Search results for “[Subject: aviation-general]”

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora!...

• Author(s): Donald M. Pattillo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The industry known as "general aviation"--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial...

• Author(s): Henry Bond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with ...

• Author(s): Dale De Remer • Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics • Publisher Imprint: Aviation Supplies & Academics • BISAC: Aviation - Repair & MaintenanceThis book is a single source, concise presentation of what pilots should ...

• Author(s): Paul D. Houle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commerci...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is toda...

• Author(s): Alfred F. Hurley • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Military"This is the best book--the most scholarly, the most judicial, the best written--about the intelligent, attractive,...

• Author(s): C. G. Sweeting • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often na...

• Author(s): Michael Gough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazi...

• Author(s): David Lee Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail ...

• Author(s): Steve Pollock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Jet airliner operations in the United States began in 1958, bringing, it was thought, a new era of fast, high, safe, smo...

• Author(s): Robert M. White | Jack L. Summers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General In 1961, pilot Robert M. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster...

• Author(s): Billy D. Higgins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--bar...

• Author(s): Benjamin J. Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Na...

• Author(s): E. R. Johnson | Lloyd S. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Models Among the world's military air arms, United States Marine Corps Aviation occupies a unique tactical nich...

• Author(s): Paul W. Clark | Laurence A. Lyons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous ...

• Author(s): Chrystopher J. Spicer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. ...

• Author(s): William Patrick Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes a...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Frank Joseph Rowe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extreme cont...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy outpu...

• Author(s): Robert A. Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.The introd...

• Author(s): Rachel Sherwood Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thri...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Katherine M. D. Dunbabin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTheater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and so...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Billy Walker • Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics • Publisher Imprint: Aviation Supplies & Academics • BISAC: Aviation - Piloting & Flight InstructioneBundle: printed book and eBook download code Fly the Wing has be...

• Author(s): Dale Crane • Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics • Publisher Imprint: Aviation Supplies & Academics • BISAC: Testing & MeasurementThe "Inspection Authorization Test Prep" provides Aviation Maintenance Technicians (AM...