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  • Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads

    Series series Aerospace Series
    Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads, Second Edition is an updated new edition offering comprehensive coverage of the main principles of aircraft aeroelasticity and loads. For ease of reference, the book is divided into three parts and begins by reviewing the underlying disciplines of vibrations, aerodynamics, loads and control, and then goes on to describe simplified models to ... Read more

    $107.00 USD

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  • Ace The Technical Pilot Interview 2/E

    Get your career off the ground with this updated guide to acing the technical pilot interview!Written by an experienced airline pilot, Ace the Technical Pilot Interview, Second Edition is filled with more than 1000 questions and answers, many of them all-new. This practical study tool asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers. It's a must-have, one-stop resource for all pilots, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Falling to Earth

    An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon

    As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During the return from the moon to earth he also conducted the first spacewalk in deep space, becoming ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How We'll Live on Mars

    Series series TED Books
    Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • DIY Drone and Quadcopter Projects

    A Collection of Drone-Based Essays, Tutorials, and Projects

    Drones, quadcopters, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): whatever they're called, remotely-controlled aircraft have changed the way we see the world, the way we manage crops, the way we sell real estate, and the way we make war. This book contains tutorials about how to understand what drones can do, and projects about how to make your own flying craft, from some of the earliest practitioners in the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Controlling Pilot Error: Culture, Environment, and CRM (Crew Resource Management)

    by Tony T. Kern ...
    Series series Controlling Pilot Error Series
    Expert authors demonstrate the topic using pilot drawn from an FAA/NASA sponsored database. A post-mortem of real-life, real-pilot accidents are examined to explain what went wrong and why. An action agenda is drawn of preventive techniques pilots can effect to avoid the same risks. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Aircraft Systems

    Mechanical, Electrical, and Avionics Subsystems Integration

    Series Book 52 - Aerospace Series
    This third edition of Aircraft Systems represents a timely update of the Aerospace Series’ successful and widely acclaimed flagship title. Moir and Seabridge present an in-depth study of the general systems of an aircraft – electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, emergency systems and flight control to name but a few - that transform an aircraft shell into a living, functioning and communicating ... Read more

    $117.00 USD

  • The long Way to the Moon

    The Apollo Missions

    It was February 1966. A Saturn V rocket began a suborbital unmanned test flight with the Apollo Command Module for the first time. A Saturn Orbital test flight followed, without the Apollo Spaceship, in July 1966; a further flight with the Apollo Command Module took off in August 1966. The Saturn Rocket Vehicle was developed by the scientists and technicians of the Marshall Space Flight Center ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Airworthiness

    An Introduction to Aircraft Certification

    Airworthiness: An Introduction to Aircraft Certification, Second Edition, offers a practical guide to the regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The discussions include the concepts of flight safety and airworthiness; the ICAO and civil aviation authorities; airworthiness ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • A History of Aerodynamics

    And Its Impact on Flying Machines

    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    From the Foreword: 'John Anderson's book represents a milestone in aviation literature. For the first time aviation enthusiasts - both specialists and popular readers alike - possess an authoritative history of aerodynamic theory. Not only is this study authoritative, it is also highly readable and linked to the actual (and more familiar) story of how the airplane evolved. The book touches on all ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Star Ark

    A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship

    Edited by Rachel Armstrong ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an ‘ecosystems’ view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume take a radical multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human space colonization through the ongoing project Persephone. This book fundamentally challenges ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Stratonauts

    Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Just what does it take to be a stratonaut, soaring to higher and higher altitudes of Earth's atmosphere? Brave men and women have reached extreme heights in balloons, aircraft and rocket ships over the past two centuries, from the first untethered balloon flight to the first flights in the newly defined stratosphere, through to the present flights that continue to set new records. This book ... Read more

    $40.49 USD