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Microsoft Flight Simulator as a Training Aid: A Guide for Pilots, Instructors, and Virtual Aviators
PC-based simulations, though
touted by many in the
aviation community as
excellent flight training
aids, are not being used to
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Principles of Helicopter Flight
Recently updated, this
comprehensive handbook
explains the aerodynamics of
helicopter flight, as well
as how to perform typical
helicopter maneuvers, unlike
many aviation training
... > full story
Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion (2nd Edition)
In this textbook, the
authors show that a few
fundamental principles can
provide students of
mechanical and aeronautical
... > full story
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach (Aiaa Education Series)
This textbook presents the
process of aircraft
conceptual design as seen in
industry aircraft design
groups. It contains design
... > full story
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Saturn (Apogee Books Space Series)
The complete story of the Saturn V Rocket is presented in this detailed history of each stage of the construction and testing process. From the drawing boards of Boeing, North American Aviation, and ... > read more -
Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition
Aerospace Engineering/Mechanical Engineering The definitive text on rocket propulsion-now completely revised to reflect rapid advancements in the field For more than fifty years, this seminal ... > read more -
The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
Imagine the power, economic and military, that would fall into the hands of the person who figured out how to bypass the ordinary laws of physics, defy gravity, and travel near the speed of light. ... > read more -
Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, ... > read more -
Space Flight
Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first space flight, this beautifully illustrated book about the history of man in space covers every detail of the quest for the final frontier, ... > read more -
Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes
In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both ... > read more -
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
Imagine a version of The Right Stuff whose protagonists are engineers rather than cocky test pilots-turned-astronauts. Author Mike Gray gives a gripping account of the men who led the North American ... > read more -
The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel (Wiley Science Editions)
The Starflight Handbook A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel "The Starflight Handbook is an indispensable compendium of the many and varied methods for traversing the vast interstellar ... > read more -
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an ... > read more -
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of ... > read more
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