From the first Bumper V-2 launch in1950 to the Atlas V vehicles of today, over 55 years of Cape Canaveral history is captured in this exhaustive co...

One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875–1912) came of age in the fading years of a gilded era, determined to have more ...

"Reg Mitchell is a modest, decent man with a gift for designing fast aeroplanes. Two horrors seek him out – terminal illness, and Nazi Germany’s pr...

This book is devoted to new advances in all branches of mathematics, game theory and applications, and pure and applied algebra and geometry includ...

The United States' aviation transportation system is an important component of the U.S. economy and one of the safest and most efficient systems in...

The subject of aircraft icing has a major impact on aviation safety. In this book, interdisciplinary topics related to aircraft icing are addressed...

Rocket Science. Two words which are synonymous with complexity. Two words which for many people signify the zenith of human genius. A phrase which ...

Until recently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had applied relatively uniform methods to screen airline passengers, focusing prim...

General aviation (GA) is a catch-all category that includes about 54% of all civilian aviation activity within the United States and encompasses a ...

In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in 1965. Seek and Destr...

Chapters 1 and 2 explore the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accidents, the resulting international grounding of the Boeing 7...

This is a comprehensive, no holds barred look at the men and women who captain large commercial jet airliners. Who are they? How did they end up fl...