Transport Technology & Trades

What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the...

CEAM leads all the experiments at a rate of 350 per year for all types of aircraft equipment: aircraft, weapons, software, ergonomic equipment. The...

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) use information and communications technologies (ICT) to deliver transport improvements instead of extending ph...

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea. The world's seas and oceans are big ...

It was Tuesday, 15 July 1919 and for the residents of Clifden on Ireland's west coast this was not to be a normal day. Just before 08.40 hours, des...

All models 1970-2006, Probably best-known for its starring role in the Hollywood movie Top Gun, the variable geometry two-seat carrier-based Grumma...

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...

Rapid changes are underway in mobility systems worldwide, including the introduction of shared mobility solutions, Mobility as a Service and the te...

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 ...

A number of wireless technologies have been developed in recent years to meet the increasing needs of high-speed wireless communications in civil a...

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...

Thrilling High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched SUNDAY TIMES This bo...

Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer Sonny Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik sate...

A unique Haynes Manual, providing fascinating technical insight into the development and use of rocket planes, focusing on the iconic X-15, which c...

This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene...

For each generation there is a machine, often a vehicle, which is prized for enormously more than its mechanical purpose. The Comet was one such; f...

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