100-octane

The story behind the fuel

by Peter Varey

<p>A Pole, a Russian and an Frenchman were the key contributors to 100-octane gasoline. This is the fuel which powered the new high-compression engines of US fighter aircraft from 1937 and later the Merlin engines which helped the RAF's ...

ISBN: 9780953844043

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$18.15

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1939 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs

by L. Archard

<p>On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. With political agreements in place to come to Poland's aid, Britain and France both declared war on Germany within two days. It was the start of a conflict that would erupt over every continent; it

ISBN: 9781445622576

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$25.06

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1940: The Battles to Stop Hitler

by Mitch Peeke

<SPAN STYLE= "font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';color: #323232;" >The epic story of 1940 is not confined to the great air battle over England that summer; The Battle of Britain. Whilst that battle was indeed a major turning point in the course of ...

ISBN: 9781473858107

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$14.78

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1943 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs

by L. Archard

1943 saw the tide of war change fully in the Allies’ favour. The Axis powers were in retreat on most fronts. North Africa was conquered and this gave the Allies the ability to fly one way over Europe, reaching parts once too far from Allied ...

ISBN: 9781445622712

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$25.06

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1944 The Second World War in the Air in Photographs

by L. Archard

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. It was the start of a conflict that would erupt over every continent, see the deaths of tens of millions of people, much of central Europe destroyed, the development of jets, ballistic missiles and ...

ISBN: 9781445622743

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$25.06

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50 Airliners that Changed Flying

by Matt Falcus

<p>The invention of the aeroplane was the dawn of a new way of travelling. Its potential was quickly realised, and aircraft were developed to carry first mail and then passengers, over distances that would have previously taken many hours or ...

ISBN: 9780750988766

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$9.99

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A Passion for Speed

The Daring Life of Mildred, The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce

by Paul Smiddy

<p>THE HONOURABLE MRS VICTOR BRUCE: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman – remarkable achievements for a woman of the 1920s and ’30s. Mildred Bruce enjoyed a privileged background that allowed ...

ISBN: 9780750985307

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$9.99

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A Spitfire Girl

One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story

by Mary Ellis, As Told To Melody Foreman

We visualize dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft – and that person was ...

ISBN: 9781473895386

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$34.13

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Aces, Airmen and The Biggin Hill Wing

A Collective Memoir 1941 - 1942

by Jon E C Tan

During the Second World War, RAF Biggin Hill was one of Fighter Command’s premier stations. Throughout the Battle of Britain and beyond, it became a hotbed of talent and expertise, home to many of the Command’s most notable and successful ...

ISBN: 9781473881716

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$30.69

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Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance

by Antonio Filippone

<p>This book discusses aircraft flight performance, focusing on commercial aircraft but also considering examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight ...

ISBN: 9781139794176

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$163.90

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Advances in Aviation Psychology

Volume 1

by Professor Sidney Dekker, Dr R Key Dismukes & Captain Daniel E Maurino

<p>Aviation remains one of the most active and challenging domains for human factors and applied psychology. Since 1981, the biennial International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP) has been convened for the purposes of (a) presenting the ...

ISBN: 9781472438423

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$150.77

$135.69

Aeronautical Chart User's Guide

by Federal Aviation Administration

<p>The updated 11th edition of the <em>Aeronautical Chart User’s Guide</em> by the FAA is a great reference for novice pilots and professionals alike. Printed in full color with detailed examples, this book provides all the information students ...

ISBN: 9781510725539

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$14.99

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Air Cargo in Mainland China and Hong Kong

by Waiman Cheung, Lawrence C. Leung, George W.L. Hui & others

<p>Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy. Accession to the WTO will further stimulate trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), intensifying

ISBN: 9781351960014

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$82.38

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Air Rage

The Underestimated Safety Risk

by Angela Dahlberg

<p>This book introduces a new Human Factors concept that includes the air passenger as an integral part of the aviation system. It develops a revised Reason Model on Human Error that applies its principles to the prevention of passenger ...

ISBN: 9781351959988

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$78.46

$70.61

Air Traffic Control Career Prep (PDF eBook): A comprehensive guide to one of the best-paying Federal government careers, including test preparation fo

by Mattson, Patrick

This is the PDF eBook edition of this title.This third edition of Air Traffic Control Career Prep is a comprehensive guide to one of the best-paying Federal government careers, including the test preparation for the initial Air Traffic Control ...

ISBN: 9781619541665

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$58.96

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Air Traffic Control: Human Performance Factors

by Anne R. Isaac & Bert Ruitenberg

<p>From the Foreword by Captain Daniel Maurino, ICAO: '...Air Traffic Control...will remain a technology-intensive system. People (controllers) must harmoniously interact with technology to contribute to achieve the aviation system’s goals of ...

ISBN: 9781351959957

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$78.46

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Air Travel for Wheelchair Users

by Cory Lee

<p>Are you a wheelchair user and want to learn about the process of traveling by plane before you take off for the first time? Or perhaps you&apos;re a frequent flier and would just like to learn how to make the process easier for future ...

ISBN: 9781310504181

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$7.20

Airbus A380 2005 to Present

Owners Workshop Manual

by Robert Wicks

The Airbus A380 is the world's most recognised and most talked about airliner since the Boeing 747 and Concorde appeared in the skies in the late 1960s. Designed to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large-aircraft market, it made its first ...

ISBN: 9781785211089

Binding: Hardback

$44.95

Aircraft

by David Pascoe

<p>In his celebrated manifesto, &quot;Aircraft&quot; (1935), the architect Le Corbusier presented more than 100 photographs celebrating airplanes either in imperious flight or elegantly at rest. Dwelling on the artfully abstracted shapes of ...

ISBN: 9781861894687

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$28.74

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Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports

by Jim Walters & Robert Sumwalt

Fascinating and factual accounts of the world’s most recent and compelling crashes <p>Industry insiders James Walters and Robert Sumwalt, trained aviation accident investigators and commercial airline pilots, offer expert analyses of notable and

ISBN: 9780071810975

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$60.50

$54.44