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The things that airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and the FAA are not sharing with the public. This audiobook is the result of the author’s doctoral research—Safety Culture, Training, Understanding, Aviation Passion: The Impact on Manual Flight and Operational Performance.

The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. This handbook introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress in their pilot training. Except for the Code of Federal Regulations pertinent to civil aviation, most of the knowledge areas applicable to pilot certification are presented. This handbook is useful to beginning pilots, as well as those pursuing more advanced pilot certificates.

Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the best-selling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond, including daring military raids and survival at sea, and will appeal to fans of Unbroken, The Greatest Generation, and Flyboys.

Master the FAA Part 107 Drone Test with confidence using this streamlined and effective crash course study guide. Designed for aspiring remote pilots, this book focuses exclusively on the essential topics tested on the Part 107 certification exam. With clear explanations, practical examples, and a concise layout, this guide ensures you grasp critical concepts without wasting time on unnecessary fluff. Whether you're a hobbyist looking to go pro or a professional renewing your certification, this resource provides everything you need to succeed.

In Instrument Pilot Checkride Guide, you will find everything you need to know to pass your checkride with flying colors. This comprehensive resource covers key topics such as weather theory, flight planning, aircraft systems, and instrument procedures, as well as offering insights into the oral exam and flight test. Through a structured approach, this book provides clear explanations, expert tips, and common pitfalls to avoid, making it the perfect study companion. What sets this guide apart is its focus on real-world application.

If you find yourself peering up at the sky as a plane roars past, there is a good chance you have caught the aviation bug and are fascinated by anything that flies. The Student Pilot Manual provides the perfect foundation for aspiring pilots to take the next step on their aviation journey. Volume 1 of this series contains three important topics that all pilots must master: Aerodynamics explores the forces pushing and pulling on a plane during a flight. Pilots have plenty of control over some of these forces, but they can suddenly vanish if the plane is not flown correctly, causing it to ...

Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for 33 years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why. Because the basics are largely unchanging, the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the instructor himself.

The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and he went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey “Slicks” and Huey “Gunships”: the former on defense as he flew troops into battle, and the latter on offense as he took the battle to the enemy. Through this book, the author relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to his and other pilots’ day-to-day lives.

Are you thinking about becoming a Private Pilot? Are you interested in general aviation but don't know where to start? This book is for you! This reference manual covers everything you need to know about obtaining a Private Pilot certificate: the requirements, the financial and time commitment, flight progressions through training, and detailed information on the final Checkride.

A definitive new edition of a classic memoir, published in association with the RAF Museum. Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on World War II. It is also an insider's account that sets down in clear, honest detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany's Luftwaffe.

This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising 16 essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from World War I to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign.

Almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-racking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter land after flying a full day and night across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights to Hawaii in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Aviation.

In Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride, the MzeroA team leverages their extensive flight experience and knowledge to guide aspiring pilots through one of the most crucial steps in their aviation journey—the checkride. This book aims to demystify the process, offering strategies and insights that will save you time and reduce stress, ensuring you're fully prepared for the big day.

On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history.

Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?

Can we “train-out” the next aircraft accident while trying to understand the fascination of flight? Why do we yearn to fly? Because the emotions generated by flight, from fascination to fright, from inspiration to isolation are human emotions - we fly because it helps us feel what it is like to be human and to be the unique human that we are. I am an experienced “gold seal” flight instructor and author and I wrote this book both as a way to pass on safety information to current pilots, but also to inspire pilots – never forgetting why we want to fly in the first place. This book ...

Are you preparing for your instrument pilot checkride and feeling overwhelmed? "Pass Your Instrument Pilot Checkride" is your essential companion, designed to answer all your questions and clarify every aspect of the checkride process. In "Pass Your Instrument Pilot Checkride," the MzeroA team leverages their extensive flight experience and knowledge to guide pilots through one of the most crucial steps in their aviation journey—the checkride. This book aims to demystify the process, offering strategies and insights that will save you time and reduce stress, ensuring you're fully prepared.

On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later, the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. It was, and remains, the only open-water ditching of a commercial jet. The subsequent rescue of survivors took nearly three hours and involved the coast guard, navy, and marines.

Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the motorcycle, then turned his eyes toward the skies to become the fastest man aloft. But between the Wrights and Curtiss bloomed a poisonous rivalry and a patent war so powerful that it shaped aviation in its early years and drove one of the three men to his grave.