Download or read book The Wild Wonderful World of Parachutes and Parachuting written by Bud Sellick and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verschillende aspecten van het parachutespringen en aandacht voor belangrijke wedstrijden in deze tak van sport
Download or read book Magnificent Failure written by Craig Ryan and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locked in a desperate Cold War race against the Soviets to find out if humans could survive in space and live through a free fall from space vehicles, the Pentagon gave civilian adventurer Nick Piantanida’s Project Strato-Jump little notice until May Day, 1966. Operating in the shadows of well-funded, high-visibility Air Force and Navy projects, the former truck driver and pet store owner set a new world record for manned balloon altitude. Rising more than 23 miles over the South Dakota prairie, Piantanida nearly perished trying to set the world record for the highest free fall parachute jump from that height. On his next attempt, he would not be so lucky. Part harrowing adventure story, part space history, part psychological portrait of an extraordinary risk-taker, this story fascinates and intrigues the armchair adventurer in all of us.
Download or read book The Pre astronauts written by Craig Ryan and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before liquid-fuel rockets had launched us full-sail onto what John Kennedy would call the "new ocean", a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere to the edge of outer space in tiny capsules suspended beneath plastic balloons. They saw things no one had ever seen, and they experienced conditions no one was sure they could survive. This book tells the story of these brave and tenacious men as they labored on the cusp of a new age. The author captures the drama of their spectacular achievements and those of many of the other space pioneers who made America's stratospheric balloon programs possible. Their now largely forgotten programs supplied many systems and processes adopted by NASA. Unfortunately, some of the valuable lessons they brought back from the edge of space were ignored - in at least one case, with disastrous consequences. Craig Ryan's argument is compelling for the inclusion of these men's achievements in the broad history of space exploration and astronautics. In their day, before Gagarin and Glenn and American flags on the Sea of Tranquillity, these pre-astronauts were the space program.
Download or read book Aerodynamic Decelerators a Course Syllabus written by Michael Ravnitzky and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Parachute And Its Pilot written by Brian Germain and published by Adventure Wisdom LLC. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parachute and Its Pilot is the singular resource for canopy flight information. Whether you’re a new jumper looking to further your education or an expert canopy pilot seeking tips on advancing your techniques, this book has something for you. The book is jam-packed with information compiled over twenty years of skydiving experience and offers technical, straightforward explanations of ram air parachute flight. Written by one of the industry's leading parachute designers, The Parachute and Its Pilot is a must-have handbook for every skydiver.
Download or read book Half Mile Up Without an Engine written by Robert Gannon and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents instruction ranging from preflight training and inspection to landing and safety techniques as well as F.A.A. licensing regulations.
Download or read book The Science of Sports written by Sharon L. Blanding and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to sports than meets the eye. The Science of Sports: How Things in Sports Work explains how a curveball curves, why a basketball bounces, and what makes a boomerang come back. You'll learn all sorts of interesting facts that will impress your teammates and help you win the game. Along with each explanation is an illustration that makes learning quick and easy. You'll understand the art, history, and science behind your favorite games.
Download or read book Manbirds written by Maralys Wills and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Great American Balloon Book written by Bob Waligunda and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook about ballooning and balloonists with a detailed training syllabus.
Download or read book What Color Is Your Parachute 2012 written by Richard Nelson Bolles and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment
Download or read book Parachute to Berlin written by Lowell Bennett and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner. Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Download or read book Parachute Infantry written by David Webster and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel. From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland, here are acts of courage and cowardice, moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and pitched urban warfare. Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II, Webster presents a vivid, varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life, and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee. Parachute Infantry is at once harsh and moving, boisterous and tragic, and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war—how men fight it, survive it, and remember it.
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