Author: David Blatner
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: flying, airplanes, wondered, everything, book
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802776914
ISBN-13: 9780802776914
Whether you fear, thrill at, or, like many, have never bothered to stop and think about the wonder of commercial flight, The Flying Book will inform, surprise, reassure, and entertain. David Blatner takes readers from the cockpit to the runway, the control tower, the baggage and security systems, the airplane manufacturing plant, and beyond, explaining the many factors that make airline travel possible. There are stops along the way to examine airplane maintenance, pilot training, the effects of weather, safety statistics, tips for staying healthy, oddball aviation inventions such as the air c
Author: Henry Steve
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Pre
Keywords: flying, second, world, war, discs, german, saucers, guide, hitler
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1931882134
ISBN-13: 9781931882132
Learn why the Schriever-Habermohl project was actually two projects and read the written statement of a German test pilot who actually flew one of these saucers; about the Leduc engine, the key to Dr Miethes saucer designs; how US government officials kept the truth about foo fighters hidden for almost sixty years and how they were finally forced to come clean about the German origin of foo fighters. Learn of the Peenemunde saucer project and how it was slated to go atomic. Read the testimony of a German eyewitness who saw magnetic discs. Read the US governments own reports on German field pro
Author: Joey Ya
Publisher: JY Books Sdn Bhd
Keywords: shui, feng, stars, flying, introduction, kong, xuan
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 9833332536
ISBN-13: 9789833332533
Many books have been written on the subject of Flying Stars, a Classical Feng Shui sub-system popular amongst Feng Shui practitioners in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. In Xuan Kong Flying Stars Feng Shui, the first book in the Xuan Kong Feng Shui series, renowned Chinese Metaphysics master trainer and consultant Joey Yap shows you how to apply Xuan Kong Flying Stars in the course of just eight chapters. Many Flying Stars books are heavy on theory or are orientated on giving the reader the technical skills required to plot a Flying Stars chart. Some books advocate the use of objects as cures o
Author: Robert P. Mark
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: flying, joy
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0830644326
ISBN-13: 9780830644322
Whether you’re thinking about taking flying lessons or already are a student, this refreshing guide focuses on everything you need to know about becoming a pilot. Find out how to choose a flight instructor who’s right for you. Learn what type of aircraft you want to fly. Get the facts on medical and FAA requirements, radio communications, pilot ratings, partnerships and clubs, aviation organizations, and more.
Author: Bob Hoover
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: flying, forever
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 067153761X
ISBN-13: 9780671537616
A barnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, and aerobatics artist shares his personal story, describing the spectacular stunts and death-defying exploits that contributed to his legendary status. Reprint. K. "
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: solo, flying
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0547076525
ISBN-13: 9780547076522
A sixth grade class is left unsupervised for an entire school day...will they be able to make it until two p.m.? When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everthing begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy
Author: Brian Calvert
Publisher: Crowood
Keywords: concorde, flying
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-08-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1840373520
ISBN-13: 9781840373523
This study of the famed supersonic commercial transport examines the history, design production and service of the Concorde, from the initial planning stages to the aircraft’s first flight in 1975 and the tragic accident in France in July 2000. The story begins with a brief background of supersonic flight and a look at plans dating as far back as the 1950s for a commercial SST. The story of how the eventual Anglo-French collaborative adventure took root despite political differences is accompanied by a complete design and testing history, complete technical specifications and more than 1
