AircraftThe Pocket-sized Reference Book Series
The visual approach brings the subjects to life for all readers, and makes them easy to understand. Each book contains tables, figures, glossary and index. If you have ever wanted to find information on a subject, but not wanted to got to specialized tomes, you will want Firefly Pocket Guides. They are easy to handle and organized for easy reference. |
Contents
ALL ABOUT AIRCRAFT | 9 |
INTRODUCTION TO AIRCRAFT | 11 |
INSIDE AN AIRCRAFT | 21 |
Copyright | |
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AEROBATICS aileron Air Force Airbus airliner airport airships airspeed AVIATORS AVRO Avro Triplane balloon basic Bell X-1 biplane blades Blériot Boeing BOMBER bombs built cabin cable Canadair CL-415 cargo carry cockpit combat Concorde cruising speed cylinders DOGFIGHTS EJECT elevator enemy equipment FACTS fighter flew flight deck flying boat Fokker foreplanes Fuel tank fuselage Gearbox German glider Havilland Hawker Hawker Hart HAWKER TEMPEST helicopter in-flight jacket Jet exhaust jetliner km/h landing gear LIGHT AIRCRAFT Lilienthal load Lockheed long-range Mach magnetic anomaly detector metal missiles monoplane Museum nose Oxygen mask parachute PARAGLIDERS passengers pilot piston engine powered Pratt and Whitney propeller PROPLINERS radar rear refueling RJ-SERIES SEAPLANES seat SKYSHIP supersonic swing-wing tail rotor tailplane takeoff and landing thrust Today Tow plane transport Triplane turbine turbofan turbojet turboprops twin two-seater ultralight V-1 flying bomb wheels wings wingtips World World War II Wright brothers WRIGHT FLYER