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Ballooning --- Balloons --- Aerostats --- Military balloons --- Aeronautics --- Airships --- Expandable space structures --- Hot air ballooning --- Aeronautical sports --- History

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This is the FAA's primary technical manual for the required aeronautical knowledge necessary to operate a glider. It is essential reading for applicants preparing for the exams for private, commercial, or flight instructor pilot certificates with a glider rating, as well as for currently certificated glider pilots who wish to improve their knowledge. Flight instructors will find this handbook a valuable training aid since it includes detailed coverage of aeronautical decision making, components and systems, aerodynamics, flight instruments, performance limitations, ground operations, flight maneuvers, traffic patterns, emergencies, soaring weather, soaring techniques, and cross-country flight. In addition, readers will find information on towing, human factors, and the Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) Safety Advisory 00-1, Glider Critical Assembly Procedures, which covers ensuring aircraft airworthiness. Illustrated throughout with detailed, full-color drawings and photographs, the guide also includes a comprehensive glossary and an index.

Gliders (Aeronautics) --- Gliding and soaring --- Piloting --- Flight, Unpowered --- Motorless flight --- Soaring (Aeronautics) --- Soaring flight --- Aeronautical sports --- Aeronautics --- Sailplanes (Aeronautics) --- Airplanes

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"After August 1945, millions of U.S. servicemen formed a tidal wave of people returning to civilian life--locating or returning to work, heading to school under the GI Bill, marrying and starting families. With much profit, historians in various fields have examined this effort to recover normalcy. Meyer points out that a great many of the vets, not all of them trained military airmen, also took up the hobby of flying, and he here explores what became a postwar phenomenon, the spectacular growth of American private aviation (i.e., neither military nor commercial) and the rise of the "weekend pilot." He takes readers inside a culture that turns out to be something of a throwback: It required exceptionally high skill levels; involved considerable risk; encouraged, demanded, fierce personal independence; indulged a post-military fatalism, even among the younger sort who later joined the movement; and above all granted one membership in a self-consciously white, male circle of the initiated. How does one explain the development of this peculiar culture? Meyer searches for answers in public records, trade association prints, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews. He has put together an impressive first book. Norman Mailer once argued that most right-leaning politics since the 1970's draws upon the anxieties and grievances of displaced white American males. He may have spoken best for himself, but this book will give credence to the observation"--Provided by publisher.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Air pilots --- Private flying --- Airline pilots --- Airplane pilots --- Airplanes --- Aviators --- Pilots (Aeronautics) --- Flight crews --- Civil aeronautics --- Civil aviation --- Flying, Private --- General aviation --- Personal flying --- Private aviation --- Aeronautical sports --- Aeronautics --- Influence. --- Sex differences --- Psychology. --- History --- Pilots

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This book is concerned with the sport of soaring, mainly with the mathematical basis of sailplane design and operation. It does not tell the beginner how to fly, but it will give an experienced pilot some background, with historical notes showing how ideas have evolved and could develop in the future. Some of the material is taken from OSTIV (Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale de Vol a Viole) publications and from Technical Soaring, neither of which is readily available to the general public, including papers by the author and others. Extensive references are provided in eac

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"All the world is mad about balloons" observers recorded during the craze in Britain that lasted from 1783 to 1786. Excitement about the new invention spread rapidly, inspiring hopes, visions, fashions, celebrations, satires, imaginary heroics and real adventures. In this sparkling account, Brant uses the brief moment of balloon madness as a way into a wide-ranging exploration of Enlightenment sensibility in Britain. She follows the craze as it travelled around the country, spread through crowds and shaped the daily lives and dreams of individuals. From the levity of fashion, political satire and light verse inspired by balloons, she shows how wonders of air and speed also connected with the deeper preoccupations and anxieties of eighteenth-century Britain. An aerial 'view from above' provided new moral perspectives on the place of humans in the universe and the nature of their aspirations; while the success of the French, leaders in aeronautics, unsettled national identity with visions of a new world order. The practical limitations of balloons soon put an end to one set of possibilities, but their effect on popular culture was more enduring, with meaning even today. With a cast including kings, politicians, charlatans, pickpockets, the beau monde, duellists and animals, Balloon Madness celebrates the excitement and fun of this brief but world-changing episode of history and its long afterlife in our imagination. CLARE BRANT is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London.

Hot air balloons --- Balloons --- Aerostats --- Military balloons --- Aeronautics --- Airships --- Expandable space structures --- History. --- History --- Great Britain --- Ballooning --- Social aspects --- Hot air ballooning --- Aeronautical sports --- 1700-1799 --- Aeronautics. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Balloon. --- British Culture. --- Cultural history. --- Early Modern History. --- Eighteenth-century Art. --- English literature. --- European History. --- Fashion. --- Great Britain. --- History of ideas. --- Hot Air Balloon. --- National identi. --- Travel.