Download or read book Low Flying Aircraft written by T. M. McNally and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low Flying Aircraft is a collection of interrelated stories in which one life is equally capable of influencing another "under a sky the size of history." Spanning a period of fourteen years, the stories are connected by the pasts of Orion McClenahan and Helen Jowalski, childhood friends whose fathers shared a law practice in Chicago. In 1976 a freak accident changes their lives irrevocably, and the stories are about the people Orion and Helen grow up to be, the people they love, and the people they lose along the way. In "Paris, the Easy Way," Sam is a stable manager who steps in to the lives of others while trying to avoid his own. Troubled by the disappearance of his brother in Cambodia and his own complicated relationship with his brother's wife, Sam finally accepts the mysteries that surround him: "Lightning, gravity, love--I've never properly understood any of it." Anna, a columnist writing on the complexities that face young modern women, loses all sense of her identity while visiting her father, a dying man who wants a grandson almost as much as he wants a daughter like Milly, the heroine of his favorite western novel. The voices in this collection describe a world of uncertain borders, where individuals are sustained by "thin, brief moments of direction." Orion a disillusioned photojournalist, sets himself free from his wealthy family and their Midwestern habits by discarding the things of his life: a clock radio, a blender, paperbacks. He will board a plane and fly to Central America "in order to document the situation, do some good." In "Breathing is Key," Sarah momentarily decides to stay with her abusive boyfriend because she doesn't know where else to go. "I think we have a lot here" she says, "and not all of it's bad." In story after story personal histories unfold, always what lies in wait is the possibility for connection. A brother who dies young, a first love, an abandoned husband--each persists in the realm of memory, adding texture and meaning to the lives they influence. In "The Future of Ruth" a woman comes to understand that "the proof of one's life lay in her death and the trees that might spread out and over a soul." In revolutionary Nicaragua, on a ranch in Arizona, from a Vermont Ski slope, the souls in Low Flying Aircraft soar, all hoping to catch a glimpse "of the shape of things to come, of possibility."

Download or read book Low flying Aircraft and Other Stories written by J. G. Ballard and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Low flying aircraft and other stories written by James Graham Ballard and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Responses of Mexican Spotted Owls to Low flying Military Jet Aircraft written by Charles L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sled Driver written by Brian Shul and published by Lickle Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aircraft ever captured the curiosity & fascination of the public like the SR-71 Blackbird. Nicknamed "The Sled" by those few who flew it, the aircraft was shrouded in secrecy from its inception. Entering the U.S. Air Force inventory in 1966, the SR-71 was the fastest, highest flying jet aircraft in the world. Now for the first time, a Blackbird pilot shares his unique experience of what it was like to fly this legend of aviation history. Through the words & photographs of retired Major Brian Shul, we enter the world of the "Sled Driver." Major Shul gives us insight on all phases of flying, including the humbling experience of simulator training, the physiological stresses of wearing a space suit for long hours, & the intensity & magic of flying 80,000 feet above the Earth's surface at 2000 miles per hour. SLED DRIVER takes the reader through riveting accounts of the rigors of initial training, the gamut of emotions experienced while flying over hostile territory, & the sheer joy of displaying the jet at some of the world's largest airshows. Illustrated with rare photographs, seen here for the first time, SLED DRIVER captures the mystique & magnificence of this most unique of all aircraft.

Download or read book Flying Low written by Joseph Furbee Gordon and published by Southfarm Press, Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flying a Piper Cub aircraft for artillery fire direction at the front lines against German forces in World War II was hazardous. Shot down twice, Joe Gordon survived to tell what it was like being a pilot of such a plane in combat. The Piper Cub aircraft, flying at the leading edge of American armored divisions, was especially useful as a spotter plane. The advantage of the view a few hunded feet above the leading tanks often resulted in devastating artillery fire raining down upon the enemy just where and when it was needed the most. Joe Gordon fought with the 65th Armored Artillery Battalion in battles from the German border with the Netherlands to the Rhine River and from the Rhine to the Elbe River until almost the end of the European war in May 1945."--Inside back dust cover.

Download or read book How You Can Help FAA Identify Unauthorized Low flying Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of Low Flying Aircraft on Archaeological Structures written by James C. Battis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Induced vibrations from aircraft overflights were measured at Long House, an Anasazi Indian site dating from approximately AD 1300. Aircraft overflights were performed by RF-4C, A-7, and B-52 aircraft at altitudes ranging from 60 to over 300 meters AGL. Seismometers on the Long House structure recorded the site response. None of the overflights produced site responses exceeding established criteria for archaeological sites, taken to be a peak vector sum wall velocity of 1.3 mm/sec.

Download or read book Jet Fighters Coloring Book written by John Batchelor and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-four accurately rendered illustrations with captions capture the exciting details of a low-flying U.S. F-117 Stealth fighter, an aircraft carrier-based F-18, a Tornado GR-1, a Russian-built MiG-15, and other historic planes.

Download or read book Military Low Flying in the UK written by Michael Leek and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK has some of the most dramatic landscapes for NATO pilots to exercise the increasingly important military art of high-speed low flying. It also offers splendid opportunities for photography of close-up dramatic shots taken from the hillsides and mountains of Wales, Scotland and other steep terrain within the UK. Pilots training for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other potential war zones, learn their skills flying through the valleys of the UK at near subsonic speed. For the legions of enthusiastic aviation photographers, thousands of whom can be seen at air shows, it provides ideal viewpoints.This book contains firsthand accounts from the pilots and expert advice for the photographer, together with stunning close-up color photos of the aircraft flying at eye-level and sometimes below the camera. It has the full support of the Royal Air Force and articles by the leading photographers in this field.

Download or read book The Pressure Disturbance on the Ground Due to a Low flying Aircraft written by Richard Norcross Cheever and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contact Flying written by Jim Dulin and published by Contact Flying. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike conventional aviation authors and instructors I do not teach primary flying, crop dusting, pipeline patrol flying, bush flying, helicopter medical evacuation flying, and air to ground gunnery using instruments inside the aircraft as the primary situational awareness tool. Rather I teach Dutch rolls, slow flight and stalls over the runway, the energy management turns, use of ground effect on all takeoffs, the brisk walk apparent rate of closure approach, hover taxi in fixed wing aircraft, and low level low power mountain flying using sights, sounds, smells, and kinetics. Sight is used 99.9% of the time looking at the ground. Airspeed, nor any other instrument is used in takeoff or landing. This text teaches the art of flying in the old style at low level using ground references. Its author has over sixteen thousand hours of flying Army helicopters, crop dusters, and pipeline patrol airplanes at three feet to five hundred feet above ground level.

Download or read book Visual Detection Probability written by Shirley Blackett and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Search for Means to Detect Distant Low flying Aircraft written by Eugene W. Pike and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vulnerability of Low Flying Aircraft to Forward Area Fire written by Jack C. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Avoidance Policy for Low Flying Military Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Airplane Flying Handbook Faa H 8083 3b Full Version written by Federal Aviation Administration and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airplane Flying Handbook Front Matter Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Flight Training Chapter 2: Ground Operations Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers Chapter 4: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (PDF) Chapter 5: Takeoffs and Departure Climbs Chapter 6: Ground Reference Maneuvers Chapter 7: Airport Traffic Patterns Chapter 8: Approaches and Landings Chapter 9: Performance Maneuvers Chapter 10: Night Operations Chapter 11: Transition to Complex Airplanes Chapter 12: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes Chapter 13: Transition to Tailwheel Airplanes Chapter 14: Transition to Turbopropeller-Powered Airplanes Chapter 15: Transition to Jet-Powered Airplanes Chapter 16: Transition to Light Sport Airplanes (LSA) Chapter 17: Emergency Procedures Glossary Index