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Author : Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781602390614
For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Gliding and soaring
ISBN : NYPL:33433024439782
Author : Jeffery P. Sandman,Peter R. Sandman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738540714
To fly as the hawk and eagle has been mankind's dream for centuries. Modern sailplanes make soaring and gliding flight possible, and with them, humans can fly higher, faster, and farther than the greatest of birds, using only an invisible force of nature to stay aloft. The terms soaring and gliding are used interchangeably, and the sport is appealing to pilot and spectator alike. Sailplane enthusiasts have always been explorers, always looking for a more ideal site that will provide the intellectual challenges of soaring as well as the sheer beauty and relaxation the sport can offer. Michigan-based glider pilots and designers found their soaring paradise in the early 1930s when they ventured north to the Sleeping Bear Dunes area. The explorers began to promote the sport to national and international prominence, and many came to make up a veritable who's who of American aeronautics. Over a century after Octave Chanute discovered motorless flight on the Lake Michigan dunes, sailplanes, hang gliders, and paragliders still fill the skies.
Author : Derek Piggott
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015002077579
Author : Clarence D. Cone (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Atmospheric temperature
ISBN : UIUC:30112106773234
Author : Ernst Heinrich Hirschel,Horst Prem,Gero Madelung
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 354040645X
"This English-language edition of Aeronautical Research in Germany recounts and celebrates the considerable contributions made in Germany to the invention and ongoing development of aircraft. [snip] It covers in fascinating detail the milestones of the first 100 years of aeronautical research in Germany, within the broader context of the scientific, political, and industrial milieus."--Publisher description
Author : J. Alswang
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 086486535X
This title is a collection of information on probably every sport that has been played in South Africa. It brings us the rules, the method of play, the specifications and layout of playing area of a multitude of sport.
Author : Steve Longland
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847974440
Gliding is for everyone who has ever dreamt of riding the air currents with the view stretching to the horizon, and with barely a sound to disturb the moment. Written by an experienced instructor, this book guides you through the first steps to realising that dream, and goes on to explore the many opportunities offered by this compelling and existing sport.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : LOC:0014161759A
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045235988
Author : United States. Work Projects Administration,United States. Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015023929295
Author : United States. Flight Standards Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : UOM:39015000453756
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782007746
Military gliders came of age in World War II, when glider assault infantry were the forerunners of today's helicopter-delivered airmobile troops. From the light pre-war sports and training machines, several nations developed troop-carrying gliders capable of getting a whole squad or more of infantry, with heavy weapons, onto the ground quickly, with the equipment that paratroopers simply could not carry. They made up at least one-third of the strength of US, British, and German airborne divisions in major battles, and they also carried out several daring coup de main raids and spearhead operations. However, the dangers were extreme, the techniques were difficult, the losses were heavy (particularly during night operations), and the day of the glider assault was relatively brief. This book explains the development and organization of glider troops, their mounts, and the air squadrons formed to tow them, the steep and costly learning-curve and the tactics that such troops learned to employ once they arrived on the battlefield.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Meteorological stations
ISBN : UOM:39015024391248
Author : Brian Milton
Publisher : Air World
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399048606
An in-depth narrative that stitches together the history and evolution of hang gliding, a pastime enjoyed by hundreds of thousands around the world. The New Aviation began with a hang-gliding meeting on a sand-dune in southern California on 23 May 1971. The longest flight that day was 196 feet, the longest time in the air just 11 seconds. But it was a start – the start of a movement that has grown exponentially world-wide with every passing year. The essence of the New Aviation is to stand on a hill, spread your wings, and climb into the sky by your own skill. It is the fundamentals of flight as it is meant to be, and this is the story of the development of this exhilarating sport, and of its largely unknown pioneers. The first of these was German pioneer aviator, Otto Lilienthal. Despite dozens of deaths before him, Lilienthal was the first to establish that manned flight was actually possible; before him, flight was just a dream. His tragic death in 1896 inspired the American Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, to their own experiments on a wind-swept beach in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, where the first powered flight there on 17 December 1903. The book begins and ends with two significant tales, opening with the life and death of Englishman Alvin Russell, and ending with the fabled Swiss flyer Didier Favre, who traversed the length of the Alps ‘by foot or by flight’. It is full of terrific stories, often repeating exploits of the mainstream aviators but flying just a kite and a trapeze bar, flying with eagles and teaching orphaned geese to migrate. It has exclusive accounts of record-breaking distances, on adding engines to ‘rag wings’, on how women broke into the machismo world and an English girl led a team in which every other competitor was a man, and beat them all. A History of the New Aviation is the first in-depth ‘narrative’ to stitch together the history and evolution of a pastime which is enjoyed by hundreds of thousands around the world. It is told by Brian Milton, the man who formed the British Hang Gliding League and led the first two British teams to beat the mighty Americans, for which he won the Prince of Wales Cup from Prince Charles, now King Charles III. Brian went on to make the first flight around the world by a powered hang glider. Two men set off on this flight; Brian returned alone.
