The Flying Spanner

Author : Peter Ellis Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467879149
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flying Spanner written by Peter Ellis Brown and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written by an aircraft engineer to give you an insight into his sixty years as a maintenance man, inspecting, rectifying, and certifying many types of aircraft all over the world, and as a Licensed Engineer for forty-four years. The book takes you through his five years in the Royal Air Force, as an engine mechanic on Merlin engines as fitted to the Avro Lincoln. During his service he saw action in Egypt (Canal Zone) also in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. For these he received two campaign medals. Then into civilian life, working with some of the major companies in the UK but mainly with the freight airlines, one being Air Charter of London (a Freddie Laker company), which included an airline as well as aircraft maintenance. He was engaged on a prototype twin-engined small airliner, The Accountant (not too successful). From there to an engine fitter on DC4, Bristol 170, Avro Tudor aircraft, and many more. He was also a 'flying spanner' on the DC4s flying between Southend airport in England and Adelaide in Australia, still working for Laker. The author gained his aircraft maintenance licence in 1967, which is still valid as of 2012. Over the years he has been involved with innumerable aircraft, from the very small to the very large, including the Russian-built Antonov AN 124, Boeing B17 Flying Fortress, Spitfire, and P51 Mustang. His work has taken him all over the world including North and South America, Australia, Russia, Africa, and the Far East, as a fixer of unserviceable aircraft, and also as engineering auditor mainly for oil companies involved in the oil spill control world. Over the last thirty years he has been the chief engineer on the only airworthy B17 flying outside the United States, in addition to maintaining many War Birds during that time.

Author : Gerry Davis
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN 13 : 1861513127
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on the Ground written by Gerry Davis and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿ After a harsh initial training as a Boy Entrant at RAF Cosford in the 1950s, Gerry Davis went on to serve 15 years in the RAF, mainly on Air Movements, before joining ?Civvy Street? and spending the rest of his working life in a demanding civilian post at Bristol Airport, when he also joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve and served as Training Officer. His account of the adventures of a career spanning more than 44 years covers a wide range of experiences, from the amusing to the astonishing. A fascinating glimpse of the flying business from the inside.

Author : Allen Murray
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595247296
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skytrucker written by Allen Murray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air travel is an almost essential part of everyday life. A significant proportion of travelers are curious about what is actually happening on the flight deck. This book, based on forty years of personal experiences, takes the reader into the cockpit. Written in a humorous style, it relates incidents, accidents and some romantic attachments. The narrative includes the transport of a complete circus, a period spent flying for an African mining company, a brush with Nigerian authorities and a glimpse of the beginnings of the Package Holiday business.

Author : Jim Leary
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1837730261
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Footmarks written by Jim Leary and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS 'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS 'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG ' A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK PAPERS 'I loved this book' FRANCIS PRYOR On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archaeologists have in fact always found evidence for humanity's irrepressible restlessness. Now, latest developments in science and archaeology are transforming this evidence and overturning how we understand the past movement of humankind. In this book, archaeologist Jim Leary traces the past 3.5 million years to reveal how people have always been moving, how travel has historically been enforced (or prohibited) by people with power, and how our forebears showed incredible bravery and ingenuity to journey across continents and oceans. With Leary to show the way, you'll follow the footsteps of early hunter-gatherers preserved in mud, and tread ancient trackways hollowed by feet over time. Passing drovers, wayfarers and pilgrims, you'll see who got to move, and how people moved. And you'll go on long-distance journeys and migrations to see how movement has shaped our world.

Author : Phillip Mann
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114894
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Families written by Phillip Mann and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vengeance of the oppressed... Pawl Paxwax was now Master of the eleven human families who rule the galaxy, and free to marry his loved one, the remarkable Laurel Beltane. But Pawl's happiness was to be short-lived. The many oppressed alien species who paid dearly for humanity's triumph were about to rise up in bloody retribution - with Pawl as their unwitting instrument. The Fall Families is the epic sequel to Master of Paxwax, an extraordinary interstellar revenge tragedy played out against an immense and powerfully imagined canvas of the far future.

Author : C. W. Bryde
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Chart House to Bush Hut written by C. W. Bryde and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "From Chart House to Bush Hut" (Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush) by C. W. Bryde. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Liam Bracken
Publisher : ENC Press
ISBN 13 : 0972832181
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exit Only written by Liam Bracken and published by ENC Press. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful, multihued novel of Saudi Arabia as it¿s seen through the eyes of expatriates of various origins and social standings who have one thing in common: they are all leaving it forever, on the same plane hurtling toward its destiny.

Author : Chrystopher J. Spicer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476665311
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller written by Chrystopher J. Spicer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Australia (as co-pilot with her close friend Captain Bill Lancaster), she was also the first woman to fly more than 8000 miles, to cross the equator in the air and to traverse the Australian continent north to south. Moving to America, Miller was a popular member of a group of female aviators that included Amelia Earhart, Bobby Trout, Pancho Barnes and Louise Thaden. As a competitor in international air races and a charter member of the first organization for women flyers, the Ninety-Nines, she quickly became famous. Her career was interrupted by her involvement in Lancaster's sensational Miami trial for the murder of her lover, Haden Clarke, and by Lancaster's disappearance a few years later while flying across the Sahara desert.

Author : Damien Lewis
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150407646X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Relentless written by Damien Lewis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the top-secret mission to capture the Russian billionaire arms dealer, the Merchant of Death: “This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne” (Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild). Viktor Bout was the world’s foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide—supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft missiles. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was hunted by MI6, INTERPOL, the CIA, the NSA, and more. But the former KGB officer was shielded by a Russian state that partnered in his dark dealings. Evading capture for years, Bout appeared utterly invulnerable. Then elite forces veteran Mike Snow, AKA The Bear, stepped forward. Snow had gotten to know Bout while working as a bush pilot in war-torn Africa. When the Drug Enforcement Agency approached Snow through a secretive, shadow network, they had one question for him: could he ensnare the Merchant of Death? This is the real-life tale of Operation Relentless, the classified mission masterminded by Snow and a team of DEA operatives. Based on first-hand testimonies, it is the thrilling tale of a manhunt that ranges from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of Moscow, from horrific bloodshed and tyranny in Afghanistan to a snatch operation like no other.

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Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221072584
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour Inspection in the Engineering Industry written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: