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Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Aircraft: general interest
U.S. aircraft parts figure prominently in U.S. competitiveness in
global aerospace trade. In contrast to other aerospace sectors, job
creation at small and medium enterprises can especially benefit
from increased exports of aircraft parts. This book provides
commentary on changing market dynamics. It helps inform U.S.
suppliers of aerospace products of what the U.S. Department of
Commerces International Trade Administration (ITA) considers to be
leading markets for exports of U.S. aircraft parts. Top markets for
future growth in U.S. aircraft parts exports are generally those
that are leading exports markets overall for U.S. products (e.g.,
large European economies, Japan, China and Singapore).
There has not been an in-depth history of the Luftwaffe published
for many years and and this scholarly one-volume survey of the
history of the Luftwaffe will become the leading reference work on
the subject. The author is a well-respected military, aviation and
naval historian, who has been researching this subject for many
years in order to bring the latest information on and analysis of
the Luftwaffe together in this work of reference. The book covers
the history, campaigns, strategies, commanders and personalities of
the Luftwaffe in depth as well as looking at the aircraft, although
it does not cover aircraft types in detail. It covers the following
specific areas: the prewar development of the Luftwaffe from its
beginnings in the early 1930s, the attack on Poland, 1939, the
campaigns in the West, 1940, the Battle of Britain, the
Mediterranean and North African campaigns up to 1942/3 and the
Eastern Front to Stalingrad, the Eastern Front to the end of the
war, the defence of the Reich, the war against Allied shipping and
the last days of the war. This history of the Luftwaffe gives a
fresh and detailed insight into the dramatic rise and fall of one
the world's most formidable air forces. Alongside the detailed
analysis of campaigns and strategies, the role of significant
individuals in shaping the Luftwaffe's destiny is also followed so
that human side of the story is given due prominence in this
history.
Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all
the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to
baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between,
Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial
aviation to discover "the nature of flight." For Schaberg this
means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in
unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit from
sliding doors, to jet bridge, to lavatory. It is an ongoing,
swarming ecosystem that unfolds each day as we fly, get stranded,
and arrive at our destinations. Airportness turns out to be more
than just architecture and design elements-rather, it is all the
rumble and buzz of flight, the tedium of travel as well as the
feelings of uplift.
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