Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891118623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Paul Matt Scale Airplane Drawings Volume 2
Author: Paul Matt Scale Airplane Drawings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891118524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
En samling treplanstegninger af forskellige fly, primært for byggere af modelfly (skalamodeller).
Scale Aircraft Drawings
Author: Air Age PublishingPublisher: Air Age
ISBN: 9780911295023
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume covers markings, structures, engines, weapons, scale drawings, rare photos, specifications, and more. From Albatros to the Wright Flyer including Sopwith, Spad and Fokker. Sftbd., 8 1/2x 11, approx. 150 pgs., 100+ illustrations and drawings.
Aeronca's Golden Age
Author: Alan AbelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781891118425
Category : Aeronca airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Airplanes
Author: Lola M. SchaeferPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736803588
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An introduction to airplanes, discussing how they fly, the main components to a plane, early models, and interesting facts.
Historical Aviation Album
Author: Paul R. MattThe Great Book of World War II Airplanes
Author: Jeffrey L. EthellPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517160244
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The World Book Encyclopedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The Moral Imagination
Author: John Paul LederachPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974758X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
"John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. He has provided consultation, training and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. In this book, Lederach poses the question, "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human community while still living in them?" Peacebuilding, in his view, is both a learned skill and an art. Finding this art, he says, requires a worldview shift. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a creative act-an exercise of what Lederach terms the "moral imagination." This imagination must, however, emerge from and speak to the hard realities of human affairs. The peacebuilder must have one foot in what is and one foot beyond what exists. The book is organized around four guiding stories that point to the moral imagination but are incomplete. Lederach seeks to understand what happened in these individual cases and how they are relevant to large-scale change. His purpose is not to propose a grand new theory. Instead he wishes to stay close to the "messiness" of real processes and change, and to recognize the serendipitous nature of the discoveries and insights that emerge along the way. overwhelmed the equally important creative process. Like most professional peacemakers, Lederach sees his work as a religious vocation. Lederach meditates on his own calling and on the spirituality that moves ordinary people to reject violence and seek reconciliation. Drawing on his twenty-five years of experience in the field he explores the evolution of his understanding of peacebuilding and points the way toward the future of the art." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004011794-d.html.
The Dream Machine
Author: Richard WhittlePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416563199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.