Aerospace & Aviation Technology

Manufacturing processes for aircraft components include broad activities consisting of multiple materials processing technologies. This book focuse...

This book provides a complete overview of the theory, design, and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles. It covers the basics, including definit...

This book provides a complete overview of the theory, design, and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles. It covers the basics, including definit...

Aircraft emissions currently account for ~3.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions. The number of passenger miles has increased by 5% annually despite ...

While international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been less than satisfactory, there is a presumption that a significa...

In 1911, a legally deaf, beginner pilot with limited training and only 90 minutes of solo flying experience took on newspaper tycoon William Ran...

Although the United States won the race to the moon, the Soviets were far more active in space than Americans during the decade that followed. By t...

Introduction to Optimum Design, Fifth Edition is the most widely used textbook in engineering optimization and optimum design courses. It is intend...

Volume XI of the High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion series. Edited by W.R. Hawthorne and W.T. Olson. This is a comprehensive presentation o...

'Eject! Eject!'   When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story...  From the Sunday Times bestselling writer J...

John Cunningham started his illustrious aviation career with the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, at the same time learning to fly with ...

On the morning of 24 December 1943, 542 Squadron's intelligence officer briefed Flt Lt J. Storey on covering Crossbow sites in the Calais-Abbeville...

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. The 1970s were the final gasp of the Golden Age...

This edited volume contains the research results of the EU funded project MAAXIMUS. The topical focus lies on composite airframe technology with pa...