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Handbook on H.M. Airship, Rigid No. 9
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 20.99The original of this handbook is amongst the rarest of all official Great War publications with its initial print runs being just 250 copies. Detailing the hull framework, gas bags, engines, instrumentation, controls, ballast, mooring and handling, armament, trial flights, modifications, stations and duties of crew, and specifications, etc, etc, with... more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This simulation model should help the US Air Force to better understand its jet engine intermediate maintenance system. Users can track the engine operation and maintenance process from the flightline through various shops and back. more...
Paul Andrews Presents - The UFO Report
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 4.49This gripping read is based on an original book by .Edward J. Ruppelt who was the head of the United States Air Force UFO research - Project Blue Book - from 1951 until 1953. He of course had a unique insight into what went on within that project at that time. He died at the age of just 37 in 1960. Newly edited, and with some new illustrations added,... more...
Britain and the H-Bomb
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 40.00This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the remarkable men who created the bomb, the four weapon trials at a remote Pacific atoll in 1957-58, and the historic consequences. more...
Assessing the Impact of Future Operations on Trainer Aircraft Requirements
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Addresses the impact of changing skills required of fighter, mobility, bomber, and Special Operations Forces pilots on decisions about replacing or extending service lives of trainer aircraft. more...
Implementing Performance-based Services Acquisition (PBSA)
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This text examines how an Air Logistics Center and a Product Center apply performance-based practices in their service contracts for weapon systems development and sustainment and installation support. more...
Air Force Procurement Workforce Transformation
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95To assist the Air Force in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, this monograph reviews related commercial-sector activities and skills, suggests models for training programs, and includes a framework of metrics to track progress and refine procurement-workforce-development efforts over time. more...
Performance-Based Contracting in the Air Force
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95In recent years, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has initiatedand the Air Force has aggressively implementeda policy aimed at the widespread adoption of performance-based services acquisition (PBSA), an outcome-oriented approach in which the buyer tells the offeror what it needs rather than how to meet that need. more...
Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 146.95This title is winner of the 2010 IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award. In light of increasing economic and international threats, military operations must be examined with a critical eye in terms of process design, management, improvement, and control. Although the Pentagon and militaries around the world have utilized industrial engineering... more...
Advances in Missile Guidance, Control, and Estimation
CRC Press 2012; US$ 159.95Stringent demands on modern guided weapon systems require new approaches to guidance, control, and estimation. There are requirements for pinpoint accuracy, low cost per round, easy upgrade paths, enhanced performance in counter-measure environments, and the ability to track low-observable targets. Advances in Missile Guidance, Control, and Estimation... more...









