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  • 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

    $88.59 USD

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  • Skunk Works

    A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

    by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos ...
    This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

    1957 - The Space Race Begins

    by Michael D'Antonio ...
    A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space mania, Florida boomtowns, and interservice rivalries so fierce that President Dwight Eisenhower had to referee them.When the Soviet Union launched the first orbital satellite, Sputnik I, Americans panicked. The Soviets had nuclear weapons, the Cold War ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Space Shuttle 1981-2011

    Stories from 30 Years of Exploration

    by Sally Ride, Greg Freiherr, T.A. Heppenheimer ...
    Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions by space exploration writers cover the history of the program, technological challenges and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Your Pilot's License, Eighth Edition

    by Jerry A. Eichenberger ...
    TAKE TO THE SKIES WITH THIS FULLY UPDATED, DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR AVIATORS IN TRAINING"An outstanding resource for anyone interested in getting a pilot's license." -- Private PilotWritten in an easy-to-understand style by a certified flight instructor, Your Pilot's License, Eighth Edition is filled with practical advice to help you understand what it takes to learn how to fly an airplane. This ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 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

    $107.00 USD

  • Efficient Airports

    by sbarthelson ...
    This airport efficiency book outlines the author's ideas for reducing the time airline passengers spend on the ground, using for example a faster way to load or unload aircraft. Also covered are faster ways to refuel aircraft and service engines, as well as faster security measures. ... Read more

    $1.75 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interplanetary Travel

    by Yakov Perelman ...
    First published in 1915, a best-seller in the 1920s and long out of print, Interplanetary Travel is a short excursion into space physics. Using conundrums, entertaining examples, and unexpected comparisons, Yakov Perelman dispelled some of the public prejudice that prevailed against celestial mechanics and physics of being too abstract and unable to nourish the mind. He explored, in a witty style, ... Read more

    $3.49 USD

  • Aviation Carbon Footprint: Global Scheduled International Passenger Flights 2012

    by Dave Southgate ...
    This book follows on from my book 'The Carbon Footprint of Aircraft Operations in Australia – 2011' which is also available in the Kobo bookstore.  It contains a detailed breakdown of CO2 emissions from global scheduled international passenger aircraft operations in 2012.  The global footprint is examined at the regional, country, airport and airline level to provide a disaggregated picture of ... Read more

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  • The Birth of NASA

    The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers

    Edited by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Introduction to Surface Engineering

    by P. A. Dearnley ...
    This highly illustrated reference work covers the three principal types of surface technologies that best protect engineering devices and products: diffusion technologies, deposition technologies, and other less commonly acknowledged surface engineering (SE) techniques. Various applications are noted throughout the text and additionally whole chapters are devoted to specific SE applications across ... Read more

    $127.09 USD