Designed to help pilots at all levels of experience, this book concentrates on the full utilization of an aircraft's safe flight parameters. In particular, it c

Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to those of the space shuttles.

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A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic e