 | | |
Aviation eBooks
You have selected the subject of Aviation.
The eBooks in this subject are listed below.
|
Browse Subcategories
|
RESULTS: 71 to 80 of 104
PAGE: | ‹‹ Back 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ›› Next
 |
JUMP!
By: Buchanan, Tom
Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional
To jump or not to jump--this book answers the question! Here's just the thing for anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of skydiving and wants to know more before deciding if the sport is right for them. Writing for those with no real skydiving knowledge, the author provides a complete overview of the sport, discussing the thrill, the risk, the basics, jump training, safety training, the cost, the time, where to go, what to do, questions to ask, and much more. THE book to read before enrolling in a skydiving class. * Explains the types of skydiving: Tandem, Accelerated Freefall, and Static Line. * Tells how to go about selecting a school or training program. * Provides a series of questions to ask when comparing skydiving centers by telephone. * Includes Frequently Asked Questions. * Beautiful 8-page color insert
more...
Price: $14.95
|
 |
Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulence
By: Lesieur, M.; Métais, O.; Comte, P.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulence is an ideal introduction and reference to LES, direct numerical simulation and Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation. It features detailed discussion of vorticity, pressure, and the velocity gradient tensor, and an in-depth discussion of spectral subgrid-scale modeling. Also featured is a discussion of large-eddy simulation of compressible flows.
more...
Price: $56.00
|
 |
Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative
By: Murman, Prof Earll; Allen, Prof Tom; Bozdogan, Kirkor
Published by: Palgrave
Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.
more...
Price: $58.50
|
 |
Military Airframe Costs
By: Younossi, Obaid; Kennedy, Michael; C. Graser, John
Published by: RAND Corporation
An analysis of the effects of materials and manufacturing techniques on airframe costs, exploring the implications of these effects on acquisition policy. It concludes that composites, while offering a number of advantages, are generally associated with higher costs across a range of categories.
more...
Price: $20.00
|
 |
Modal Analysis
By: Fu, Zhi-Fang; He, Jimin
Published by: Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
This book provides a detailed overview of the theory of analytical and experimental modal analysis and its applications. Modal Analysis is the processes of determining the inherent dynamic characteristics of any system and using them to formulate a mathematical model of the dynamic behavior of the system. In the past two decades it has become a major technological tool in the quest for determining, improving and optimizing dynamic characteristics of engineering structures. Its main application is in mechanical and aeronautical engineering, but it is also gaining widespread use in civil and structural engineering, biomechanical problems, space structures, acoustic instruments and nuclear engineering.
more...
Price: $108.00
|
 |
Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
By: Ollero, Anibal (ed.); Maza, Ivan (ed.)
Published by: Springer
Provides an overview of issues related to aerial robotics, addressing problems ranging from flight control to terrain perception and mission planning and execution. This book examines potential applications of UAVs and details a relevant application case: forest fire detection and monitoring.
more...
Price: $99.00
|
 |
NASA's Scientist-astronauts
By: Shayler, David; Burgess, Colin
Published by: Springer
Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of expanding the role of astronauts to conduct science on future space missions led to NASA's conclusion that flying scientifically trained crewmembers would generate greater returns from each mission.
more...
Price: $39.95
|
 |
No Visible Horizon
By: Ramo, Joshua Cooper
Published by: S&S Ebooks
In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures at hundreds of miles an hour. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly really well and to win you must depart the land of the possible and enter a place of pure faith. In this stunning literary debut, Joshua Cooper Ramo has crafted a meditation on the seduction of flight and a passionate love letter to a life of risk.
more...
Price: $11.99
|
 |
Piloting Basics Handbook
By: Bjork, Lewis
Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional
The ultimate guide for flying skillfully and safely. Now, in one comprehensive volume you can get both step-by-step instruction in basic piloting skills, and FARs that every pilot must be able to reference and understand. Piloting Basics by Lewis Bjork truly packs all the detailed, profusely illustrated how-to information you need. From total preflight preparations to takeoffs and landings, it’s all here: basic instrument flying…transitioning to multiengine airplanes…navigating…reading standard and supplemental visual charts…flying in special-use airspace…working with transponders…operating in class B, class C, and TRSA airport environments…what to do in an emergency – and much, much more. You learn vital facts about terminal radar approach and departure control facilities, air route traffic control centers, and Unicorn and Multicom airport radio communications. What’s more, this pilot’s information powerhouse puts at your fingertips the expertise of six bestselling references: Love’s Flight Maneuvers and Light Airplane Navigation Essentials -- plus must-have aviation classics including Illman’s Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook, 5th Edition; Lankford’s Understanding Aeronautical Charts, 2nd Edition and Frazier’s ABCs of Safe Flying, 4th Edition.
more...
Price: $49.95
|
PAGE: | ‹‹ Back 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ›› Next
RESULTS: 71 to 80 of 104
| | Transportation Best Sellers
Special Offers
 First time to eBooks.com?
Easy steps to using eBooks
Sign up for Email Alerts
Receive an email alert when we release new books in your field.
10% off New York Times Best Sellers
eBook versions of the New York Times Best Sellers - at 10% off!
Best Selling Fiction Titles
Books that are definitely worth a read - our Best Selling Fiction
Free Excerpts
Free excerpts for titles which are new, noteworthy or strongly in demand this month.
Just Arrived!
We're adding hundreds of great titles each month.
Recently Reduced Titles
On Sale - Our favorite and most popular ebooks!
Featured Authors
20% off titles by our favorite authors!
Visit the Cambridge University Press eBook Store
Cambridge University Press, the oldest university press in the world, has just launched its own eBook Store, powered by eBooks.com.
Maintain Your Brain
Is your grey matter in need of a tune up??? Take a look at some of these excellent titles, to stimulate your synapses!
Take the law into your own hands!
Get Rich Now
Get control of your finances with our "Financial Independence Library"
Gift Certificates
Give the gift of reading with an eBooks.com Gift Certificate
| |
