3,000 essential acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, technical terms, and slang definitions used in aviation. Completely up to date and categorically alphabetized, this crucial resource covers everything you need to know. ... Read more

    $28.69 CAD

  • The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual

    1941-1945

    by Martin Robson ...
    The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring – notably the 'dambusters' raid of 617 squadron on the Ruhr valley dams in May 1943. The success of such operations was testament both to the ... Read more

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  • Principles of Flight

    by Phillip Duke ...
    The hows and whys of lighter and heavier than air flight are explained in theory, and described. in practice. Theoretical subjects include the Laws of Motion and Archimedes's and Bernoulli's Principles, as they apply to atmospheric flight.Aircraft described and discussed include everything from the supersonic SR-71 Blackbird, and the Concorde, to sporty ultralights including the man-powered ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Low-Speed Aerodynamics

    by Joseph Katz, Allen Plotkin ...
    Series Book 13 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    Low-speed aerodynamics is important in the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach number, and ground and marine vehicles. This 2001 book offers a modern treatment of the subject, both the theory of inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational aerodynamics and the computational techniques now available to solve complex problems. A unique feature of the text is that the computational ... Read more

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  • The Hubble Space Telescope

    From Concept to Success

    by David J. Shayler, David M. Harland ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe. Within weeks of its launch in 1990, however, the space community was shocked to find out that the primary mirror of the telescope was flawed. It was only the skills of scientists and engineers on the ground and the daring talents of astronauts sent to service the telescope in December 1993 ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD