Know Your Helicopters

Author: Thomas Hargreave
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 191215806X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Know Your Helicopters is a pocket-sized book detailing 44 types of helicopters most commonly seen in service today from the smallest Robinson to the biggest Mil, including Bells, Boeings, Sikorskys and many more. A photograph of each machine is included.Tom Hargreave served 18 years in the British Army as an Army Air Corps pilot. In this time he accumulated 2,500 hours of flight time across a variety of helicopter types including the Gazelle, Lynx, Agusta 109 and the Apache.

Know Your Helicopters

Author: Thomas Hargreave
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 191215806X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Learning to Fly Helicopters

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.

How Do Helicopters Work?

Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761389660
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Take a ride in a helicopter and learn what makes it fly.

The God Machine

Author: James R. Chiles
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 030748548X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who contributed to the development of this amazing machine, and pays tribute to the selfless heroism of pilots and crews. A virtual flying lesson and scientific adventure tale, The God Machine is more than the history of an invention; it is a journey into the minds of imaginative thinkers and a fascinating look at the ways they changed our world.

Pilot Your Own Rescue Helicopter

Author: Beckie Williams
Publisher: Tide Mill Press
ISBN: 9781846661785
Category : Toy and movable books
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
Children will love 'playing pilot' with this magnetic wand book. Follow the rhyming story and manoeuvre the magnetic helicopter through eleven exciting scenes. A fun way to improve hand-eye coordination skills and encourage imaginative play.

Rc Helicopters

Author: Paul Lawrence
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781982086190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The best comprehensive guide to Rc Helicopters to date with most of the information a pilot needs to enjoy all that this hobby has to offer. This guide will help you to learn how to fly, repair and modify your helicopter. This book is for you if you: -If you want to learn how to effectively fly your helicopter -If you want to increase your piloting skills -Do you always have difficulty finding the parts needed for your helicopter? -Don't know what to look for when you need to make repairs on you copter? -Don't know what helicopter to choose if it is your first buy? -Don't know what types of helicopters you do get on the market, and what to choose from? -Don't know what kind of tools you need for modifications. -Don't know what spare parts you can exchange or modify your broken parts with. This book covers most of the topics to help guide you to enjoy all the benefits this hobby has to offer!

The Art and Science of Flying Helicopters

Author: Shawn Coyle
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780813821696
Category : Helicopters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

An Illustrated History of Military Helicopters

Author: Francis Crosby
Publisher: Southwater
ISBN: 9781780194615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A complete history of army and navy helicopters from first visionaries to unmanned aircraft systems.

Heart of the Storm

Author: Colonel Edward L. Fleming
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471264361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Advance praise for Heart of the Storm "Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fly the most versatile-and vulnerable-aircraft in the skies today." -John Glenn, former U.S. senator, astronaut, and bestselling author of John Glenn: A Memoir "To risk your life to save a stranger is the highest mark of a human being. Ed Fleming is such a man, and this book is a great read." -Dr. Jerri Nielsen, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ice Bound "Filled with suspense and emotion, Heart of the Storm reads like a thriller-but it's all true. Ed Fleming has led a dramatic and interesting life, and this book portrays it in living color." -Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Resolved and Absolute Rage