How Airports Work

Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Lonely Planet Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781787012929
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Airports Work written by Clive Gifford and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does luggage go after check in? What happens in the control tower? How do planes actually fly? This interactive, lift-the-flap book takes you behind-the-scenes to uncover the hidden secrets of the airport - from a peek inside the cockpit to the hustle and bustle of departures. In this follow-up to How Cities Work, we explore the earliest airports through to today's giant transport hubs and what airports could look like in the future. Packed with amazing facts and illustrations from James Gulliver Hancock, it'll surprise and delight readers young and old, ensuring they never look at air travel in the same way again. Created in consultation with Tom Cornell, VP Airspace / Airfields, Americas at Landrum & Brown. Contents include: Airports Through the Ages The Great Get-to-the-Airport Race Find Your Way Round the Airport The Maintenance Hangar In the Terminal Inside an Aircraft The Control Tower Sees All Preparing Planes Ship That Cargo The Incredible Luggage Journey Airports of the Future About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.

Author : Sophie Bordet-Petillon
Publisher : Twirl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ultimate Book of Airplanes and Airports written by Sophie Bordet-Petillon and published by Twirl. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate series is a worldwide success because it offers readers an intriguing close-up view of their subject with lots of opportunity for hands-on interaction with flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! What better subject than airplanes and airports, endlessly fascinating to children of all ages—from the detailed instruments of a Boeing 747 cockpit to the mysterious innards of a baggage carousel, The Ultimate Book of Airports delivers absorbing information and hours of fun. It's the perfect book to prepare young readers for a first flight!

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of an Airport Cooperative Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309077494
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airport Research Needs written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of an Airport Cooperative Research Program and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urges the US Congress to establish a national airport cooperative research program. The committee that produced the report called such a program essential to ensuring airport security, efficiency, safety, and environmental compatibility.

Author : Lisa Brown
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1626727767
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Airport Book written by Lisa Brown and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a family and the youngest member's favorite sock monkey through all the inner and outer workings of an airport. In a book that is as intriguing as it is useful and entertaining, we follow a family on its way through the complexities of a modern-day airport. From checking bags and watching them disappear on the mysterious conveyor belt, to security clearance and a seemingly endless wait at the gate to finally being airborne. But wait! There's more! The youngest family member's sock monkey has gone missing. Follow it at the bottom of the page as it makes a journey as memorable as that of the humans above.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441175210
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Textual Life of Airports written by Christopher Schaberg and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >

Author : Victor Marquez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811333629
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landside | Airside written by Victor Marquez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological system has been challenged by continuously changing paradigms like airports. Think a minute on rail stations; think of how successful are the rail networks of the world in connecting nations, with just minimum security measures. Why aviation and airports are so radically different in this regard? In order to answer those questions the author embarks on a thorough revision of airport history and airport planning that in the end builds up a new theory about how airports are formed from the outset. Within its journey from the early airfield to the newest hubs of today, Dr. Marquez identifies for the first time the Landside–Airside boundary as the single most important feature that shapes an airport. In this sense, his finding challenges the “historical linearity” that, until today, used to explain a century of airports. From both an analytical and theoretical S&TS stance, Dr. Marquez assures that it is only when airports needed to be fully reinvented (LaGuardia, Dulles and Tampa) when they become transparent and we may be able to understand their lack of technological stability.

Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782799621
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airplane Reading written by Christopher Schaberg and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers. At turns irreverent, philosophical, and earnest, each essay is a veritable journey in and of itself. And together, they illuminate the at once strange and ordinary world of flight. Contributors: Lisa Kay Adam • Sarah Allison • Jane Armstrong • Thomas Beller • Ian Bogost • Alicia Catt • Laura Cayouette • Kim Chinquee • Lucy Corin • Douglas R. Dechow • Nicoletta-Laura Dobrescu • Tony D’Souza • Jeani Elbaum • Pia Z. Ehrhardt • Roxane Gay • Thomas Gibbs • Aaron Gilbreath • Anne Gisleson • Anya Groner • Julian Hanna • Rebecca Renee Hess • Susan Hodara • Pam Houston • Harold Jaffe • Chelsey Johnson • Nina Katchadourian • Alethea Kehas • Greg Keeler • Alison Kinney • Anna Leahy • Allyson Goldin Loomis • Jason Harrington • Kevin Haworth • Randy Malamud • Dustin Michael • Ander Monson • Timothy Morton • Peter Olson • Christiana Z. Peppard • Amanda Pleva • Arthur Plotnik • Neal Pollack • Connie Porter • Stephen Rea • Hugo Reinert • Jack Saux • Roger Sedarat • Nicole Sheets • Stewart Sinclair • Hal Sirowitz • Jess Stoner • Anca L. Szilágyi • Priscila Uppal • Matthew Vollmer • Joanna Walsh • Tarn Wilson

Author : Hugh Pearman
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856693562
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airports written by Hugh Pearman and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their emergence at the start of the 20th century, airports have become one of the most distinctive and important of architectural building types. Often used to symbolize progress, freedom and trade, they offer architects the chance to design on a grand scale. At the beginning of the 21st century, airports are experiencing a new and exciting renaissance as they adapt and evolve into a new type of building; one that is complete, adaptable and catering to a new range of demands. As passengers are held in airports far longer than they used to be, they have also now become destinations in their own right. Airports celebrates the most important airport designs in the world. Beginning with an exploration of the first structures of aviation, and early designs such as the Berlin Tempelhof, the book explores the key airports of the century up to the present day, including Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in New York, Renzo Piano's Kansai Airport and Norman Foster's Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong.

Author : Mark B. Salter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816650144
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics at the Airport written by Mark B. Salter and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies--from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to "no-fly lists" and the privatization of border control--now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers.

Author : Anne Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136385908
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Airports written by Anne Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching management topics from a strategic and commercial perspective rather than from an operational and technical angle, Managing Airports, second edition, provides an innovative insight into the processes behind running a successful airport. It contains examples and case studies from airports all over the world to aid understanding of the key topic areas and to place them in a practical context. The book: * tackles the key airport management issues related to economic performance, marketing and service provision within the context of the industry's wider development * systematically considers the impact that airports have on the surrounding community, from both an environmental and economic viewpoint * analyses the contemporary trends towards privatization and globalization that are fundamentally changing the nature of the industry Accessible and up-to-date, Managing Airports second edition, is ideal for students, lecturers and researchers of transport and tourism, and practitioners within the air transport industry. Airport case studies include those from BAA, Vienna, Aer Rianta, Amsterdam, Australia and the USA.