Hans Von Ohain

Hans Von Ohain

Author: Margaret Conner

Publisher: AIAA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781563475207

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This is the first book ever to chronicle the life and work of Dr. Hans von Ohain, the brilliant physicist who invented the first turbojet engine that flew on 27 August 1939. The book follows him from childhood through his education, the first turbojet development, and his work at the Heinkel Company, where his dream of elegance in flight was ultimately realized with the flight of the Heinkel He 178, powered by the turbojet engine he created. It also presents his immigration to the United States and his career with the United States Air Force, whereupon he became one of the top scientists in the field of advanced propulsion. The book is a historical document, but it is also evidence of a mans dream coming true in the creation of elegance in flight, and its impact on mankind.


Flying Lightness

Flying Lightness

Author: Adriaan Beukers

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9789064505386

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Flying Lightness paints a picture of a heroic century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities for optimizing aircraft configurations and revising structural principles. Composites are combinations of two or more physically distinct materials that enhance each other's properties. The new modes of system integration and improved structural quality they offer may even produce a 30 percent more efficient 'blended wing' passenger plane. Flying wings, once just a footnote in the history of air transport, could well become the aircraft of the 21st century. Best Dutch Book Design 2005.


Flight

Flight

Author: R.G. Grant

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1465469362

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"Discover the fascinating stories behind humankind's conquest of the skies, from dreamers and inventors to modern-day astronauts. Take a sky-high journey through the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage, to the tragic crash of the Columbia, and more, in this stunning book packed with information on the history of aviation. Charting the trailblazers, jet test pilots, and constant progress at the cutting-edge of technology, every aspect of flight is explored. Recalling memorable events of the sky - record-breaking flights, aerial warfare, and hijackings - Flight is the story of how our dream to fly became a reality. This visual guide features remarkable photography on every page and galleries throughout to showcase important aircraft - with multiple viewpoints and their key statistics. Anyone interested in airplanes and vehicles of the sky, and their inventors, engineers, and pilots should have this book on their shelf.


A Week at the Airport

A Week at the Airport

Author: Alain De Botton

Publisher: Emblem Editions

Published: 2010-09-21

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0771026285

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The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.


Vitesse-Élégance

Vitesse-Élégance

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780977980918

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A very beautiful large format book covering French coachbuilding and styling in pre-WWII years including Bugatti, Voisin, Hispano, De Dion, Tatra, Peugeot, Bucialli, Citro�n, Panhard and more. The ultimate photographic study of the French cars in the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard California.


AIAA Journal

AIAA Journal

Author: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13:

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Fashion in Flight

Fashion in Flight

Author: SFO Museum

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-04

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780692711330

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An SFO Museum exhibition catalogue covering eighty years of airline uniform design for the female flight attendant. Over seventy examples of uniform ensembles and accessories are presented. Full plate and detail photography reveal the evolution of this unique garment type as created by more than thirty designers, fashion houses, and couturiers from Paris, London, Milan, New York, and Hollywood. Seen against the backdrop of western fashion, the demands and innovations of meeting a set of strict, and sometime contradictory requirements, reveal the challenges and successes in paralleling, lagging behind, or even jumping ahead of trends and movements in the larger world of contemporary fashion. Over twenty airlines are included with uniforms dating from the 1930s to the present.


Skyfaring

Skyfaring

Author: Mark Vanhoenacker

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0385351828

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A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.


The New Technology Elite

The New Technology Elite

Author: Vinnie Mirchandani

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1118237277

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How-to guidance for optimizing incumbent technologies to deliver a better product and gain competitive advantage Their zip codes are far from Silicon Valley. Their SIC codes show retail, automobile or banking. But industry after industry is waking up to the opportunity of "smart" products and services for their increasingly tech-savvy customers. Traditionally technology buyers, they are learning to embed technology in their products and become technology vendors. In turn, if you analyze Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and eBay, you marvel at their data centers, retail stores, application ecosystems, global supply chains, design shops. They are considered "consumer" tech but have better technology at larger scale than most enterprises. The old delineation of technology buyer and vendor is obsolete. There is a new definition for the technology elite - and you find them across industries and geographies. The 17 case studies and 4 guest columns spread through The New Technology Elite bring out the elite attributes in detail. Every organization will increasingly be benchmarked against these elite - and soon will be competing against them. Contrasts the productivity that Apple, Google and others have demonstrated in the last decade to that of the average enterprise technology group Reveals how to leverage what companies have learned from Google, Apple, Amazon.com, and Facebook to your company's advantage Designed for business practitioners, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, technology vendors, venture capitalists, IT consultants, marketing executives, and policy makers Other titles by Vinnie Mirchandani: The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations If you're looking to encourage technology innovation, look no further. The New Technology Elite provides the building blocks your company needs to become innovative through incumbent technologies.