Final Approach - Northwest Airlines Flight 650, Tragedy and Triumph - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Final Approach - Northwest Airlines Flight 650, Tragedy and Triumph write by Lyle Prouse. This book was released on 2011-11-29. Final Approach - Northwest Airlines Flight 650, Tragedy and Triumph available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first airline pilot ever arrested and sent to prison for flying under the influence, and fired by his airline and stripped of his FAA licenses, recounts his rise, fall, and rise in the airline industry.
Bird Strike
Bird Strike - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bird Strike write by Michael N. Kalafatas. This book was released on 2015-02-02. Bird Strike available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On a warm and golden afternoon, October 4, 1960, a Lockheed Electra jet turboprop carrying 72 souls took off from Logan Airport. Seconds later, the plane slammed into a flock of 10,000 starlings, and abruptly plummeted into Winthrop Harbor. The collision took 62 lives and gave rise to the largest rescue mobilization in Boston's history, which included civilians in addition to police, firefighters, skindivers, and Navy and Coast Guard air-sea rescue teams. Largely because of the quick action and good seamanship of Winthrop citizens, many of them boys in small boats, ten passengers survived what the Civil Aeronautics Board termed "a non-survivable crash." Using firsthand interviews with survivors of the crash, rescuers, divers, aeronautics experts, and ornithologists, as well as a wide range of primary source material, Kalafatas foregrounds the story of the crash and its aftermath to anchor a broader inquiry into developments in the aeronautics industry, the increase in the number of big birds in the skies of North America, and the increasing danger of "bird strikes." Along the way he looks into interesting historical sidelights such as the creation of Logan Airport, the transformation of Boston's industrial base to new technologies, and the nature of journalistic investigations in the early 1960s. The book is a rare instance when an author can simultaneously write about a fascinating historical event and a clear and present danger today. Kalafatas calls for and itemizes solutions that protect both birds and the traveling public.
Who Owns the Sky?
Who Owns the Sky? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Owns the Sky? write by Stuart Banner. This book was released on 2008-11-30. Who Owns the Sky? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner’s book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.
Classic American Airliners
Classic American Airliners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classic American Airliners write by Bill Yenne. This book was released on 2001. Classic American Airliners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A combination of modern and period photos gives readers an overview of the evolution of American airliners and the heyday of luxury air travel. 100 photos.
Airlines of the Jet Age
Airlines of the Jet Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Airlines of the Jet Age write by R.E.G. Davies. This book was released on 2016-08-24. Airlines of the Jet Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Airlines of the Jet Age provides the first comprehensive history of the world's airlines from the early 1960s to the present day. It begins with an informative introductory chapter on the infancy of flight and the development of air-transport craft used during the First and Second World Wars, and then wings into the "first" Jet Age--the advent of jet airlines. It continues through the "second" Jet Age of wide-bodied aircraft, such as the Boeing 747 and DC-10, and closes with the introduction of the "third" Jet Age, which begins with the giant double-decked Airbus A380. This reference book is an unparalelled reference for aviation buffs, covering airlines around the globe and throughout the modern eras of human flight. The last book written by renowned airline historian R.E.G. Davies, Airlines of the Jet Age is the ultimate resource for information and insight on modern air transport.
