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Book Synopsis The Professor and The Pilots by : Kathy Myers Krogh
Download or read book The Professor and The Pilots written by Kathy Myers Krogh and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of letters offers a vivid glimpse of life in wartime London. C. Roger Myers, a young psychology professor at the University of Toronto, was appointed as advisor to the RAF on methods for pilot selection and training. His research at air bases in the UK and North America, significantly contributed to the reduction of the loss of pilots and planes. Many letters illuminate his struggle with fatigue and loneliness, missing his young family in Canada, while humour and satire shine through others. Myers was an entertaining storyteller and keen observer of daily life in Britain. He describes his frustration with the traditionalist approach of the RAF and the eccentricities of his senior colleague. Myers’ account is enhanced by letters from his wife, Helen, who like many women during wartime, did not expect to sign up to be a single parent.
Book Synopsis The Pilot and the Professor by : Steve Milton
Download or read book The Pilot and the Professor written by Steve Milton and published by Steve Milton. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't want to meet anyone after the crash. My professor doesn't count, right?" After a crash, smooth and handsome airline pilot James swears off love and sex -- until he meets a lumberjack-handsome professor, who's been hurt by a crash of his own. "Can I love a student again?" Professor Claude doesn't want to love again, until a handsome airline pilot steps in to show him the comfort of romance. James and Claude bicker in the classroom, but they heal each other's wounds in love.
Download or read book Flying Free written by Cecilia Aragon and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told that “girls can’t do science” or “women just don’t know how to handle machines.” Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it? Using mathematical techniques to overcome her fear, Cecilia performed at air shows in front of millions of people. She jumped out of airplanes and taught others how to fly. She learned how to fund-raise and earn money to compete at the world level. She worked as a test pilot and contributed to the design of experimental airplanes, crafting curves of metal and fabric that shaped air to lift inanimate objects high above the earth. And best of all, she surprised everyone by overcoming the prejudices people held about her because of her race and her gender. Flying Free is the story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from expectations and rose above her own limits by combining her passion for flying with math and logic in unexpected ways. You don’t have to be a math whiz or a science geek to learn from her story. You just have to want to soar.
Book Synopsis Aircraft Systems for Professional Pilots by : Peter A. Vosbury
Download or read book Aircraft Systems for Professional Pilots written by Peter A. Vosbury and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aircraft Systems For Professional Pilots from Peter Vosbury and William Kohlruss of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University covers all airframe and engine-related systems that are required for an aircraft to be operated effectively, efficiently, and safely by the flight crew. This book is intended for individuals who are learning to fly with their goal being a career as a pilot in corporate, commercial, or military aviation or for the already professional pilot who wants a review of how systems work.A commercial airline pilot instinctively knows that their airplane has a hydraulic system, but they may have forgotten the details of what type of pump is used and how the pump works. This book will provide all those details.The systems discussed cover everything from small airplanes like a Cessna 172, to large commercial airliners like a Boeing 787.
Download or read book Pilot in Command written by Paul A. Craig and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical how-to guide to cockpit decision-making for every pilot, based on FAA-mandated pilot-in-command authority -- and pilot responsibility for flight safety and operations. Includes essential methods for self-retraining, techniques for maintaining awareness, and advice on improving piloting performance.
Download or read book The Last of the Few written by Hans Busch and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the career of the author from his early life in Germany, through his service in the Hitler Youth, on into a pilot's life in the Luftwaffe, culminating in his flying the fabled Messerschmitt 262 in combat - an unforgettable experience for any pilot. Mr. Busch then recounts his career in immigrating to the USA, and his many adventures in becoming a capable and worthy U.S. citizen. His experience with the Me262 continues large in his life. He is called on to lecture America's youth as well as service groups about Germany's feat in creating the world's first combat jet aircraft. He never loses sight of Professor Messerschmitt's greatest creation, and his privilege of flying it into action.
Book Synopsis Aircraft Marshalling Signals for Kids! - Talking to Pilots! - Technology for Kids - Children's Aviation Books by : Professor Gusto
Download or read book Aircraft Marshalling Signals for Kids! - Talking to Pilots! - Technology for Kids - Children's Aviation Books written by Professor Gusto and published by Professor Gusto. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at the window when your plane is about to take off or land. Do you notice those men signaling outside? They are using the aircraft marshalling signals. Each signal corresponds to a certain command that the pilot needs to follow in order to facilitate a smooth take off or landing. Learn about the aircraft marshalling signals in the following pages.
Book Synopsis The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die by : Paul Craig
Download or read book The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die written by Paul Craig and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-01-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literal survival guide for new pilots identifies "the killing zone," the 40-250 flight hours during which unseasoned aviators are likely to commit lethal mistakes. Presents the statistics of how many pilots will die in the zone within a year; calls attention to the eight top pilot killers (such as "VFR into IFR," "Takeoff and Climb"); and maps strategies for avoiding, diverting, correcting, and managing the dangers. Includes a Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise that identifies pilot "types" and how each type can best react to survive the killing zone.
Download or read book Cabin Pressure written by Louwanda Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From African American pilots being asked to carry people’s luggage to patrons refusing drinks from African American flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the “friendly skies.” Author Louwanda Evans draws on provocative interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to examine the emotional labor involved in a business that offers occupational prestige, but also a history of the systemic exclusion of people of color.
Book Synopsis The Pilot's Tale and Other Stories by : Robert Steiner
Download or read book The Pilot's Tale and Other Stories written by Robert Steiner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories, which span a range from realistic fiction to science fiction and fantasy. It includes action stories, stories set in the future and supernatural stories. Although some of the stories are influenced by actual events, all characters are entirely fictional, as are the details of events. The only exception is "The Pilot's Tale ", which is a true story involving the author himself in a dangerous flight situation.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018 by : Vincent Terrace
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the years 1945-2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet, The Middle and Superman. Rarities include proposed shows starring Bela Lugosi, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert and Mae West, along with such casting curiosities as Mona Freeman, not Gale Storm, as Margie in My Little Margie, and John Larkin as Perry Mason long before Raymond Burr played the role.
Book Synopsis On War and Writing by : Samuel Hynes
Download or read book On War and Writing written by Samuel Hynes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers metaphors for those other antagonisms, the private battles of our private lives, our conflicts with one another and with the world, and with ourselves.” Samuel Hynes knows war personally: he served as a Marine Corps pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has spent his life balancing two careers: pilot and professor of literature. Hynes has written a number of major works of literary criticism, as well as a war-memoir, Flights of Passage, and several books about the World Wars. His writing is sharp, lucid, and has provided some of the most expert, detailed, and empathetic accounts of a disappearing generation of fighters and writers. On War and Writing offers for the first time a selection of Hynes’s essays and introductions that explore the traditions of war writing from the twentieth century to the present. Hynes takes as a given that war itself—the battlefield uproar of actual combat—is unimaginable for those who weren’t there, yet we have never been able to turn away from it. We want to know what war is really like: for a soldier on the Somme; a submariner in the Pacific; a bomber pilot over Germany; a tank commander in the Libyan desert. To learn, we turn again and again to the memories of those who were there, and to the imaginations of those who weren’t, but are poets, or filmmakers, or painters, who give us a sense of these experiences that we can’t possibly know. The essays in this book range from the personal (Hynes’s experience working with documentary master Ken Burns, his recollections of his own days as a combat pilot) to the critical (explorations of the works of writers and artists such as Thomas Hardy, E. E. Cummings, and Cecil Day-Lewis). What we ultimately see in On War and Writing is not military history, not the plans of generals, but the feelings of war, as young men expressed them in journals and poems, and old men remembered them in later years—men like Samuel Hynes.
Book Synopsis The Mindblower Androids by : Randall Edward Foss
Download or read book The Mindblower Androids written by Randall Edward Foss and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As androids proliferate, become highly skilled, and become difficult to tell apart from humans, Mytown Mining, Inc. takes full advantage of the situation to secretly rise up from below and give those responsible for top secret plans in the United States Air Force all that it can handle in the remotest western skies. Meanwhile, the three members of the Braun family, Ben, Jenny, and Max, are plucked from their normal routine to participate voluntarily in the top secret plans along with a few others to battle the crooked corporation sometimes underground, but mostly in the air. Ben, the inventor and manufacturer of the Mindblower, a sleek electronic device that boosts memory and enhances mental acuity, disappears on a family hike in the rain forest. When Jenny, his wife and a traveling pharmaceutical sales representative, and Max, his teenage son, try to find him in Jenny’s small plane, they discover the USAF top secret facilities and its latest top secret aircraft and androids. Then as they and their friends continue their search for Ben, they find themselves fighting for their lives and for those humans and androids beside them until they discover much more about what really goes on between the military and the bad mining corporation and the future for both humans and androids. The Mindblower Androids is the second novel in a trilogy by Randall Edward Foss, beginning with The Mindblower Families. The story continues with The Mindblower Orbs, coming soon. Gradually, the recurring characters develop into greater importance as they are thrust deeper into the mysteries behind corporate control over the U.S. government and over energy economics. Mytown Mining, Inc., using android miners instead of human labor to dig deeper in remote regions first on earth and then in space for new energy reserves, must fight off both human and android heroes seeking to curtail its overbearing dominance threatening all human safety and freedom.
Book Synopsis Tony April in The Professor’s Diary by : Jay Barrett
Download or read book Tony April in The Professor’s Diary written by Jay Barrett and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday evening, February 15th, 1898, in Havana Harbor the 6,789-ton second class battleship USS Maine floated peacefully at anchor. One moment later a double explosion ripped her apart, sending her to the bottom along with 260 of her 355 men crew. Only 16 sailors escaped uninjured. Was it an act of war by Spain? Or a calculated “false flag” attack by the United States to provoke a war? Fast forward to 1972. Private Investigator Tony April gets an enigmatic midnight call from wealthy and beautiful Barbara Anderson. Her explorer grandfather kept a diary that may hold the answer. Problem is, he’s buried along with his diary, on a remote jungle mountain in Ecuador. Now everyone wants in. The Rickover Investigation wants to publicize it. Barbara just wants to get her grandfather’s remains home. Sydney Street wants the Incan treasure map. And Tony suddenly wants to have a son. Can everyone get what they wish for?
Book Synopsis Ben Bravo - Space Pilot by : colin owen
Download or read book Ben Bravo - Space Pilot written by colin owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fighter Pilot's Handbook - Magic, Death and Glory in the Golden Age of Flight by : Gordon Thorburn
Download or read book Fighter Pilot's Handbook - Magic, Death and Glory in the Golden Age of Flight written by Gordon Thorburn and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of flight, no one imagined the aeroplane as a weapon of war. Inevitably, the First World War proved the catalyst that was to change the face of battle for ever. But at the war’s outbreak, military aircraft, most of which were slow and stable two-seat biplanes, were held to have only one useful function: reconnaissance.It was not long, however, before pilots had the idea of dropping explosives from their cockpits. Once machine guns began to be fitted to aircraft, two factors immediately became clear: reconnaissance aircraft needed to be defended, and enemy machines had to be attacked and destroyed. So was born the ‘scout’ (as fighter aircraft were known then), to be followed, before long, by the ‘aces’ who flew them.In this wide-ranging and extremely readable study of the fighter pilot’s skills, training and experiences from the early days of flight, and the development of the machines they flew, the author, who has written widely on aerial warfare, takes the reader on a journey from the first flying machines in the late nineteenth century, to the development of the specialised fighter aircraft armed with one or more machine guns, and capable, by the war’s end, of speeds of 140mph and more. Along the way he takes in the development of the devices that allowed a machine gun to fire through the propeller arc, the coming of aerial photography and airborne wireless, parachutes, engine design, test flying and problems of flight, including the dreaded ‘spin’ that killed so may pilots, and the invention of aerial tactics such as the Immelmann Turn.Here, too, are the aces, the pilots who became famous and fêted at home for their exploits, at a time when newspapers were filled with ever-lengthening casualty lists from the Western Front. Some, like Germany’s Manfred von Richthofen - the ‘Red Baron’ - Britain’s James McCudden and Eddie Rickenbacker of the USA, are still well-known today, while others like Raymond Collishaw of the Royal Naval Air Service, France’s René Fonck, and Aleksandr Kazakov of the Imperial Russian Air Service are less prominent.In 1914 it was all new, this business of flying at the enemy. It is a story of creativity, of machines, experiments, turning points, ebb and flow, heroes. Starting from almost nothing, the fighting men tried out their ideas and established the principles that ultimately made aircraft the most important weapon of all.
Download or read book THE PILOT written by H. C Hannah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the attempted hijacking of an airliner en route from Los Angeles to London, one of the passengers, James Ferrar, a brilliant young scientist in possession of a million dollar formula, is brutally murdered.His cousin, Elise Staar, a private pilot, is forced to take the controls, successfully landing the airliner at London Heathrow airport with the guidance of airline pilot Adam Dorivan, from the ground.Were the hijackers responsible for James's murder, or is there a more sinister plot behind his death?After her own life is threatened, Elise joins Adam and a secret team of Special Branch agents to uncover the shocking truth behind James's murder, and a master plan of deception and intrigue is put into action to lure the real killer into a deadly trap.
