Название: Space Shuttle Discovery: The Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet (Smithsonian Series)
Автор: Valerie Neal
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 144
Размер: 23,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book places Space Shuttle Discovery within the history of the space shuttle program and provides an introduction to space shuttle technology with a focus on the orbiter itself. Discovery’s unique history is presented mission by mission that includes a brief narrative of each mission, a chart of its key statistics (dates, duration, altitude, payloads, etc.), each mission’s patch with an explanation of its unique symbolism, a crew portrait, and two to four iconic photos that capture the distinct activities and successes of each mission.

Название: Speed in the Air
Автор: David W. Wragg
Издательство: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 22,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

For airplanes speed is still the most important, perhaps the onlv, advantage that aircraft has over other methods of travel, and the well-known aviation writer David Wragg tells this fascinating story in all its picturesque aspects — aviation meetings, the Federation Auronautique Internationale, the Wright Brothers and Louis Bleriot, the rise of the monoplane, the 'unofficial' speeds of the two World Wars, the Schneider Trophy races and the dominance of the seaplane, the first airliners, the Messerschmitt and the Spitfire, pistons giving way to turbojets and then to rockets, the sound barrier, the supersonic era and the air-launched aircraft, Mach 6 and over.

Название: Aircraft Digital Electronic and Computer Systems 3rd Edition
Автор: Mike Tooley
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1003215516
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 412
Размер: 57,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Aircraft Digital Electronic and Computer Systems is a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of aircraft digital electronic, avionic and computer systems. New to this third edition, integrated modular avionics (IMA) provides an overview of networked avionics found in the latest generation of transport aircraft. Cabin systems covers cabin networks, intercommunication, and core systems.

Название: Motorcycle Porn - Portraits and Stories
Автор: Frank J. Bott
Издательство: Amherst Media
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 197
Размер: 11,7 Mb
Язык: English

Motorcycle Porn: Portraits and Stories is a book of prime motorcycle images taken by Frank J. Bott who works in Tooele, Utah. Frank is an aficionado of both photography and motorcycles. His photographs of the machines are extraordinary. The images were taken using a large cyclarama with lighting from a gigantic softbox allowing the light to wrap around these spectacular machines. This amazing collection of images––an extensive project of Franks J. Bott to document these unique bikes––contains a considerable assortment of motorcycles from the skillfully customized and hand built to the painstakingly restored to the historically significant vintage to the best-of-the-best. Each has a set of photographic portraits, including fine details, that tells its unique story.

Название: Chiltern Railways: The Inside Story
Автор: Shooter Adrian
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 35,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book, uniquely, gives an insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of one of Rail Privatization’s greatest successes. It also shows the reader some of the many ‘behind the scenes’ jobs which are essential to the functioning of a railway but which are rarely seen by outsiders.

Название: Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway
Автор: Peter Steer
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526778416
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 344
Размер: 27,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained program of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget.

Название: The London Volvo B7TL
Автор: Matthew Wharmby
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526786958
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 273
Размер: 59,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the turn of the century Volvo found itself in a three-way tussle with Dennis and DAF to design and produce Britain’s first low-floor double-deck buses. The resulting B7TL was later into service in London than its competitors, but quickly caught up to achieve parity with the Dennis Trident. Two lengths were available and three bodies, by Alexander, Plaxton and East Lancs.

Название: Porsche Passion: 911 Heaven and Beyond
Автор: Lance Cole
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526785692
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 162
Размер: 104,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In a book of Porsche photography and engaging conversation, Lance Cole journeys through a personal passion for Porsche –one that many supercar enthusiasts share. Herein light falls on sculpted metal and paint – shiny and less shiny.

Название: Bugatti Blue: Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti
Автор: Lance Cole
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526734753
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 53,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The British have had an affair with Bugatti for decades and perhaps Prescott Hill-Climb in Gloucestershire is the place where that relationship has reached its highlights across the decades. This collection of photographic images captures the brilliance of Bugatti design amid Bugatti blue at Prescott's wonderful natural amphitheatre in the Cotswolds – to which visitors, Bugatti owners, enthusiasts and addicts have travelled from all over the world to gather and to race up the hill.

Название: Great Western, King Class 4-6-0s: From Construction to Withdrawal
Автор: David Maidment
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526739852
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 63,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Built by Collett in 1927 after pressure to restore the GWR’s pre-eminence in motive power and cope with increasing traffic post-war to the Devon and Cornwall holiday resorts, the thirty Kings were the final development of the Churchward Stars and the 1923 Castles and remained on top-link main line duty until their final replacement by the ‘Western’ class 52 diesel hydraulics in 1962.