Author: Shawn Coyle Publisher: ISBN: 9780979263842 Category : Helicopters Languages : en Pages : 0
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The first book to cover exclusively landing a helicopter without engine power. From basics to advanced techniques, for beginner to flight instructor. Covers why not to practice engine-off landings on grass.
Author: Greg Whyte Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071776680 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 396
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Acquire the Life-Saving Skills Needed to Eliminate or Reduce Most Helicopter Accidents A vital resource for pilots, helicopter enthusiasts, and aircraft maintenance technicians, Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots analyzes all aspects of helicopter accidents, including flight basics, engineering, meteorology, flight training, and human factors. This life-saving guide shows how proper preparation can help prevent accidents by addressing causes such as aerodynamic problems, mechanical failures, poor loading, mid-air collisions, and more. Filled with case studies and first-hand accounts of accidents, the book organizes accident types by primary causes, presenting proven methods for eliminating or reducing the possibility of each type. Greg Whyte, an ex commercial helicopter pilot and professional aviation writer, draws on his own flying experiences and those of other flight veterans to provide a wealth of practical information and safety tips that are essential for everyone who flies, maintains or crews in helicopters. Filled with over 100 helpful illustrations, Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots enables readers to: Identify and address the common causes of helicopter accidents Explore in-depth examples of accident scenarios Examine the technical details of accident causes Review case studies and first-hand accounts of accidents Learn from the plain-English notes on avoidance and recovery Inside This Aviation Accident-Prevention Guide • Basic Flight Principles • Vortex Ring State • Recirculation • Ground Resonance • Retreating Blade Stall • Dynamic Rollover • Overpitching • Main Rotor Strikes • Mid-Air Collisions • Mast Bumping • Engine Failures • Tail Rotor Failures • Mechanical Failures • Fuel • Fire • Ditching • Loading Issues • Winching • Weather • Crew and Pre-flight Hazards • Human Factors • Training Mishaps
Author: Shawn Coyle Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 9780813821696 Category : Helicopters Languages : en Pages : 0
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Written from a pilot's perspective, this unique book provides a comprehensive overview of helicopter flying. It provides insight into all aspects of the modern helicopter, from turbine engines to automatic flight control systems, including descriptions of phenomena not explained elsewhere. Based on the author's experience of flying more than 43 types of helicopters, the book is easily understood and describes not only the way helicopters fly but also some of the peculiar things they do, and why.
Author: Shawn Coyle Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557090660 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 538
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Possibly the most complete book written to date on helicopters and helicopter flying. Covers subjects not covered by other manuals such as turbine engines, performance, flight manuals, automatic flight controls, legal aspects, introductory stability and control and multi-engine helicopters.
Author: Jeremiah Emmanuel Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1529118611 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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A moving and powerful account of the problems faced by a new generation, from crime to poverty to an increasingly divided society, from an extraordinarily accomplished young activist and entrepreneur. My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I'm twenty years old. I'm an activist, an entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament. I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first. Raised in south London, I lived in an area where crime and poverty were everywhere and opportunities to escape were rare. Violence was accepted, prison was expected. Your best friend might vanish overnight, never to be seen again. That was the world I knew; the only one I thought was possible for people like me. But somehow, as I got older, I found my way to a different world: a place where people listened to you, where opinions were heard, where doors were opened, where there were opportunities around every corner. Everything had stayed the same and everything had changed. This is the story of how I did it, the people who helped me get there, and the huge hurdles I - and my entire generation - have to learn to face and overcome. It's the story of how to move forward in a world that's holding you back.
Author: Michael Brownfield Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781441563828 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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The story Generals May Fall is a fantasy story with numerous religious elements. The classic struggle of good and evil; betrayal; war; love; romance; action; mystery; and suspense. I didn't know who the biggest book buyer's were or what they found interesting, so I have a little bit of everything. However due to its subject matter and content, the target audience are people of maturity 18 years and up should be able to enjoy this story. The story is about two angelic generals who are in love with each other. They fought alongside each other and fell with each other. One of the Generals was tried by God for murdering a fellow angel. She was sentenced to hell; the other general sacrificed himself and went to hell with her, because of love. The two generals found that they could fight their way out of hell in a supernatural battle with the leaders of hell. When the two generals win their passage back, they are reborn into the mortal world as people who have a direct role in the end of the world. They were told that if they lived this second life in a manner appeasing to God, they would be judged a second time and maybe found vindicated and restored to their heavenly rank. While the two live their lives they are intuitively drawn to each other, as if they could still remember their romance in heaven. Together they learn that the demons that still work in the hearts of men, and still convene with each other, had conjured up a conspiracy that would mean the end of all things. Even the demons were deceived into thinking that they could become stronger in the execution of this conspiracy, but instead became a casualty of this conspiracy. As the hero and heroine faced certain doom, the heroine figured out the key to stopping the unstoppable curse called the Necrofilum. For their sacrifice, God judged the two generals again, and made them vindicated generals.
Author: R. Randall Padfield Publisher: Tab Books ISBN: 9780830620920 Category : Helicopters Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
Discusses the principles of helicopter flight, controls, maneuvers, hovering, autorotation, emergencies, helicopter systems, safety, and other topics.
Author: Robert Mason Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110117515X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 423
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A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger. "Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author: Eugene W. Rawlins Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500102852 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
During the early stages of helicopter development, when helicopters were able to lift just slightly more than their own weight, the military services were eagerly seeking to obtain a variety of larger, more useful helicopters. The youthful helicopter industry expressed optimism, although at times unrealistic, in its ability to meet the military requirements. The development of the helicopter program within the Marine Corps was sparked by the foresight and imagination of the officers of the period. While early helicopters provided stepping stones for an orderly progression of the program, the slowness of the technical advances and the periods of financial austerity after World War II and Korea prevented the Marine Corps from developing the vertical envelopment concept as rapidly as desired. The program gained interest and momentum, however, as a result of the success of helicopters in Korea. As Lieutenant General Gerald C. Thomas stated: "Indeed, the helicopter gave clear evidence, from its first tactical employment, that a major advance in combat was at hand." This history, which traces the development of helicopters in the Marine Corps from 1946 to 1962, offers a tribute to the creative vision and planning of a handful of Marine officers who conceived of the vertical assault concept in amphibious operations at a time when suitable aircraft to make it work did not exist. The story of the subsequent struggle to procure and develop those aircraft, to refine a doctrine for their employment, and to familiarize the Marine Corps with their use is an interesting and vital part of modern Marine Corps history. The documentary basis for this monograph was primarily the official records of the Marine Corps and Navy Department, but considerable use was made of interviews and correspondence with key individuals involved in all phases of helicopter development.
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