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5) Airplanes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What's it like to zoom through the sky in a powerful plane? This book shows readers the mechanics of airplanes, while colorful pictures bring the fly life down to a kid's level.
Author
Publisher
Aleksander Sowa
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Goodnight, goodbye! Bye! We perish! On 9 May 1987, passenger aircraft Il-62M Tadeusz Kosciuszko of LOT Polish Airlines crashed while on approach for the emergency landing near the Okecie airport. The crew lost a fight for life that lasted for 3o minutes. The last message given by the pilot was: - Goodnight, goodbye! Bye! We perish!. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
With riveting facts, figures, quotes, and statistics from the high-flying world of aviation, From Airbus to Zeppelin has it all. D is for Desert Island Discs: just what would Dambuster Guy Gibson have liked on marooned on his desert island? E is for Everest: did you know that two Scotsmen were the first to fly over the magnificent mountain? F is for Faster than the sun: which aircraft was the first to fly faster than the Earth's rotation? This is...
Author
Publisher
Robert Gandt
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking reservations for the first commercial flights to the moon....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The crash of the Alaska Airlines jet into Mount Fairweather on September 4, 1971 has never been explained definitively. A National Transportation Safety Board report hinted that the flight crew acted properly with the incorrect information they were given. However the same NTSB report stated that the cockpit might have acted more responsibly to prevent a crash. The landing at Juneau Municipal Airport was inhibited by steep mountains and inclement...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A Venezuelan Airlines Super Constellation filled with students returning from their studies in the United States crashed after midnight in June 1956. Out of U.S. territorial waters, the airliner plunged into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 32 miles from Asbury Park. All 64 persons on board were killed. A Coast Guard pilot watched the tragedy as it unfolded, beginning when the Venezuelan pilot tried to dump his fuel. For a never explained reason the...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (256 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the beginning of war in the sky! Discover the legendary aircrafts and thrilling aerial battles that marked many historic achievements and advances for pilots, engineers and our military. Through captivating final interviews with some of the men who flew in the Great War, incredible archival film footage and video of restored aircraft still flying 100 years later, this one-of-a-kind collection allows you to experience history's...
14) Harrier
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
A new and boldly original history of the iconic aircraftThe British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter's ability to land vertically the Harrier has played an indispensable role for the RAF and Royal Navy in a number of conflicts, most famously the Falklands War. Jonathan Glancey's biography is a vividly enjoyable...
Author
Publisher
Summersdale
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
Aviation security expert Philip Baum delves into the archives to reveal the stories behind the most astonishing and shocking crimes in aviation history, calling on real-life testimonies from hijackers, crew members, passengers, and politicians. The human stories behind the criminal attacks that have plagued aviation since 1911 are detailed in this authoritative and thrilling account of aviation security history, from the legendary hijacks by left-wing...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A Flying Tiger turboprop flying east missed a runway near Burbank, California on the night of December 15, 1962. The aircraft was carrying four crew members, one passenger and toys it had obtained on a trip to Boston. Visibility was severely impeded by fog. Crashing into a neighborhood of residences and industrial buildings, fires broke out when the aircraft exploded and spilled its fuel haphazardly. Five people were killed on the ground but there...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
A $1 million Eastern Air Line propeller plane with 84 people on board exploded suddenly approximately five minutes after takeoff on February 8, 1965. The causes of the crash involved an incoming Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 as well as scientific principles used regularly among those who fly aircraft. These include spatial perception, spatial separation, and depth perception. My e-book considers the more technical aspects of what caused Flight...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Lake Pontchartrain is a saltwater lake in southeast Louisiana that is approximately 30 miles from end to end. My e-book looks at plane crashes that have occurred in the lake from 1949-2014. The majority of the crashes I have researched are small planes but there are several that I have included of a large size. One of these was an Eastern Air Lines DC-8 and the other was a B-25 Bomber. Only the DC-8 , an Eastern Air Lines flight that carried 58 passengers...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The KLM Constellation that crashed on approach to Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, India killed all 45 persons on board. Among them were 13 American journalists, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners. They worked for Time, Scripps-Howard, Business Week and many more newspapers and publications. The flight arriving from New Delhi was stopping en route to Amsterdam and finally New York. The big airliner was flying into an incessant rain produced by an Indian...
Author
Language
English
Description
It has been 100 years since the first airfield was established in the country town of Yeovil. Since 1915, aircraft have been designed, manufactured and tested at Westland, including the Lysander, used to transport British agents to Europe during the Second World War. In 1948 the company focused solely on helicopters and its aircraft have been sent all over the world since then, used in lifesaving with Air Ambulance and Search and Rescue and deployed...
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