Good Word Guide

Good Word Guide

Author: Martin H. Manser

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-08-28

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1408123320

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'In every sense, a good word guide' Times Educational Supplement 'This intelligent guide is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all readers and writers' Good Book Guide Our language is changing faster than ever before. Modern communications are breaking down distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. This edition contains a new feature: 'Your Turn' sections - new interactive quizzes for the reader to test their own knowledge of grammar, plain English, punctuation, spelling and usage - a perfect resource for language courses. Endorsed by the Plain Language Commission.


The Viper Story, Part I

The Viper Story, Part I

Author: Jake Melampy

Publisher: Reid Air Publications., LLC

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780979506406

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Beretter om de enheder i det amerikanske "Flyvehjemmeværn" (Air National Guard), der benytter jagerflyet F-16.


Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics

Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics

Author: Thomas R. Yechout

Publisher: AIAA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 9781600860782

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Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.


A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91

A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91

Author: Peter Mersky

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 147284064X

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At the A-7 Corsair II's peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of the aircraft, including six Naval Air Reserve units, and these many of these units saw action across the Middle East. By the time the jet saw combat in Operation Desert Storm (1991), there remained only two fleet squadrons – many fleet squadrons having either disestablished or transitioned to the F/A18 Hornet – but both of these units (VA-46 and VA-72) played a major role in the campaign to free Kuwait. The book details the technological development and improvements that were introduced to the airframe post-Vietnam (the FLIR targeting pod from 1979 and AGM-88 HARM missile from 1983 being the most important), and how they shaped operational employment of the aircraft. The jet's combat experiences in conflicts during the 1970s (Cambodia), 1980s (Lebanon, Grenada, Libya and Iran), and 1990s (Iraq) are explained in detail, and Peter Mersky's expert analysis is supported by numerous first-hand accounts from naval aviators that saw action with the A-7 during these campaigns.


The Modern Viper Guide

The Modern Viper Guide

Author: Jake Melampy

Publisher: Reid Air Publications., LLC

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780979506413

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The Moden Viper Guide is an absolute "Must Have" for those wishing to know more about what makes the F-16 "tick". With input from F-16 pilots and crewchiefs, this is the ONLY book on the market to highlight the differences from one F-16 production Block to the next, with photos and text used to explain the similarities/differences. This is the most informative, up-to-date, accurate, and detailed F-16 book on the market with NO exception. Special emphasis is placed on modern upgrade programs (CCIP and CUPID) and modern weapons (JDAM, LITENING and Sniper targeting pods, GBU-12, AIM-9X, WCMD, etc.) This book makes all over F-16 books obsolete, and is perfect for anyone wishing to build that perfect scale model of the F-16.


Generation Kill

Generation Kill

Author: Evan Wright

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1101207612

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Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.