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Book Synopsis Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin by : Eileen A. Bjorkman
Download or read book Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin written by Eileen A. Bjorkman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North Vietnam. With a cloud layer beneath him, he did not know if he was over land--where he would most certainly be captured or killed by the North Vietnamese--or over the Gulf of Tonkin. As he ejected, both navy and air force aircraft were already heading toward him to help. What followed was a dramatic rescue made by pilots and other airmen with little or no training or experience in combat search-and-rescue. Told by former military flight test engineer Eileen A. Bjorkman, this story includes nail-biting descriptions of air combat, flight, and rescue. Bjorkman places Sharp's story in the larger context of the U.S. military's bedrock credo--No Man Left Behind--and calls attention to the more than eighty thousand Americans still missing from conflicts since World War I. She also explores the devastating aftershocks of the Vietnam War as Sharp struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. Woven into this gripping tale is the fascinating history of combat search-and-rescue missions that officially began in World War II. Combining the cockiness and camaraderie of Top Gun with the heroics of Sully, Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin is a riveting tale of combat rescue and an unforgettable story about the U.S. military's commitment to leave no man behind.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses by : Paul Simpson
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses written by Paul Simpson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don’t, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a fast-unfolding tragedy. This extensive collection of compelling real-life accounts of air disasters and near-disasters provides a sobering, alternative history of the just over 105 years that passengers have been travelling by air, from the very earliest fatality to recent calamities. But there are incredible stories of heroism against the odds, too, such as that of Captain Chesley Sullenberger who successfully landed his aircraft with both engines gone on the Hudson River in New York, saving the lives of everyone aboard, and of the American Airlines crew who prevented terrorist Richard Reid from exploding a bomb hidden in his shoe three months after 9/11. The book also details the often ingenious, always painstaking work done by air-accident investigators, while a glossary helps to clarify the occasional, inevitable bits of jargon.
Download or read book Flight 232 written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet.
Book Synopsis Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945 by : Anthony J. Mireles
Download or read book Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945 written by Anthony J. Mireles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the air over the continental United States was a virtual third front. The little-known statistics are alarming: the Army Air Forces lost more than 4,500 aircraft in combat against Japanese army and naval air forces in the war. During the same time, the AAF lost more than 7,100 aircraft in the United States to accidents in training and transportation. Such accidents claimed the lives of more than 15,530 pilots, crewmembers and ground personnel, and the stories of their deaths are largely forgotten. This work chronicles the 6,350 known fatal AAF aircraft accidents that occurred in the continental United States from January 1941 through December 1945. Each crash summary, based on official records, provides details such as crash location and cause, the people involved and the type and number of aircraft. An aircraft serial number index, a record of AAF aircraft still listed as missing, crash statistics and a directory of AAF stations in the United States are included.
Book Synopsis Why Airplanes Crash by : Clinton V. Oster Jr.
Download or read book Why Airplanes Crash written by Clinton V. Oster Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety. It begins by examining the safety record of the United States commuter airline industry in the post-deregulation era characterized by increased emphasis by airlines on cost control and growing pressures on the air traffic control and airport system. The authors go beyond the safety of the scheduled airlines to examine the reasons for accidents in the nonscheduled and general aviation segments of the United States industry, where the bulk of fatalities occur and where airline pilots increasingly receive most of their training and experience. They then turn to an examination of aviation safety throughout the world, first with a detailed comparison of Canadian and American aviation safety, and then with a look at air safety in all regions of the world and the safety performances of all the world's major airlines. Three emerging issues are then examined in greater detail: assessing the margin of safety, worldwide aging of all airline fleets, and terrorism.
Book Synopsis Near Midair Collisions as an Indicator of General Aviation Collision Risk by : H. Paul Shuch
Download or read book Near Midair Collisions as an Indicator of General Aviation Collision Risk written by H. Paul Shuch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conventional wisdom suggests aircraft midair collisions to be random events, governed by the laws of Brownian Motion, and best analyzed by stochastic methods. An alternative hypothesis, that such accidents are deterministic in nature, and that specific factors leading to midair collisions can be identified and mitigated, forms the basis for this Dissertation. A predictive model using case control theory is developed for assessing Risk Index, a criterion measure of midair collision likelihood, for any General Aviation flight, actual or hypothetical. Generating the model requires statistical validation of two independent near midair collision databases, and identifying within them those aircraft, aircrew and airspace characteristics most closely associated with collision risk. Calibration of the model shows reality to fall somewhere between the stochastic and deterministic assumptions. A statistically significant correlation is found between predicted and observed Risk Index for a sizable random sample of flights, with a resulting Coefficient of Determination of 0.25. This suggests that we have identified 25% of the source of variance in midair collision risk, the remaining 75% being random. Therefore we can realistically hope to reduce midair collisions by roughly 25%. Strategies for mitigating the identified causal factors are proposed. Measures to reduce the random, remaining 75% of collision risk are also explored. However, these appear to require a significant overhaul of Air Traffic Control procedures, which must be approached with caution, to guard against the attendant possibility of curtailing capacity in the Air Transportation System."--Page 1-2
Download or read book We Are Going In written by Mike Nelson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author gives an account of the circumstances and people involved in a midair collision on June 30, 1956 over the Grand Canyon between two airliners, a United Air Lines Douglas DC-7 and a TWA Lockheed Constellation.
Book Synopsis Air Crashes and Miracle Landings by : Christopher Bartlett
Download or read book Air Crashes and Miracle Landings written by Christopher Bartlett and published by Openhatch Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic combining several types of aviation disaster book in one. Vividly retells incidents that made headlines at the time, while explaining why they happened and the lessons they provided to make air travel so safe today. Individuals covered include Germany's World War I fighter ace, the Red Baron, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, and Captain Piche who ran out of fuel and managed to glide 80 miles to plunge down safely on a mid-Atlantic island. Includes the Comet disasters that revealed the dangers of metal fatigue, the U.K.'s Kegworth air disaster where the pilots shut down the good engine, the worst-ever aircraft disasters (Tenerife and JL123), the mid-air collision between an airliner full of children and a freighter after which one of the fathers killed the air traffic controller he thought responsible, the supersonic Concorde, 9/11, AA587, the Hudson River ditching, and the mysterious loss of Air France AF447... To avoid repetition, explanations of technical terms and procedures were placed in an appendix, now published separately as "THE FLYING DICTIONARY." Makes the narratives even more interesting and a fascinating read in its own right.
Book Synopsis Aviation Accident Law by : Lee S. Kreindler
Download or read book Aviation Accident Law written by Lee S. Kreindler and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Role of Visible Trails in Mid-air Collision Prevention by : Applied Psychology Corporation
Download or read book The Role of Visible Trails in Mid-air Collision Prevention written by Applied Psychology Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes that portion of a research program on visual mid-air collision avoidance techniques which deals with the use of intentionally generated visible trails. The aim was to determine the effectiveness of such trails as conspicuity aids under daytime VFR conditions. Analytical review of the literature covers detection of various clouds, dusts, smokes and mists, their capability of indicating flight path, and their possible use with information coding techniques. Technical and operational considerations in using trails are also considered. The evidence provides both favorable and unfavorable indications of the merit of trails as aids for lessening the likelihood of collisions. In good weather and with crossing flight paths, detection range is increased. Technical operational disadvantages are: (a) high cost of installation and maintenance; (b) toxicity and other hazards to aircraft and communities; (c) severe weight requirements; and (d) unreliability of the visible signal. These disadvantages are great enough to preclude recommending a requirement that trails be generated for use in preventing mid-air collision.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis FAA's Collision-avoidance Program by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
Download or read book FAA's Collision-avoidance Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aircraft Safety by : Shari Stanford Krause
Download or read book Aircraft Safety written by Shari Stanford Krause and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * This worldwide bestseller utilizes case studies to examine and explain aircraft accidents and incidents * Covers five major problem causes: human factors, weather, mid-air collisions, mechanical failure, runway incursions * NEW TO THIS EDITION: Chapters on Monitoring/Managing Cockpit Behavior and Spatial Disorientation; 27 new case studies; 25% new illustrations * Updated data and statistics throughout
Book Synopsis Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics by : Thomas R. Yechout
Download or read book Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics written by Thomas R. Yechout and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis Near Midair Collisions Between Military and Civilian Aircraft by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
Download or read book Near Midair Collisions Between Military and Civilian Aircraft written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Midair Collisions in U.S. Civil Aviation, 1969-1970 by : United States. National Transportation Safety Board
Download or read book Midair Collisions in U.S. Civil Aviation, 1969-1970 written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Oversight of the Air Traffic Control System by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
Download or read book Oversight of the Air Traffic Control System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Approach written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naval aviation safety review.
