Aerospace & Aviation Technology

In 2000 aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part of India hidden away in w...

Continuum mechanics deals with the stress, deformation, and mechanical behaviour of matter as a continuum rather than a collection of discrete part...

Thorough coverage of space flight topics with self-contained chapters serving a variety of courses in orbital mechanics, spacecraft dynamics, and a...

Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean. If each one carries 250 passengers, that could mean as many as 750,000 people on the ...

Mid-flight non-combat malfunctions, mishaps, and blunders, occur frequently in the USAF during routine training and utility flightssometimes unfort...

In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons?a former lead engineer in support of NASA?takes readers behind the scenes and into the inner workings of...

   One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASAs history, George W. S. Abbey was called the Dark Lord, the Godfather, and UNOshort for...

On June 14, 1919, a Vickers Vimy biplane lumbered into the air from a field in St Johns, Newfoundland. More than sixteen hours and 3,000 kilometres...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...

1969 onwards (all models), Written by two of British Airways' most experienced Concorde flight crew, the Concorde Manual is the latest aircraft man...

Combining a history of sailplane design with details of the calculations involved in construction this book, written in English, is divided into 4 ...

This book provides a comprehensive reference for the studies of mechanical properties of materials over multiple length and time scales. The topics...