Flying On The Edge

Author : Brian McAllister
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781853108655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying the Edge written by Brian McAllister and published by Airlife Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help pilots at all levels of experience, this book concentrates on the full utilization of an aircraft's safe flight parameters. In particular, it covers the topics of low-speed flight during take-off and landing, and essential performance problems encountered in normal flying.

Author : Gene Manion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781456840570
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on the Edge written by Gene Manion and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was while lurking behind a tree early one freezing winter's morning in 1961, taking a bead with a 30.06 on the doorsill of my former partner, with my crew scrambling to steal back the plane he had stolen from us, that I began to seriously question whether becoming a bush pilot in Newfoundland had been, after all, a good idea." So Gene Manion begins Flying on the Edge, a book that is guaranteed to keep readers engrossed from start to finish.

Author : Bernie Haskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473293802
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on the Edge written by Bernie Haskell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George C. Wilson
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557509253
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying the Edge written by George C. Wilson and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronicle of a year spent with the 100th test-pilot class at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides a look at the challenges and dangers facing naval test pilots in the 1990s.

Author : Matt McLaughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881403605
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying the Knife Edge written by Matt McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Flying the Knife Edge' is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a bush pilot in remote Papua New Guinea in the 1990s. This critically acclaimed memoir chronicles New Zealander Matt McLaughlin's adventures on the knife edge of bush pilot ops in one of the world's most dangerous flying environments. A hair raising tal

Author : Patrick O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802788807
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Flights written by Patrick O'Brien and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to those of the space shuttles.

Author : Donald E. Keyhoe
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178720474X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying With Lindbergh written by Donald E. Keyhoe and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1928, this is a biography of Colonel Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), an aviation pioneer and hero of the times. Nicknamed “Slim,” “Lucky Lindy,” and “The Lone Eagle,” Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) emerged from virtual obscurity in 1927, at the age of 25, as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. He flew the distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) in a single-seat, single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis and became the 19th person to make a Transatlantic flight, the first being the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland in 1919; however, Lindbergh’s flight was almost twice the distance. The record-setting flight took 33 1⁄2 hours and resulted in Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, being awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. Considered one of the most admired figures of his time, author Donald E. Keyhoe presents a clear picture of the life and times of this fascinating man. This work will catapult the reader into a feeling of journeying across the country with Lindbergh himself.

Author : John Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580072151
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrong Stuff written by John Moore and published by . This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photos in this edition are black and white. Author John Moore is the 'cat with nine lives' of the aviation fraternity. From his early days as a Naval Aviation Cadet he had a knack for flying but seemed to be in the neighborhood of disaster. Through two Korean combat tours, Navy test operations, his years as test pilot for North American Aviation, and the space program he was associated with many near and some real catastrophes.

Author : Thom van Dooren
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537441
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight Ways written by Thom van Dooren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Mort D. Mason
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780896585898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying the Alaska Wild written by Mort D. Mason and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine flying through wildly unpredictable weather conditions and over the unforgiving terrain of the Big Empty, with only yourself to rely on in life and death situations. This type of true grit adventure was a common occurrence for Alaska bush pilot Mort Mason, who encountered numerous white-knuckle situations while honing his skill--and his luck--in a profession that only a handful of pilots have had the stamina to endure. Flying the Alaska Wild is a heart-pounding, edge-of-the-chair collection of fascinating stories about the rough-and-tumble life of an Alaska bush pilot--straight from the pilot’s seat. Recounting thirty years of adventures, skilled storyteller Mason presents tales of his own experiences, and also tells the legendary stories of other old-time bush pilots.