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NASA-SP-2009-4802. NASA History Series. Edited by Steven J. Dick
and Mark L. Lupisella. Authors with diverse backgrounds in science,
history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of
the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect
terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural
evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the
cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to
the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own
self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and
mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.
This fully revised edition of The Concorde Story, is a complete
history of Concorde, seen through the eyes of former Concorde pilot
Christopher Orlebar. This new edition includes the after-story of
the aircraft, including a list of where surviving Concorde Aircraft
can be viewed around the world. Drawing on his own experience, the
author reveals what it was like to be a Concorde pilot, and gives
us a unique pilot's-eye-view of a typical transatlantic flight,
including details of the training involved and life on the flight
deck. It is from the privileged perspective of an insider that
Christopher Orlebar describes Concorde's 'Grand Finale' and final
flight to Filton, reflecting on the history and achievement of
Concorde and those who worked on her.
This book is one of three inter-connected books related to a
four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Action established in 2015. The Action, called Air Transport and
Regional Development (ATARD), aimed to promote a better
understanding of how the air transport related problems of core
regions and remote regions should be addressed in order to enhance
both economic competitiveness and social cohesion in Europe. This
book focuses on case studies in Europe related to air transport and
regional development. It is divided into four geographical regions
after a general chapter that compares regional air transport
connectivity between remote and central areas in Europe. The first
region is Northern and Western Northern Europe (case studies
related specifically to Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, and
Ireland); the second is Central and Eastern Europe, (Bulgaria,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Poland); the third is Central Western
Europe (Belgium and Switzerland); and finally, the fourth is
Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, and Italy). There is no other
single source publication that currently covers this topic area in
such a comprehensive manner by considering so many countries. The
book aims at becoming a major reference on the topic, drawing from
experienced researchers in the field, covering the diverse
experience and knowledge of the members of the COST Action. The
book will appeal to academics, practitioners, and policymakers who
have a particular interest in acquiring detailed comparative
knowledge and understanding of air transport and regional
development in many different European countries. Together with the
other two books (Air Transport and Regional Development
Methodologies and Air Transport and Regional Development Policies),
it fills a much-needed gap in the literature.
Topology Optimization in Engineering Structure Design explores the
recent advances and applications of topology optimization in
engineering structures design, with a particular focus on aircraft
and aerospace structural systems. To meet the increasingly complex
engineering challenges provided by rapid developments in these
industries, structural optimization techniques have developed in
conjunction with them over the past two decades. The latest methods
and theories to improve mechanical performances and save structural
weight under static, dynamic and thermal loads are summarized and
explained in detail here, in addition to potential applications of
topology optimization techniques such as shape preserving design,
smart structure design and additive manufacturing. These new design
strategies are illustrated by a host of worked examples, which are
inspired by real engineering situations, some of which have been
applied to practical structure design with significant effects.
Written from a forward-looking applied engineering perspective, the
authors not only summarize the latest developments in this field of
structure design but also provide both theoretical knowledge and a
practical guideline. This book should appeal to graduate students,
researchers and engineers, in detailing how to use topology
optimization methods to improve product design.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after
becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine
years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight
brought her extraordinary life to an abrupt and mysterious
end.Based on a decade of archival research through Earhart's
letters, journals, and diaries, and drawing on interviews with the
aviator's friends and relatives, East to the Dawn provides the most
authoritative and richly textured account of both Earhart's
record-setting aviation career and her personal life: her early
years with her grandparents, her experiences as a nurse and social
worker, her famous marriage to publisher George Putnam, and her
secret affair with Gene Vidal, head of the Bureau of Air Commerce.
As the Los Angeles Times raved, East to the Dawn is a "fully
realized portrait of a truly remarkable woman."
UAVs-unmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted aircraft; the
labels vary-are a disruptive technology on par with computers and
smartphones. Present since soon after the dawn of manned aviation,
they have become controversial only in recent times. In the United
States, the mainstream media has painted them with a broad brush as
"drones" with a warlike past, and civil liberties organizations
warn of their impact on individual privacy rights. But a promising
new industry beckons-UAVs can be useful for farming, filmmaking,
law enforcement and sundry other missions. Entrepreneurs and
aerospace manufacturers alike want them freed to fly for commercial
purposes, and the US Congress has answered with a mandate to make
that happen. Caught in the middle is the staid, bureaucratic
Federal Aviation Administration, whose sacred mission is to protect
the safety of America's skies. Enter the Drones cuts through the
hyperbole over UAVs to explain the considerable challenges the FAA
faces.
The RAF's huge delta-wing Vulcan jet nuclear bomber is an enduring
image of the Cold War era. One of the cornerstones of Britain's
nuclear deterrent, in later years it was adapted for conventional
bombing and saw active service in the Falklands War. Avro Vulcan
XH558 was the first Vulcan B2 to enter service with the RAF in July
1960, and the last to fly (with the RAF Vulcan Display Flight in
1992). Since then, determined and extensively publicised efforts
have been made to return XH558 to the air, recently boosted by
financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is hoped that
the Vulcan will return to the sky in early 2006, and commence
airshow appearances. In this full-colour tribute to the Avro
Vulcan, aviation journalist and author Peter R. March discusses its
development and provides a detailed history of XH558 and the
efforts to get it airworthy once more. In some ways when the
restored Vulcan XH558 takes to the skies again in 2006, it will
fill the gap left by the grounding of the last Concorde.
Cobra! is a comprehensive, meticulously researched and fully
documented history of Bell Aircraft Corporation and their piston
engine fighters built during the Great Depression and through World
War II. While the story centers on techincal aspects of the various
fighters, significant attention is also devoted to those key
individuals who conceived, built and flew these innovative designs.
In addition to aircraft development, Cobra! surveys the combat use
of the P-39 and P-63 fighters in the hands of American, French,
Italian, and Soviet pilots. The story continues after World War II
when a number of Bell surplus fighters were successfully modified
for air racing. Birch Matthews is also the author of Wet Wings
& Drop Tanks: Recollection of American Transcontinental Air
Racing 1928-1970, and Mustang: The Racing Thoroughbred(with Dustin
W. Carter). Both books are available from Schiffer Publishing
Ltd.).
"An engaging look into presidential behavior aboard them." --Booklist From Franklin Roosevelt's prop-driven Pan Am to the glimmering blue-and-white jumbo 747 on which George W. Bush travels, the president's plane has captured the public's awe and imagination and is recognized around the world as a symbol of American power. It has emerged as a force in popular culture, appearing in television shows and movies, and is seen regularly on the news as the president gives his famous wave from the top of the stairs. Air Force One is associated with iconic images, such as the instantly recognizable photograph of Lyndon Johnson's swearing-in following John F. Kennedy's assassination. It has transported presidents on historic trips, such as Richard Nixon's pathbreaking China visit and Ronald Reagan's superpower summit meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev. And the plane itself has been the site of significant moments in our nation's history: For example, it hopscotched George W. Bush from one secure location to another in the harrowing hours after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition to making history and serving as an international symbol, Air Force One has evolved into a very special habitat, created by each commander in chief, that functions as an invaluable window on the presidents themselves. Aboard his plane, a president has control over his surroundings without the intrusions, routines, and protocols of the West Wing. As a result, he tends to let his guard down and expose his true nature. Johnson would abuse his staff, for example, whereas Bill Clinton would goof around with them and Nixon would just keep his distance. In this unique history book, the first of its kind, Kenneth T. Walsh, the chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, looks at the personality traits and peccadilloes that our last twelve presidents revealed on the plane, and the way they each established a distinctive mood aboard that was a reflection of themselves and their times. Based on interviews with five living presidents, scores of past and present government officials, and staff and crew members of Air Force One, Walsh's book features countless fascinating -- and often outrageous-stories of life aboard the "flying White House." In addition to such entertaining anecdotes, the book is filled with never -- before-heard revelations, as well as interesting descriptions of the food, the décor, the bedrooms, the medical clinic, and much more -- not to mention extraordinary photos of the presidents and the planes. In short, readers will find here everything they ever wanted to know about Air Force One -- and a behind-the-scenes look at sixty years of American history.
Drones and Journalism explores the increased use of unmanned aerial
vehicles, or drones, by the global media for researching and
newsgathering purposes. Phil Chamberlain examines the technological
development and capabilities of contemporary drone hardware and the
future of drone journalism. He also considers the complex place of
the media's drone use in relation to international laws, as well as
the ethical challenges and issues raised by the practice. Chapters
cover topics including the use of drones in investigative
reporting, in reporting of humanitarian crises, and the use of this
new technology in more mainstream media, like film and TV. The book
also presents exclusive interviews with drone experts and
practitioners and draws on a wide range of disciplines to put the
practice into a historical, political and social context.
Professionals and students of Journalism and Media Studies will
find this an important critical contribution to these fields, as
Phil Chamberlain astutely charts the rise of the reliance on drones
by the media worldwide.
At the height of the Watergate scandal, Delta Flight 723 crashed
into a fog-shrouded seawall at the end of Runway 4R at Logan
Airport in Boston. While this incident and Watergate seemed
unrelated at first, President Richard Nixon and his subordinate's
actions during Watergate interfered with the ability of the
National Transportation Safety Board to properly investigate the
crash. It wasn't until three court cases, a federal investigation,
congressional hearings, as well as a state investigation, when the
true cause of the accident was exposed ten years later. This is
also the story of Air Force Sergeant Leopold Chouinard and his
incredible fight for survival. Chouinard survived the initial
impact of the crash, only to suffer third and fourth degree burns
on the majority of his body. Doctors fought against incredible odds
to try and save Chouinard's life. For 134 days, Leo Chouinard
defied all expectations as his doctors and nurses applied the
latest advancements in burn treatments to save him from a
non-survivable accident. They nearly succeeded. Through interviews
with Chouinard's family, his physicians, and the NTSB's
investigation, comes a story of corruption, determination, and
vindication as well as the answer to what really caused that crash
at Logan airport.
Since his boyhood days watching test pilots roar through the sky
over his Long Island, NY, home, Robert Bryan was fascinated with
flight. Add to that his love of a good story and his vocation as an
Episcopal priest and you have the three great themes of his life.
After his graduation from Yale Divinity School-where he met
Marshall Dodge and the two created the immensely popular
storytelling duo "Bert and I"-Bryan became a minister to the remote
settlements of Quebec's North Shore. In the mid-20th century, the
best way to reach parishioners was by bush plane, so Robert rose to
the task. He went on to spend 50 years as a bush pilot and
minister, logging more than 12,000 hours at the controls. This
endearing memoir traces his life and adventures during that time
and weaves in his experiences performing and recording with Dodge.
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of
aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.
And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet
airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental
bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The
Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the
Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple
of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. How
did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single
aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What
became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And
what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment
when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots
were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures
that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own
memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully
realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence
and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and
the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke,
John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that
we could fly without a second thought.
Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917
and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their
airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more
enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the
future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean
liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and
even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been
scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of
how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of
dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of
four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going
despite the obstacles thrown in their way - until the Navy
deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme
crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth
from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first
time, what really happened can be revealed.
In this new, fully updated edition 2020, expert author Francis
Crosby traces the development of fighters from World War I to the
present day, and highlights actions in which fighters played a
crucial role. The A-Z sections form an illustrated guide to over
170 fighter aircraft. The first covers aircraft from the pioneering
days of air fighting in World War I through to the early jets at
the end of World War II, and the second focuses on the remarkable
advances of post-World War II, mainly jet, aircraft from 1945 to
the present day. Specification boxes for each aircraft provide
information about the plane's country of origin, first flight,
power, armament, size, weight and performance. Also included is a
glossary explaining aviation terms. Illustrated with 600
photographs, this is a key reference book for all aircraft
enthusiasts.
Number 1 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and
use of the Messerschmitt Me 262.
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