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'The Practical Pilot' delivers you an easy-to-read, common sense guide for pilots that goes beyond the classroom. This first volume reviews the 'basics' across topics ranging from flying the approach and landing to diverting in flight and what it really means to be the 'Pilot in Command'. This award-winning author has been a qualified flight instructor for more than 30 years and accumulated over 20,000 hours in over 80 aircraft types ranging from two-seat trainers to international airliners. Whether you are yearning to fly, learning to fly or revisiting lessons from long ago, 'The Practical...

'The Practical Pilot' delivers you an easy-to-read, common sense guide for pilots that goes beyond the classroom. This second volume of the successful series reviews topics ranging from passing check rides and in-flight emergencies to flying the go-around and lessons learned from a real forced landing. This award-winning author has been a qualified flight instructor for more than 30 years and accumulated over 20,000 hours in over 80 aircraft types ranging from two-seat trainers to international airliners. Whether you are yearning to fly, learning to fly or revisiting lessons from long ago, ...

This book encourages and inspires young women to explore new opportunities in air and space. Packed with inspiring words, stories, and photographs from International trailblazing women in the worldwide air and space industry.

Contemporary Adult Nonfiction history of women in aviation with International appeal for readers interested in women pilots and female astronaut history. Packed with easy-to-read, true stories of historic International women aviators and female astronauts of the world. Historic female pilots and women astronauts from America, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Russia. Illustrated with over 110 unique photographs of International women aviators and female space history makers in a pictorial format. Filled with powerful and ...

The “Space Age” began in 1957 and since then, we are told, missions have studied all the planets in the Solar System. Most people believe that one of the greatest technological achievements happened in 1969, when Neil Armstrong allegedly walked on the surface of the Moon. The last Apollo mission ended in 1972 and later manned space missions never travelled beyond low earth orbit, despite enormous advances in many technologies. This book considers the works of Dr Paul La Violette and Defence Journalist Nick Cook regarding antigravity research in the aerospace industry and elsewhere. It ...

Come along on an incredible journey where we had no idea where the adventures were. We just let the airplane take us there. The exciting part is, you never know what’s next. As a ferry pilot, you don’t get to choose what airplanes to fly, the destination, or the weather. And you don’t get to choose the life-threatening complications. Sanford has been lucky enough to spend a great deal of his flying career in what we call bush country. The wilderness in the northern region of the United States and Canada is beautiful but non-forgiving. Classroom training is useful, but there is no ...