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  • Needle, Ball, and Alcohol: The Second Great Fleet Biplane Excursion

    by Phill Bragg ...
    In an antique, open-cockpit biplane, pilot Phill Bragg and his friend, Wayland Cooke, fly across the United States during the hot summer of 2012. After enduring delays for a whole year, they finally depart from northeastern North Carolina in search of old friends in Greensburg, Kansas, whose town was demolished by a relentless tornado one tragic night. Their high-flying adventure takes them across ... Read more

    $2.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Since its first flight on 27 April 2005, the Airbus A380 has been the largest passenger airliner in the world. Instantly recognizable with its full-length upper deck, it represents the pinnacle of modern airliner design. ... Read more

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  • Storms of Controversy

    The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed

    by Palmiro Campagna ...
    The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the ... Read more

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  • Flight of The Mew Gull

    Record-breaking flying in the 1930s

    by Alex Henshaw ...
    Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the '20s and '30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King's Cup: Henshaw set his heart on it, developing a technique of racing which extracted the very maximum from his aircraft: first the Comper Swift and then the DH Leopard Moth. Parallel with his search for speed was an ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Learning to Fly Helicopters, Second Edition

    by R. Randall Padfield ...
    A comprehensive guide to helicopter flying and flight training for aspiring private or professional helicopter pilots--updated for the first time in 20 years!Extensively revised to cover the latest industry advances, Learning to Fly Helicopters, Second Edition, provides details on the technical and practical aspects of rotarywing flight, guiding you from preflight preparation through postflight ... Read more

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  • Jet Provost

    The Little Plane with the Big History

    by Bob Clarke ...
    On 26 June 1954 a small private venture development aircraft built by Hunting Percival Ltd made the first of three proving flights at Luton. Driven by the performance of jet fighters in the Korean War the British Government sponsored the development of the aircraft - the Jet Provost. By 1959 the first 'All Through Jet Training' courses in the world were being run by the Royal Air Force. Over 500 ... Read more

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  • BAC One-Eleven

    The Whole Story

    by Stephen Skinner ...
    In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built ... Read more

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  • Bracing for Impact

    True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them

    by Robin Suerig Holleran, Lindy Philip ...
    Surviving is a true blessing that few get to experience.”Being strapped in the seat of a plane as it plunges into a nosedive midair is everyone’s worst nightmare. Bracing for Impact’s compilers and contributors know. They have both lived out that fear and survived, albeit badly hurt, in their own plane crashes.In this collection of true-life survivor tales, people from all walks of life-a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Around the World in 50 Years

    The Stories of a Pan American World Airways Aeronautical Engineer

    by Vincent P. Flury ...
    Vince Flury spent 50 years in the field of Aviation. He started out as an Aircraft and Engine Mechanic in the U. S. Air Force. He attended the University of Miami School of Engineering under the G. I. Bill. After graduation, was hired by Pan American World Airways as an Aeronautical Engineer. He retired from Pan Am after 30 years and opened his own Aeronautical Consulting Service which he operated ... Read more

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  • The Speed of Heat

    An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Thomas W. Young ...
    With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift.This book tells the story of one Air National Guard airlift wing as related by its members ... Read more

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  • Encyclopaedia of International Aviation Law

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    by Philip Forsang Ndikum, Serge-Delors Ndikum ...
    The four volumes of the encyclopedia of Cameroon aviation law are intended for students, lawyers, judges, scholars, and readers of all backgrounds with an interest in aviation law and to provide the definitive corpus of relevant national and regional legislation, including global aviation treaties and legislation, to enable all readers, without exception, to develop the background, knowledge, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance

    by Antonio Filippone ...
    Series Book 34 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    This book discusses aircraft flight performance, focusing on commercial aircraft but also considering examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. The book covers topics such as geometrical configurations, configuration aerodynamics and determination of ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD