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Downey's Aerospace History - 1947-1999 (Hardcover): Gerald A Blackburn, Aerospace Legacy Foundation Downey's Aerospace History - 1947-1999 (Hardcover)
Gerald A Blackburn, Aerospace Legacy Foundation
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Satellite Basics for Everyone - An Illustrated Guide to Satellites for Non-Technical and Technical People (Hardcover): C Robert... Satellite Basics for Everyone - An Illustrated Guide to Satellites for Non-Technical and Technical People (Hardcover)
C Robert Welti
R573 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Learn about satellites that affect us every day, how they work, and how we can place and keep them on orbit."

"Satellite Basics for Everyone" presents an introduction and overview to satellites. It's written as clearly and understandably as possible for a wide audience. It provides a learning tool for grade school students. High school and college students can use it for helping them decide on career fields. It's for people with curious minds who want to know about satellites that affect their daily lives. And, it provides a training tool and an overview for people who build, operate, and use data collected by satellites.

"Satellite Basics for Everyone" describes satellite missions, orbits, population, closeness, debris, collision risk, builders, owners, operators, launch vehicles, and costs. Focus then turns to describing the orbit, components, environment, and operation of the geostationary communications satellite because it affects our daily lives the most by providing television, radio, commercial business, Internet and telephone services. A description of satellite motion prepares for the included Mission Planning Example of how to place and keep this satellite on orbit and keep the antennas pointing in the right direction to perform its mission.

"The main objective of this book is to stimulate a broad interest in engineering and science."

Domp - Deep Ocean Mining Project (Hardcover): R John Rutten Domp - Deep Ocean Mining Project (Hardcover)
R John Rutten
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In March of 1972, Dr. R. John Rutten was practicing family medicine in Santa Barbara, California, when he was contacted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Before taking up a public sector career, Dr. Rutten had obtained specialized training and experience in diving medicine while operating decompression chambers for the US Navy. It was that expertise that won him the attention of the CIA.

The plan was to secretly raise the Soviet K-129 nuclear-armed submarine that had sunk in 1968. The Hughes Glomar Explorer, the tremendous deep-sea drilling platform that would carry the crew on their journey, was still under construction at the time. Two years after being recruited, in August of 1974, Dr. Rutten and forty-five companions flew a private charter to Hawaii where they boarded the completed Explorer. He was assigned to B-Crew, charged with exploring and recovering the submarine after its miraculous discovery at a depth of 17,000 feet two months earlier.

In this firsthand, historical account, Dr. Rutten recounts his seven weeks with the B-Crew aboard the Hughes Glomar Explorer as they attempt to elude the ever-watchful Soviet trawlers to exhume a priceless relic of Soviet engineering.

Airships R-100 and R-101 (Paperback): Michel Pratt Airships R-100 and R-101 (Paperback)
Michel Pratt
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.29 (1917) (Hardcover): James William 1858-1911 Tutt The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.29 (1917) (Hardcover)
James William 1858-1911 Tutt
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Private-Airplane Passenger Safety - What You Need To Know (Hardcover): John O. Graybill Private-Airplane Passenger Safety - What You Need To Know (Hardcover)
John O. Graybill
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers (Hardcover): Anja Nakarada Pecujlic, Matteo Tugnoli Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers (Hardcover)
Anja Nakarada Pecujlic, Matteo Tugnoli
R5,333 Discovery Miles 53 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A major non-technical challenge of space activities is ensuring productive cooperation, communication, and understanding between the engineers who design the mission and the space lawyers who cover its relevant legal aspects. Though both groups usually attain some level of understanding, it is only achieved after many years of experience in the space industry and through repeated contact with topics relevant to their projects. A basic understanding of the most important legal and technical aspects acquired earlier in their careers can facilitate better cooperation and more efficient development of space projects. Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers is a pivotal reference source that provides vital insights into basic legal and technical topics and challenges that occur while planning and conducting typical space activities. The book uses high-profile space missions as examples and highlights the major technical aspects of these missions and the legal issues applied to these missions. While highlighting topics such as planetary settlements, policy perspectives, and suborbital spaceflight, this publication is ideally designed for lawyers, engineers, academicians, students, and professionals.

Flight For Control (Hardcover): Karlene K Petitt Flight For Control (Hardcover)
Karlene K Petitt
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After a ten-year leave, Kathryn Jacobs has been invited back to the N.T.S.B to investigate a series of unexplained airline crashes. But her husband, Captain Bill Jacobs, has his concerns. While her twin daughters are off at camp, and Bill is actively campaigning for the Pilot Union Presidency, Kathryn secretly begins her investigation. What she learns will shock the nation. Flight For Control is a thriller that reads like a mystery. But to Kathryn, there is no mystery on the condition of the airline industry-it's broken. Planes are crashing. Pensions are lost. Pilots are financially and emotionally bankrupt due to fatigue, furloughs, and loss of seniority. It's time that someone takes control before it's too late-unless it already is. Your life is in your pilot's hands. Do you know who's flying your plane?

Botts' Air-ship - the Problem of Aerial Navigation (Hardcover): Barnet N Botts Botts' Air-ship - the Problem of Aerial Navigation (Hardcover)
Barnet N Botts
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
F-76d & Tf-86d Flight Handbook (Paperback, Facsimile Ed): Schiffer Publishing Ltd F-76d & Tf-86d Flight Handbook (Paperback, Facsimile Ed)
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
R680 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R97 (14%) Out of stock

Facsimile reprint of the orignial flight handbook for the F-86D and TF-86D.

Crew Resource Management (Paperback, 2nd edition): Barbara G. Kanki, Robert L. Helmreich, Jose Anca Crew Resource Management (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Barbara G. Kanki, Robert L. Helmreich, Jose Anca
R2,374 R2,248 Discovery Miles 22 480 Save R126 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The new edition of "Crew Resource Management" continues to focus on CRM in the cockpit, but also emphasizes that the concepts and training applications provide generic guidance and lessons learned for a wide variety of "crews" in the aviation system as well as in the complex and high-risk operations of many non-aviation settings.

Long considered the "bible" in this field, much of the basic style and structure of the previous edition of Crew "Resource Management" is retained in the new edition. Textbooks are often heavily supplemented with or replaced entirely by course packs in advanced courses in the aviation field, as it is essential to provide students with cutting edge information from academic researchers, government agencies (FAA), pilot associations, and technology (Boeing, ALION). This edited textbook offers ideal coverage with first-hand information from each of these perspectives. Case examples, which are particularly important given the dangers inherent in real world aviation scenarios, are liberally supplied. An image collection and test bank make this the only text on the market with ancillary support.

New material includes: international and cultural aspects of CRM; design and implementation of Line-Oriented Flight Training (LOFT); airline applications beyond the cockpit; spaceflight resource management; non-aviation applications; AQP; LOSA; and special issues pertaining to low-cost airline carriers.

The second edition editors offer essential breath of experience in aviation human factors from multiple perspectives (academia, government, and private enterprise) and the contributors have all been chosen as experts in their fields who represent the diversity of the research of activities and organisational experience of CRM.
The only CRM text on the market offering an up-to-date synthesis of primary source materialNew edition thoroughly updated and revised to include major new findings, complete with discussion of the international and cultural aspects of CRM, the design and implementation of LOFTInstructor website with testbank and image collectionLiberal use of case examples

Air Pilot's Manual - Human Performance & Limitations and Operational Procedures, Volume 6 (Paperback, 6th edition):... Air Pilot's Manual - Human Performance & Limitations and Operational Procedures, Volume 6 (Paperback, 6th edition)
Dorothy Saul-Pooley
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.109 (1997) (Hardcover): James William 1858-1911 Tutt The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.109 (1997) (Hardcover)
James William 1858-1911 Tutt
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Uav Aircraft Logbook - A Technical Logbook for Professional and Serious Hobbyist Drone Operators - Log Your Drone Use Like a... Uav Aircraft Logbook - A Technical Logbook for Professional and Serious Hobbyist Drone Operators - Log Your Drone Use Like a Pro! (Hardcover)
Michael L Rampey
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
ShuttlePlane Human Transport (Hardcover): J Ron Lewis ShuttlePlane Human Transport (Hardcover)
J Ron Lewis
R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Pilot 101 - How to Become a Pilot and Achieve Success in Your Aviation Career From A to Z (Hardcover): Howexpert, Lawrence... Pilot 101 - How to Become a Pilot and Achieve Success in Your Aviation Career From A to Z (Hardcover)
Howexpert, Lawrence Jeffrey
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets (Hardcover): Raymond Friedman A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets (Hardcover)
Raymond Friedman
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Both Jet-engine propelled aircraft and long-range rockets were first successfully flown during World War II. This led 10 rapid post-war improvements in both, and within two decades we had supersonic airplanes, communication satellites, and trips to the moon. Unmanned probes to Mars and the outer planets followed, as well as the International Space Station. The technology behind these advances is described, along with short biographies of key pioneers. Problems at high Mach numbers are reviewed. Possible future developments are discussed. Mora technical details, including mathematics, are in an appendix.

Pilots (Hardcover): K Terry Cf Bobby K Terry Cfii, Bobby K. Terry Sr. CFII Pilots (Hardcover)
K Terry Cf Bobby K Terry Cfii, Bobby K. Terry Sr. CFII
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.33 (1921) (Hardcover): James William 1858-1911 Tutt The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.33 (1921) (Hardcover)
James William 1858-1911 Tutt
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Air Pilot's Manual - Aeroplane Technical - Principles of Flight, Aircraft General, Flight Planning & Performance, Volume 4... Air Pilot's Manual - Aeroplane Technical - Principles of Flight, Aircraft General, Flight Planning & Performance, Volume 4 (Paperback, 7th Revised edition)
Dorothy Saul-Pooley, Philip Baxter; Volume editing by Gill Daljeet
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Introduction to the Theory of Radiopolarimetric Navigation Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Kozlov A.I., Logvin A.I.,... Introduction to the Theory of Radiopolarimetric Navigation Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Kozlov A.I., Logvin A.I., Sarychev V.A., Shatrakov Y.G., Zavalishin O.I.
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The book highlights three types of technologies being developed for autonomous solution of navigation problems. These technologies are based on the polarization structure, ultra-broadband and the fluctuation characteristics (slow and fast) of the radiolocation signals. The book presents the problems of intrinsic thermal radio emission polarization and change in radio waves polarization when they are reflected from objects with non-linear properties. The purpose of this book is to develop the foundations for creating autonomous radionavigation systems to provide aviation with navigation systems that will substantially increase its capabilities, specifically acting where satellite technologies do not work. The book is intended for specialists involved in the development and operation of aviation-technical complexes, as well as for specialists of national aviation regulators and ICAO experts dealing with the problems of improving flight safety.

Pierre VS The New York Times - Media Lies and Disinformation in the Brutal Slaughter of 230 On Board TWA Flight 800... Pierre VS The New York Times - Media Lies and Disinformation in the Brutal Slaughter of 230 On Board TWA Flight 800 (Hardcover)
Patrick Harris
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nasa Secrets the Story of the Space Shuttle Vehicles- Launching Satellites (Hardcover): Albert Monroe Nasa Secrets the Story of the Space Shuttle Vehicles- Launching Satellites (Hardcover)
Albert Monroe
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manufacturing Technology for Aerospace Structural Materials (Hardcover): Flake C Campbell Jr Manufacturing Technology for Aerospace Structural Materials (Hardcover)
Flake C Campbell Jr
R3,561 Discovery Miles 35 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The rapidly-expanding aerospace industry is a prime developer and user of advanced metallic and composite materials in its many products. This book concentrates on the manufacturing technology necessary to fabricate and assemble these materials into useful and effective structural components.
Detailed chapters are dedicated to each key metal or alloy used in the industry, including aluminum, magnesium, beryllium, titanium, high strength steels, and superalloys. In addition the book deals with composites, adhesive bonding and presents the essentials of structural assembly.
This book will be an important resource for all those involved in aerospace design and construction, materials science and engineering, as well as for metallurgists and those working in related sectors such as the automotive and mass transport industries.
Flake Campbell Jr has over thirty seven years experience in the aerospace industry and is currently Senior Technical Fellow at the Boeing Phantom Works in Missouri, USA.
* All major aerospace structural materials covered: metals and composites
* Focus on details of manufacture and use
* Author has huge experience in aerospace industry
* A must-have book for materials engineers, design and structural engineers, metallurgical engineers and manufacturers for the aerospace industry

The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.58 (1946) (Hardcover): James William 1858-1911 Tutt The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation; v.58 (1946) (Hardcover)
James William 1858-1911 Tutt
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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