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Book Synopsis The Helios Disaster by : Linda Boström Knausgård
Download or read book The Helios Disaster written by Linda Boström Knausgård and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Helios Disaster, a modern myth, is a unique, wonderfully written story about the relationship between men and gods, fathers and daughters, heaven and earth. A twelve year-old girl, born out of her father's head like the goddess Athena, ends up in a foster home, starts to speak in tongues and is finally committed to a psychiatric institution. All this time, she dreams of seeing her father again. When they finally find each other, they run away together. Who are the girl and her father? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Book Synopsis The Helios Disaster by : Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
Download or read book The Helios Disaster written by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful portrait of mental illness and modern spin on the myth of Athena portrays the mind of a girl in foster care confined to a small Swedish town.
Book Synopsis Air Crash Investigations: The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 by : Hans Griffioen
Download or read book Air Crash Investigations: The Crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 written by Hans Griffioen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 August 2005, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft departed from Larnaca, Cyprus, for Prague. As the aircraft climbed through 16.000 ft, the Captain contacted the company Operations Centre and reported a Take-off Configuration Warning and an Equipment Cooling System problem. Thereafter, there was no response to radio calls to the aircraft. At 07:21 h, the aircraft was intercepted by two F-16 aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force. They observed the aircraft and reported no external damage. The aircraft continued descending and crashed approximately 33 km northwest of the Athens International Airport. All 121 people on board were killed.
Book Synopsis Welcome to America by : LINDA BOSTROM. KNAUSGAARD
Download or read book Welcome to America written by LINDA BOSTROM. KNAUSGAARD and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child and a young mind in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion, and the love that threatens to tear them apart.
Book Synopsis The Helios Conspiracy by : Jim DeFelice
Download or read book The Helios Conspiracy written by Jim DeFelice and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the murder of the only woman he has ever loved, rogue FBI agent Andy Fisher discovers that the killing is linked to a clean energy project that has been sabotaged as part of a Chinese government plot to steal technology.
Book Synopsis The Crash Detectives by : Christine Negroni
Download or read book The Crash Detectives written by Christine Negroni and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail - leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370 - and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer. In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes the reader inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects each accident, she explores the common themes and, most importantly, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation and aircraft design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive. Tying in aviation science, performance psychology and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors and others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger.
Book Synopsis Investigation of the Helios Prototype Aircraft Mishap - Volume I Mishap Report by : Thomas E. Noll
Download or read book Investigation of the Helios Prototype Aircraft Mishap - Volume I Mishap Report written by Thomas E. Noll and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Helios Prototype vehicle was one of several remotely piloted aircraft funded and developed by NASA under the Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) project, and managed by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). This vehicle was a proof-of-concept, propeller-driven, flying wing built and operated by AeroVironment, Inc. The vehicle consisted of two configurations. One configuration, designated HP01, was designed to operate at extremely high altitudes using batteries and high-efficiency solar cells spread across the upper surface of its 247-foot wingspan. On 13 August 2001, this aircraft configuration reached an altitude of 96,863 feet, a world record for sustained horizontal flight by a winged aircraft. The other configuration, designated HP03, was designed for long-duration flight. The plan was to use the solar cells to power the vehicle's electric motors and subsystems during the day and to use a modified commercial hydrogen–air fuel cell system for use during the night. The vehicle was also equipped with batteries as a backup source of power. The aircraft design used wing dihedral, engine power, elevator control surfaces, and a stability augmentation and control system to provide aerodynamic stability and control. On 26 June 2003, HP03-2 took off at 10:06am local time from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) located on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The aircraft was under the guidance of AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) ground-based mission controllers. At that time the environmental wind conditions appeared to be within an acceptable envelope, and consisted of a wind shadow over and offshore from PMRF, bounded to the north, south, and above by zones of wind shear and turbulence separating this region from the ambient easterly trade-wind flow. However, compared to previous solar-powered flights from PMRF, HP03-2 was subject to longer exposure to the low-level turbulence in the lee of Kauai due to the shallower climb out trajectory. The vehicle's longer exposure to Kauai's lee side turbulence and lower shear line penetration were superposed on what the Board now recognizes as greater airplane sensitivity to turbulence and may have been compounded by the apparent narrow corridor between the shear lines noted by the chase helicopter observer. At 10:22am and 10:24am, the aircraft encountered turbulence and the wing dihedral became much larger than normal and mild pitch oscillations began, but quickly damped out. At about 30 minutes into the flight, the aircraft encountered turbulence and morphed into an unexpected, persistent, high dihedral configuration. As a result of the persistent high dihedral, the aircraft became unstable in a very divergent pitch mode in which the airspeed excursions from the nominal flight speed about doubled every cycle of the oscillation. The aircraft's design airspeed was subsequently exceeded and the resulting high dynamic pressures caused the wing leading edge secondary structure on the outer wing panels to fail and the solar cells and skin on the upper surface of the wing to rip off. The aircraft impacted the ocean within the confines of the PMRF test range and was destroyed. The crash caused no other property damage or any injuries to personnel on the ground. Most of the vehicle structure was recovered except the hydrogen-air fuel cell pod and two of the ten engines, which sank into the ocean. The root causes of the mishap include: Lack of adequate analysis methods led to an inaccurate risk assessment of the effects of configuration changes leading to an inappropriate decision to fly an aircraft configuration highly sensitive to disturbances, and Configuration changes to the aircraft, driven by programmatic and technological constraints, altered the aircraft from a spanloader to a highly point-loaded mass distribution on the same structure significantly reducing design robustness and margins of safety.
Book Synopsis The Crash Detectives by : Christine Negroni
Download or read book The Crash Detectives written by Christine Negroni and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370—and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer. In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni shows, virtually every aspect of modern pilot training, airline operation, and airplane design has been shaped by lessons learned from disaster. Along the way, she also details some miraculous saves, when quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive. Tying in aviation science, performance psychology, and extensive interviews with pilots, engineers, human factors specialists, crash survivors, and others involved in accidents all over the world, The Crash Detectives is an alternately terrifying and inspiring book that might just cure your fear of flying, and will definitely make you a more informed passenger. “Christine Negroni combines her investigative reporting skills with an understanding of the complexities of air accident investigations to bring to life some of history’s most intriguing and heartbreaking cases.” —Bob Woodruff, ABC News
Book Synopsis October Child by : Linda Boström Knausgård
Download or read book October Child written by Linda Boström Knausgård and published by World Editions. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Worlds of Borderlands by : Rick Barba
Download or read book The Worlds of Borderlands written by Rick Barba and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a universe run amok with savage beasts, bloodthirsty bandits, and the biggest bad of all—corporations, in this full-color hardcover encyclopedia of Gearbox’s beloved videogame franchise! The universe of Borderlands is an inhospitable wilderness that spans every biome conceivable. It’s also a land full of opportunity, but only if you have wits, skill, and guns. Lots of guns. Many come to Pandora in search of the Vault in the hopes of finding wealth, fame, or power. This is the definitive guide to the bold people who live there and in the surrounding galaxy, the mercenaries, monsters, and wilds they contend with, and the ridiculous arsenal they employ. Dark Horse Books and Gearbox present The Worlds of Borderlands—a bombastic guide to Pandora, its surrounding planets and the characters who live there. This volume is filled with art and trivia relating to the guns, vehicles, ships, companies, and adventurers of the worlds-spanning universe—and the monstrous fauna who would eat all of them.
Book Synopsis A Life on Our Planet by : Sir David Attenborough
Download or read book A Life on Our Planet written by Sir David Attenborough and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will to do so.
Book Synopsis AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS - THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MH370 - Did Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah prevent a disaster? by : Dirk Jan Barreveld
Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS - THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MH370 - Did Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah prevent a disaster? written by Dirk Jan Barreveld and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 07 March 2014 at 1642 UTC, a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, bound for Beijing departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport with 239 persons on board. It was a Boeing 777-200ER. A half hour in the flight all communication stopped suddenly and the plane changed course to the remote South Indian Ocean. Nothing was heard or seen of the plane until on 1 August 2015 a piece of the wing was found on the Beach of Reunion Island in the Southwest Indian Ocean. The accident is very similar to the crash of Helios Flight 5223 on 13 August 2005. This plane suffered from a sudden leak in the cabin pressure, crew and passengers suffered from hypoxia, three hours later the plane hit a mountain near Athens, Greece. Did Captain Shah of MH370 try to avoid crashing on Beijing? What is the role of the huge American base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in the story?
Download or read book Zodiac written by Romina Russell and published by Razorbill. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a blast strikes the moons of Cancer, killing thousands of citizens, Rhoma Grace must convince twelve worlds to unite as one against Ophiuchus, the exiled thirteenth Guardian of Zodiac legend, who has returned to exact his revenge.
Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Book Synopsis Flight MH370 - The Mystery by : Nigel Cawthorne
Download or read book Flight MH370 - The Mystery written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN A WORLD WHERE WE CAN BE TRACKED BY OUR MOBILE PHONES, CCTV AND SPY SATELLITES, THINGS DO NOT JUST DISAPPEAR. ESPECIALLY NOT A BIG THING LIKE A JUMBO JET. BUT MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FIGHT MH370 DID.A wide-bodied Boeing 777 is so large that you could barely park it on a football field. But soon after a routine takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on the night of 7 March 2014, Flight MH370 disappeared from the radar with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. No one could even be sure where it was last seen. Debris was spotted hundreds, then thousands of miles apart, only to be discounted.For weeks this real-life version of the hit TV show Lost gripped the world. Even Russia's invasion of the Crimea couldn't keep it off the front pages. Were those on board to be found alive on a mysterious tropical island? Had they crashed into the sea? Had the plane been hijacked or brought down by a terrorist bomb?As the story unfolded more mysteries came to light. Who had turned off the plane's tracking systems? And why? Why had there been no 'Mayday' call? And which way was it headed?Why were governments and institutions that had information about Flight MH370 so reluctant to share it? And why did the mobile phones of those on board continue to ring out. Wild theories abounded. Had Flight MH370 been abducted by aliens? Or shot down by the North Koreans?Its route took it nowhere near the Devil's Sea - the Pacific's answer to the Bermuda Triangle. But somehow, in the world of the web, where every email was intercepted, the disappearance of MH370 began to rival the legend of the Marie Celeste.Prolific author Nigel Cawthorne sifts the evidence, weighs the theories and unravels the mystery of Flight MH370.
Book Synopsis The Accident by : Hans Heinrich Ziemann
Download or read book The Accident written by Hans Heinrich Ziemann and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North by : SJÓN
Download or read book The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North written by SJÓN and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best fiction from across the Nordic region, selected and introduced by Sjon - Iceland's internationally renowned writer. This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling diversity of writing from these northern nations. Selected and introduced by Sjon, The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat includes both notable authors and exciting new discoveries. As well as an essential selection of the best contemporary storytelling from the Nordic countries, it's also a fascinating portrait of contemporary life across the region. The perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's evening.
