Author: Tony MittonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753472910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This picture book makes learning about helicopters fun.
Author: Molly AloianHelicopters
Author: Stanley S. McGowenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851094733
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci and first deployed in World War II, the helicopter is now a universal icon of modern warfare, a key component of combat planning around the world, and one of the military's most versatile and effective tools. Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the development of helicopters from a concept in Leonardo daVinci's mind to the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest tilt-rotor designs. Time and again, in a story of constant innovation, designers answered the concerns of military planners with more maneuverable, more capable rotorcraft. With expert analysis and specific details of every significant model ever used, Helicopters shows how these once denigrated machines became essential to a variety of missions (reconnaissance, transport, attack, support, evacuation, urban combat, quick strikes behind enemy lines, and more). In addition, the book looks at the impact of rotorcraft beyond the military, including their ever-widening role in emergency medical care, police work, traffic control, agriculture, news reporting, and more.
Wonderful Flying Machines
Author: Barrett Thomas BeardPublisher: PBS Publications
ISBN: 1545722544
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
About the Author: Barrett Thomas “Tom” Beard entered the Navy as an enlisted man in 1953 and completed flight training as a Navcad in 1955. With a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he flew operational missions—including carrier landings—in A-l Skyraiders and E-l Tracers. He qualified in more than a dozen other types of Navy aircraft, including F-9 Cougars. He served two tours as flight instructor in his ten years with the Navy. In 1965, following his return from a Vietnam tour at Yankee Station, Mr. Beard entered the Coast Guard. He flew in SAR operations in the HU-16E Albatross, the C-130 Hercules, and the HH-52A Seaguard. He qualified as a seaplane pilot, a shipboard helicopters pilot, and a Coast Guard standardization pilot, accumulating more than 6,000 military flight hours during his career. Mr. Beard holds an FAA airline transport pilot rating and a commercial helicopter rating, plus a Coast Guard master’s license for inspected vessels. After retiring in 1975, Mr. Beard returned to college, earning a master’s degree in history from Western Washington University in Bellingham. Following employment as a museum director, he turned back to the sea, in sailboats. Over the past twenty years, he and his wife, Carolyn, have sailed nearly 150,000 miles and visited about fifty countries as they’ve circled the world one and a half times. Mr. Beard takes vacations from these voyages to return home to research and write articles in his field of maritime history.
Helicopter Theory
Author: Wayne JohnsonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486682303
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
The history of the helicopter may be traced back to the Chinese flying top (c. 400 BC) and to the work of Leonardo da Vinci, who sketched designs for a vertical flight machine utilizing a screw-type propeller. In the late 19th-century, Thomas Edison experimented with helicopter models, realizing that no such machine would be able to fly until the development of a sufficiently lightweight engine. When the internal combustion gasoline engine came on the scene around 1900, the stage was set for the real development of helicopter technology. While this text provides a concise history of helicopter development, its true purpose is to provide the engineering analysis required to design a highly successful rotorcraft. Toward that end the book offers thorough, comprehensive coverage of the theory of helicopter flight: the elements of vertical flight, forward flight, performance, design, mathematics of rotating systems, rotary wing dynamics and aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, stability and control, stall, noise and more. Wayne Johnson has worked for the U.S. Army and NASA at the Ames Research Center in California. Through his company Johnson Aeronautics, he is engaged in the development of software that is used throughout the world for the analysis of rotorcraft. In this book, Dr. Johnson has compiled a monumental resource that is essential reading for any student or aeronautical engineer interested in the design and development of vertical-flight aircraft.
A Pilot's Tale - Flying Helicopters in Vietnam
Author: William HeilmanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 143571184X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In the 60's, a war was being fought in Vietnam. Helicopters were being used in many different rolls for the first time. The author recounts his experiences flying helicopters on two tours of duty in Vietnam.
Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics
Author: J. Gordon LeishmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523967
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Helicopters are highly capable and useful rotating-wing aircraft with roles that encompass a variety of civilian and military applications. Their usefulness lies in their unique ability to take off and land vertically, to hover stationary relative to the ground, and to fly forward, backward, or sideways. These unique flying qualities, however, come at a high cost including complex aerodynamic problems, significant vibrations, high levels of noise, and relatively large power requirements compared to fixed-wing aircraft. This book, written by an internationally recognized expert, provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft. Every chapter is extensively illustrated and concludes with a bibliography and homework problems. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practising engineers, and researchers will welcome this thorough and up-to-date text on rotating-wing aerodynamics.
Model Helicopters
Author: Malcolm MessiterPublisher: Traplet Publications
ISBN: 9781900371834
Category : Helicopters
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"This concise booklet guides the beginner through every aspect of getting started ion building, maintaining, and flying radio controlled model helicopters. ..."--Back cover.
Author: Ralph G. JohnstonAmazing Machines
Author: Tony MittonPublisher: Amazing Machines
ISBN: 9780753442586
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Buckle up to learn all about helicopters! Hovering Helicopters follows the animal crew as they become pilots. Each page is full of the kind of detail that machine-mad kids love: rotor blades, the cockpit, air ambulances, mountain rescue, and much more!
