Quest For Flight
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Quest For Flight
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Author : Craig S. Harwood
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-10-17
Quest For Flight written by Craig S. Harwood and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.
Quest For Flight
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Author : Gary B. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-10-11
Quest For Flight written by Gary B. Fogel and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.
Quest For All Weather Flight
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Author : Tom A. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Release Date : 2002
Quest For All Weather Flight written by Tom A. Morrison and has been published by Crowood Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Between the years 1903, when man first took to the skies in a powered aeroplane, and 1982, when a scheduled airliner landed automatically in blind conditions of dense fog, the problem of all-weather, anytime flying was solved. This is the story of the evolution of instruments, radar, radio communications, fly by wire system, and much more. A fascinating read for all aviation enthusiasts.
Quest For Performance
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Author : Laurence K. Loftin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Quest For Performance written by Laurence K. Loftin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Transportation categories.
This provides access to a NASA History Office publication, NASA SP-468, by Laurence K. Loftin, Jr, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, Washington, D.C. 1985. It traces the technical development of the airplane since World War I. It describes significant aircraft that incorporated important technical innovations and served to shape the future course of aeronautical development, as well as aircraft that represented the state of the art of aeronautical technology in a particular time frame or that were very popular and produced in great numbers. Primary emphasis has been placed on aircraft originating in the United States. The discussion is related primarily to aircraft configuration evolution and associated aerodynamic characteristics and, to a lesser extent, to developments in aircraft construction and propulsion. The material is presented in a manner designed to appeal to the nontechnical reader who is interested in the evolution of the airplane, as well as to students of aeronautical engineering or others with an aeronautical background.
A Hole In The Wind
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Author : Hank Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
A Hole In The Wind written by Hank Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Hang gliding categories.
Another Icarus
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Author : Philip Jarrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Another Icarus written by Philip Jarrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Aeronautics categories.
Beretning om den engelske flyvepioner Percy Sinclair Pilcher's planlagte forsøg på at prøveflyve sit tre-planede svævefly forsynet med motor
Pilot Quest
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Author : Darlene Sredl
language : en
Publisher: Readersmagnet LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Pilot Quest written by Darlene Sredl and has been published by Readersmagnet LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
Aspiring to become a pilot, Lindsey finds this life goal is not so easily accomplished. Compounding the usually expected obstacles of financing the in-flight education and training comes to the reality that none of this would be approved by her husband and thus, must be kept a secret. Keeping secrets is never easy, especially not for Lindsey who had to balance the demands of a highly stressful nursing administrative position, with childcare arrangements for 4 children, and airplane rentals which led to a dwindling bank account. While these were foreseeable obstacles that could ultimately be managed, a few other situations surfaced that could not have been anticipated. Situations like: amorous overtures from half the flight instructors (who happen to be a very sexy lot); getting lost at altitude with little gas left in the wing tanks while flying a 500-mile solo; horrified seeing blood spurting from the shoulder wound of a flight mechanic who got too close to a slicing propeller; aborted permission-to-land transmissions from ground control as Lindsey was on final approach 200 feet above the runway; and, auto-rotating a helicopter down to a crash landing in a thick forest, then, deserted by the new flight instructor who bit off more than he could chew with Lindsey! Readers can get a realistic glimpse of how to fly by reading this book.
The Longest Flight
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Author : Shirley Woodhouse Murdock
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-10-02
The Longest Flight written by Shirley Woodhouse Murdock and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with History categories.
It started as an innocent challenge and through sheer determination and pure tenacity, it developed into one of the greatest and most successful promotions ever conducted in the state of Arizona.
Flight Of The Kharadron
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Author : Tom Huddleston (Journalist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Flight Of The Kharadron written by Tom Huddleston (Journalist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Antiquities categories.
In Full Flight
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Author : John Heminway
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-02-19
In Full Flight written by John Heminway and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname—this one sinister—while working as a “doctor” in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.