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Author : Peter W. Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cierva Autogiros written by Peter W. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840335590
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Juan de la Cierva and His Autogiros written by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Richardson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Autogiro Pioneer written by Nicholas Richardson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Autogiro Pioneer' is a vivid account of the varied life and adventures of Jack Richardson (1899-1987). The book is based on his memoirs, which have been edited by his son. In the 1930s he worked for Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the Autogiro (the forerunner of the helicopter), and was the first person to obtain a commercial pilot's licence as an Autogiro pilot. This work involved (among other activities) several hazardous flights across Europe in all kinds of weather. In 1944 he learnt how to fly the new Sikorsky helicopters in the United States, and became the first fully-trained helicopter pilot in the British Army. In his later career with the Army and with Westland Aircraft he helped to develop the military and commercial uses of the helicopter, played a major role in the construction of the Heliport at Battersea, and was Chairman of The Helicopter Association. As a young man he had been a cavalry officer in the Ninth Lancers, and for seven years a successful orange farmer In South Africa. He was a keen racing skier and amateur painter. The book is illustrated with 100 pictures in black and white and in colour.
Author : Gordon J. Leishman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521858601
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics with CD Extra written by Gordon J. Leishman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an internationally recognized teacher and researcher, this book provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft such as tilt rotors and autogiros. The text begins with a unique technical history of helicopter flight, and then covers basic methods of rotor aerodynamic analysis, and related issues associated with the performance of the helicopter and its aerodynamic design. It goes on to cover more advanced topics in helicopter aerodynamics, including airfoil flows, unsteady aerodynamics, dynamic stall, and rotor wakes, and rotor-airframe aerodynamic interactions, with final chapters on autogiros and advanced methods of helicopter aerodynamic analysis. Extensively illustrated throughout, each chapter includes a set of homework problems. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practising engineers, and researchers will welcome this thoroughly revised and updated text on rotating-wing aerodynamics.
Author : J. Gordon Leishman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523967
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics written by J. Gordon Leishman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helicopters are highly capable and useful rotating-wing aircraft with roles that encompass a variety of civilian and military applications. Their usefulness lies in their unique ability to take off and land vertically, to hover stationary relative to the ground, and to fly forward, backward, or sideways. These unique flying qualities, however, come at a high cost including complex aerodynamic problems, significant vibrations, high levels of noise, and relatively large power requirements compared to fixed-wing aircraft. This book, written by an internationally recognized expert, provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft. Every chapter is extensively illustrated and concludes with a bibliography and homework problems. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practising engineers, and researchers will welcome this thorough and up-to-date text on rotating-wing aerodynamics.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book FAA General Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Viscount Weir
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782830898
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Weir Group written by William Viscount Weir and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871 two brothers, George and James Weir, founded the engineering firm of G. & J. Weir, joining the booming range of industry on the west coast of Scotland. At their Cathcart works in Glasgow, the Weirs produced their own groundbreaking inventions. The most notable of these was the celebrated direct-acting feed pump, but all were crucial to the development of steam ships at that time. Today, more than 140 turbulent years later, the Weir Group is almost the last of those once-flourishing companies still to retain its independence and a Scottish base. Over the intervening century, Weir's manufactured pumps and valves for ships' engines around the world, oil pipelines and desalination plants, armaments (in the two world wars) and heavy equipment for power stations. Along the way it was also involved in other activities, including the development of the autogiro (the precursor of the helicopter) and prefabricated housing. Rooted in the inventiveness and determination of the Victorian manufacturing age, Weir's adapted to a changing world, determined always to diversify, win overseas contracts, build partnerships and above all survive. Now, as Lord Smith of Kelvin retires after more than ten years as chairman and passes an impressive legacy - further strengthened by major recent acquisitions - to his successor, Charles Berry, the Weir Group once again has success firmly in its grasp. This fascinating story is told by William Weir, a past chairman and chief executive of the company. Combining personal reminiscence and colourful anecdote with cool analysis of the company's triumphs and occasional failures, this is an unusual company history and an invaluable record of a Scottish engineering legend.
Author : Charles Gablehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Helicopters and Autogiros written by Charles Gablehouse and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Developement of the Autogiro and Rotarywinged Aircraft, Hearings ..., on H.R. 8143 ..., April 26, 1938 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cierva Autogiro Company, Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Download or read book The Autogiro written by Cierva Autogiro Company, Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lori A. Henning
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163747
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Harnessing the Airplane written by Lori A. Henning and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions on incomplete information. Harnessing the Airplane compares how the American and British armies dealt with this unique challenge. A multilayered look at a critical aspect of modern industrial warfare, this book examines the ramifications of technological innovation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed between traditional ground units and emerging air forces. Cavalry officers pondered the potential military uses of airplanes and other new technologies early on, but preferred to test them before embracing and incorporating them in their operations. Cavalrymen cautiously examined airplane capabilities, developed applications and doctrine for joint operations, and in the United States, even tried to develop their own, specially designed craft. Throughout the interwar period, instead of replacing the cavalry, airplanes were used cooperatively with cavalry forces in reconnaissance, security, communication, protection, and pursuit—a collaboration tested in maneuvers and officially blessed in both British and American doctrine. This interdependent relationship changed drastically, however, during the 1930s as aviation priorities and doctrine shifted from tactical support of ground troops toward independent strategic bombardment. Henning shows that the American and British experiences with military aviation differed. The nascent British aviation service made quicker inroads into reconnaissance and scouting, even though the British cavalry was the older institution with more-established traditions. The American cavalry, despite its youth, contested the control of reconnaissance as late as the 1930s, years after similar arguments ended in Britain. Drawing on contemporary government reports, memoirs and journals of service personnel, books, and professional and trade journals and magazines, Harnessing the Airplane is a nuanced account of the cavalry’s response to aviation over time and presents a new perspective on a significant chapter of twentieth-century military history.
Author : Bruce H. Charnov
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Autogiro to Gyroplane written by Bruce H. Charnov and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to tell the fascinating 80-year history of today's gyroplane and its antecedent, the Autogiro. Charnov explains that the near-eclipse of the Autogiro was caused by a potent combination of bad luck, the impact of the Great Depression and World War II and egregious business decisions. Only by understanding the amazing manner in which this aviation technologies has persisted and evolved can one fully understand the basis for its future. In contrast to the fate of the Autogiro, the gyroplane's unfolding story is characterized by successful business models, effective decision making, and the emergence of cutting-edge technology.
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160831515
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Realizing the Dream of Flight written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.
Author : Virginia Parker Dawson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Realizing the Dream of Flight written by Virginia Parker Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Phipp
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624362
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Wessex Aviation Industry written by Mike Phipp and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the story of aviation in Wessex from its earliest beginnings to the modern hi-tech industry that exists today.
Author : Donald M. Pattillo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677212
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The General Aviation Industry in America written by Donald M. Pattillo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industry known as "general aviation"--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial airlines--dates from the early days of powered flight. As technology advanced, making possible smaller aircraft that could be owned and operated by civilians, manufacturers emerged to a serve a growing market. Increasingly this meant business flying, as companies used aircraft in a variety of roles. The industry struggled during the Great Depression but development continued; small aircraft manufacturers became vital to the massive military production effort during World War II. After the war, rapid technological advancement and a robust, prosperous middle class were expected to result in a democratized civil aviation industry. For many reasons this was never realized, even as general aviation roles and aircraft capabilities expanded. Despite its many reverses and struggles, entrepreneurship has remained the driving factor of the industry.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book NASA Technical Translation written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
