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Formulas for the Air Navigation Computer is written for pilots and
air navigators at all levels of experience from the novice to the
professional. The book is self-help on how to use the E6-B Air
Navigation Computer. An E6-B Air Navigation Computer is a circular
slide rule with a wind slide on the reverse side. It is dedicated
to performing all calculations related to pre-flight planning and
in-flight air navigation. Every pilot has an E6-B Air Navigation
Computer, which is supplied with a very brief instructional booklet
when the E6-B is purchased. However, the booklet only covers a few
basic formulas, and many more formulas are required for passing the
pilot navigation exams at various levels and, of course, for all
operational flying. Obtaining all these different formulas from
various sources is time consuming, as this author has discovered
over the years. They are not readily available in one book. This is
the reason for writing Formulas for the Air Navigation Computer; it
is a unique collection of air navigation computer formulas. The
formulas are written as they appear when set up on the E6-B Air
Navigation Computer. A full description on how to solve each
formula is included, along with a worked example and also the
methods for using the wind slide to calculate wind triangle and
other navigational problems associated with the wind slide. The
book is easy to follow by the novice pilot and a convenient
reference source for the more experienced pilot. The book is
complete with all the formulas a pilot of any level should need to
know. It is laid out in a simple way with over 122 formulas and
methods, covering Time, Speed & Distance, Air Speed, Altitude
Navigation, VNAV, One-in-Sixty Rule, Wind triangle Calculations,
Wind Finding methods, Fuel Calculations, Pressure Pattern
Navigation and more.
GARY GENTILE'S POPULAR DIVE GUIDE SERIES Over 100 GPS and loran
numbers included As suggested by the title and series name, this
volume covers the most well-known wrecks sunk in the Maryland
portion of the Chesapeake Bay. For each of the wrecks covered, a
statistical sidebar provides basic information such as the dates of
construction and loss, previous names (if any), tonnage and
dimensions, builder and owner (at time of loss), port of registry,
type of vessel and how propelled, cause of sinking, location (GPS
and/or loran coordinates if known), and depth. In most cases, an
historical photograph or illustration of the ship leads the text.
Throughout the book is scattered a selection of additional
photographs. Each volume is full of fascinating narratives of
triumph and tragedy, of heroism and disgrace, of human nature at
its best and its basest. These books are not about wood and steel,
but about flesh and blood, for every shipwreck saga is a human
story. Ships may founder, run aground, burn, collide with other
vessels, or be torpedoed by a German U-boat. In every case,
however, what is emphatically important is what happened to the
people who became victims of casualty: how they survived, how they
died. Also included are descriptions of the wrecks as they appear
on the bottom. At the end of each volume is a bibliography of
suggested reading, and a list of GPS and loran numbers of wrecks in
and adjacent to the area covered. Wrecks covered in Shipwrecks of
the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland Waters are: Alum Chine, American
Mariner (target ship), Benjamin O. Colonna, Columbia, Columbus,
Dragonet (American submarine), Express, Favorite, General J.A.
Dumont, Hannibal, Herbert D. Maxwell, Levin J. Marvel, Mary A.
DeKnight, Medora, Nelly White, New Jersey, S-49 (American
submarine), Three Rivers, Tulip (Civil War gunboat), U-1105 (German
U-boat), Wawaset, and Wilson Small. Also included is a special
section about shipwrecks in Curtis Bay and Mallows Bay.
The Steam Ship City of Milwaukee is a National Historic Landmark as
well as a member of the Historic Naval Ship Association. Built at
the beginning of the Great Depression, the City of Milwaukee
shuttled railcars across Lake Michigan for over fifty years. She is
currently moored in Manistee, Michigan and is open to the public as
a floating museum.
Describes the practical steps to find position on land and at sea
using the sun alone, without electronics. Three different methods
described. Words, photos, diagrams and true anecdotes illustrate
the details. Conversational English is used
We have developed this series of training manuals to assist the
Merchant Mariner in passing the U.S. Coast Guard Licensing
Examinations, from Master 500 GT to 2nd mate Unlimited upon Oceans.
These manuals have been developed to augment our current textbooks
for Mariners and are modular in design incorporating practical
exercises and actual U.S. Coast Guard examination questions with
all questions worked-out. A description of each manual follows:
Volume III: Celestial Navigation Calculations worked-out for Master
500 GT through 2nd Mate Unlimited Upon Oceans Endorsement. Volume
III provides an in-depth understanding of the Celestial Calculation
found on the US Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Examinations through
2nd Mate Unlimited. Chapter 1, The Sailings, Parallel,
Mid-Latitude, Mercator and Great Circle. Chapter 2Time Zone
calculations, (Sunrise and Sunset, Time Tick, Time of Meridian
Transit and Estimated Time of Arrival). Chapter 3, Deviation by
Celestial Observation (Amplitude and Azimuth). Chapter 4, Latitude
Observations (Local Apparent Noon and Latitude by Polaris). Chapter
5, Sight Reduction - Running Fixes (any body). Chapter 6, Star
Identification, and Star and Planet Selection. Chapter 6, Sight
Reduction - Running Fixes (any body. ) Chapter 7, Miscellaneous
Problems (Ho, He and intercept). To see all Marine Navigation
Publications offered by this author click on authors name above.
Last Review and update 04-02-2013
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Reprint des Originals aus 1910 ber Steam Ships.
Nearly 100 years after the most famous maritime disaster in
history, we are assured that we know everything there is to know
about the White Star Liner Titanic and that there is little more to
add to the story. While the basic story is undeniable, the details
of what happened during the evacuation are still debated, plagued
by disinformation, personal politics and our simple lack of
knowledge. This book details the elements that combined to
transform one of humanity's triumphant achievements of engineering
into a devastating encapsulation of overconfidence and other human
failings.
Utilising the inquiry transcripts, and a hundred years worth of
interviews, stories and recollections, the stories of the Titanic
and her controversies can now be related in full. Were the 3rd
class passengers held below while the 1st class escaped? Why was
the iceberg not seen till it was too late? Why were 400 lifeboat
seats wasted? Was valuable time wasted while the crew assessed the
damage? And if there had been enough lifeboats, could everyone have
been saved in the 2 hours and 40 minutes it took for the ship to
sink? These and other questions are explored in this invaluable
work. A review can be found here: http:
//www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/the-titanic-everything-was-against-us-reviewed.html
One of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912,
Lawrence Beesley wrote a successful book about his experience, The
Loss of the SS Titanic (June, 1912), published just nine weeks
after the disaster. He saw two second class women who tried to get
on a lifeboat, who were told to go back to their own deck, and that
their lifeboats were waiting there. At the time of Lifeboat No.
13's launching on the Boat Deck, no women or children were in
immediate sight, but it seemed there was room for more. As a
result, Beesley was ordered to jump into it just before it
launched. He managed to survive a subsequent incident, where
Lifeboat No. 15 nearly came on top of No. 13. A stoker managed to
cut the ropes connecting the boat to the falls at the last minute,
and those in both boats emerged unhurt. Beesley and the rest of the
survivors were picked up by the RMS Carpathia early morning on
April 15. During the filming of A Night to Remember (1958), Beesley
famously gatecrashed the set during the sinking scene, hoping to
'go down with the ship' that time. But he was spotted by the
director, Roy Ward Baker, who vetoed this unscheduled appearance,
due to actors' union rules. These events are parodied in Julian
Barnes' novel A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters, where
Beesley makes a brief appearance as a fictional character. Beesley
was portrayed by actor David Warner in the 1979 dramatisation of
the voyage and sinking, S.O.S. Titanic. He is the grandfather of
New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade.
In the summer of 1912, one man on the Earth was despised as a
thousand-fold murderer. He was Stanley Lord, the Captain of the
freighter Californian. Two courts of inquiries found that his ship
had sat and watched the 'unsinkable' Titanic fire distress rockets
and finally watched her slip under waves, while the Californian's
Captain and sole wireless operator slept, and an impotent bridge
crew pondered that 'a ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for
nothing...it looked like a case of distress.'Failing to impress
their suspicions on Lord, the crew stood and watched the strange
rocket-firer disappear into the night...In accordance with the
basic dictates of maritime law, Lord and his crew should have
responded to the rockets. They didn't. And 1500 people died in the
frigid waters that night. Although Captain Lord was treated as a
pariah and forced to resign from his shipping company, he soon
found employment elsewhere and he prospered. After nearly 100
years, debate still ensues as to whether his ship and the Titanic
were in sight of each other, but attempts to re-open the case to
exonerate the crew of the sleepy tramp Californian in 1965, 1968
and 1990 simply resulted in the original findings of the courts
being largely upheld. Basic questions about the case remain. Why
did the Californian crew not give more impetus to the rockets? Were
they afraid of their Captain? Why did they not wake up the wireless
operator? Why was the crew not prosecuted for negligence? Why do so
many people believe that the Captain was a scapegoat in 1912? Why
is this one issue the most divisive aspect of the whole Titanic
story?And more importantly, could the Californian have saved any of
the victims, or would they have arrived in time simply to pluck a
few half-dead bodies from the water
The best of the Logan Marshall classics have been researched and
edited by authors Bruce M. Caplan and Ken Rossignol and presented
in this new book. The Titanic's secret fire is explained in great
detail. The early days of World War I and the savage sinking of the
Lusitania which caused over 1,000 civilians to die on an unarmed
passenger vessel are brought to life. Great photos of both ships
and the people who survived along with the war posters which
boosted the efforts of the United States, Britain and France to
rally their countries to stand up to the German aggression.
Six stories of survival -- men and women set upon by stormy seas,
starvation, thirst, beasts, ghosts and their own inner demons.
Based on real historical accounts the narratives are filled with
the eerie poetry of island life, the exultant triumph of survival
against all odds. From Florida's Bigfoot called the Skunk Ape to
"the man who would not go bottom" -- a superhero who could not
drown but was vulnerable on land, these stories of castaways will
appeal to readers of all ages.
The story of the clipper ship Clontarf: In her short career the
Clontarf made only two journeys to New Zealand between 1858-1860;
introducing just under 800 emigrants to Canterbury. But before she
slipped beneath the North Atlantic ocean she carried with her the
unfortunate infamy of accumulating the worst human fatality from
illness alone in a single voyage. Using shipboard diaries, official
documentation, shipping lists and the combined information from the
descendants of Clontarf passengers themselves, this is an
informative and in-depth record of the ship and her journeys.
Over many centuries, wars have been lost due to lack of food and
proper supplies for the troops. Without a way to survive, the
troops had to retreat rather than stay and fight. The same need
applied to ships at sea. "New York to Okinawa Sloooooowly" is the
true story of a soldier who served on one of the supply ships that
were vital to the survival of the troops in battle during Wolrd War
II.John Barnes graduated from high school in 1941. While many of
the kids in his class headed off to college, that was not John's
plan. He wanted to join the marines, but when he discovered that
his mother would not sign the papers, he set his sights on the US
Coast Guard, the same service as his favorite cousin, Frank. After
his basic training, he and his shipmates headed out on a journey
that would ultimately take them to Okinawa. Through the severe
storms, typhoons and enemy aircraft attacks, they got the job done
come hell or high water.
Over many centuries, wars have been lost due to lack of food and
proper supplies for the troops. Without a way to survive, the
troops had to retreat rather than stay and fight. The same need
applied to ships at sea. "New York to Okinawa Sloooooowly" is the
true story of a soldier who served on one of the supply ships that
were vital to the survival of the troops in battle during Wolrd War
II.John Barnes graduated from high school in 1941. While many of
the kids in his class headed off to college, that was not John's
plan. He wanted to join the marines, but when he discovered that
his mother would not sign the papers, he set his sights on the US
Coast Guard, the same service as his favorite cousin, Frank. After
his basic training, he and his shipmates headed out on a journey
that would ultimately take them to Okinawa. Through the severe
storms, typhoons and enemy aircraft attacks, they got the job done
come hell or high water.
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