Author: Barbara WalshPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780954735937
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hubert Latham, 1883-1912
Author: Barbara WalshPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780954735937
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Aeroplane
Author: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199600929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A unique anthology of Kafka's stories and other short pieces by prize-winning translator Joyce Crick, with invaluable introduction,notes, and other editorial material by Kafka scholar Ritchie Robertson.
Aeroplane
Author: The Little Book of Kent
Author: Alexander TullochPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750953977
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
The Little Book of Kent is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historic trivia).Alex Tulloch’s new book gathers together a myriad of data on Kent. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise. This is an ideal book to have by your bedside or to while away the hours on a long train journey. And if you like to take part in pub quizzes (or set them) then you will find this book a veritable treasure trove of useful information as well as just fascinating trivia. Who knew, for instance, that Laurel and Hardy cut the ribbon when the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch narrow gauge railway was reopened after the war?
Wings
Author: Tom D CrouchPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The Invention of the Airplane ushered in the modern age. Tom D. Crouch chronicles how conquest of the skies shifted the way people travel, wage war, and perceive the promise of life. From balloons and kites to passenger jets, from stealth fighters to interplanetary rockets, Crouch tells how the enthusiasm of amateurs spawned an industry that now determines the rise and fall of nations. Achievements have been breathtaking, and yet this is not a tale of unalloyed progress. Blind alleys ended in debt and failure; bitter disappointment and stark terror exacted a price for technical progress. In the end, there is no more fascinating cast of characters than those who wrote history in the sky and, in living a dream, forever changed the world. Book jacket.
Death on the Installment Plan
Author: Louis-Ferdinand CélinePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called “creative confessions,” they told of the author’s childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Céline’s influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today’s “black humor.”
Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News
Author: Upon a Trailing Edge
Author: Michael JoyPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784624721
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This is a story of aviation, risk and the heart of the pilot. Four out of five fatal aircraft accidents are due to human error; three out of five to pilot error. This book examines the technical aspects of these issues from the viewpoint of one of the UK's most experienced aviation cardiologists. It spans the end of the Second World War through teaching cardiology in aviation on behalf of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) worldwide, via a history of powered flight, time in the cadet force, a flying scholarship on a Tiger Moth, training to be a doctor, later a cardiologist, and owing a series of aircraft. Michael Joy was appointed as cardiologist to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in 1974 to assist the regulator in the development of standards of cardiological fitness. Error, risk and accident causation are introduced in the context of various fatal accidents. In this stimulating and highly informative autobiography, Michael looks back at his time with the ICAO and CAA, drafting cardiological standards for Europe and worldwide travel to spread the message, including the Khyber pass, an aircraft factory in the Indonesian jungle and the slave island of Goree in Senegal. Safety is no accident and history is its judge.
THE BUNAU-VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL
Author: GABRIEL J. LOIZILLONPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300558407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889. It also asks why Philippe Bunau-Varilla is not recognised by Panamanians as the man who helped their republic to be born - without him, the Panama Canal would have been in Nicaragua.