Author: Thomas W. Young
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift. This book tells the story of one Air National Guard airlift wing as related by its members. The 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard consisted of a squadron of 12 C-130 cargo planes, their crews, and all the supporting sections--in all, more than 1,200 people. The author, a former Associated Press reporter turned aviator, flew as an active member of that unit and interviewed nearly 70 servicemen and women for this book. They include aircrews who dodged heat-seeking missiles, mechanics who made combat repairs, flight nurses who treated and transported the wounded, even two motor pool truck drivers struck by a roadside bomb.
The Speed of Heat
Author: Thomas W. Young
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift. This book tells the story of one Air National Guard airlift wing as related by its members. The 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard consisted of a squadron of 12 C-130 cargo planes, their crews, and all the supporting sections--in all, more than 1,200 people. The author, a former Associated Press reporter turned aviator, flew as an active member of that unit and interviewed nearly 70 servicemen and women for this book. They include aircrews who dodged heat-seeking missiles, mechanics who made combat repairs, flight nurses who treated and transported the wounded, even two motor pool truck drivers struck by a roadside bomb.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift. This book tells the story of one Air National Guard airlift wing as related by its members. The 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard consisted of a squadron of 12 C-130 cargo planes, their crews, and all the supporting sections--in all, more than 1,200 people. The author, a former Associated Press reporter turned aviator, flew as an active member of that unit and interviewed nearly 70 servicemen and women for this book. They include aircrews who dodged heat-seeking missiles, mechanics who made combat repairs, flight nurses who treated and transported the wounded, even two motor pool truck drivers struck by a roadside bomb.
Report
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies
Author: Holt Ashley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486648990
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This excellent, innovative reference offers a wealth of useful information and a solid background in the fundamentals of aerodynamics. Fluid mechanics, constant density inviscid flow, singular perturbation problems, viscosity, thin-wing and slender body theories, drag minimalization, and other essentials are addressed in a lively, literate manner and accompanied by diagrams.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486648990
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This excellent, innovative reference offers a wealth of useful information and a solid background in the fundamentals of aerodynamics. Fluid mechanics, constant density inviscid flow, singular perturbation problems, viscosity, thin-wing and slender body theories, drag minimalization, and other essentials are addressed in a lively, literate manner and accompanied by diagrams.
Loads on Thin Wings at Transonic Speeds
Author: Don D. Davis (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Transonic
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Transonic
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Effect of Longitudinal Wings Position on the Pressure Characteristics at Transonic Speeds of a 45© Sweptback Wing-fuselage Model
Author: William Solomon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Transonic
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Transonic
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Span Loadings Due to Wing Twist at Transonic and Supersonic Speeds
Author: Frederick C. Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamic load
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Two similar tapered sweptback plan forms with the same two spanwise variations of twist have been tested in the Mach number range from 0.8 to 2.0. The test results showed, in general, rather good agreement with theoretical predictions of the incremental span loadings due to twist for zero angle of attack. The measured incremental span loadings due to twist generally diminished with increasing angle of attack through the Mach number range. At a Mach number of 0.9, the incremental loadings progressively vanished from the tip inboard with increasing angle of attack. For the highest angles of attack (about 20 degrees) at Mach number 0.9, there was no difference in the span loadings of the flat and twisted wings. At a higher supersonic speeds, a similar vanishing at the tips of the incremental loading due to twist was starting at the highest angles of attack (near 20 degrees).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamic load
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Two similar tapered sweptback plan forms with the same two spanwise variations of twist have been tested in the Mach number range from 0.8 to 2.0. The test results showed, in general, rather good agreement with theoretical predictions of the incremental span loadings due to twist for zero angle of attack. The measured incremental span loadings due to twist generally diminished with increasing angle of attack through the Mach number range. At a Mach number of 0.9, the incremental loadings progressively vanished from the tip inboard with increasing angle of attack. For the highest angles of attack (about 20 degrees) at Mach number 0.9, there was no difference in the span loadings of the flat and twisted wings. At a higher supersonic speeds, a similar vanishing at the tips of the incremental loading due to twist was starting at the highest angles of attack (near 20 degrees).
Speed Bonnie Boat
Author:
Publisher: Kelpies
ISBN: 9781782503675
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Sung throughout the world, the Skye Boat Song evocatively brings alive the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's famous journey from the Outer Hebrides to Skye, off Scotland's west coast, after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden.
Publisher: Kelpies
ISBN: 9781782503675
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Sung throughout the world, the Skye Boat Song evocatively brings alive the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's famous journey from the Outer Hebrides to Skye, off Scotland's west coast, after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden.
Flying Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Energy versus Carbon Dioxide
Author: Cornel Stan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662641623
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. Electric drive of cars and machines instead of combustion engines do not solve the conflict between energy and carbon dioxide, more efficient ways are described. The book presents hopeful forms of energy conversion without carbon dioxide such as photovoltaics, wind power and hydropower, with their advantages, but also with their disadvantages. More promissing is the energy generation maintaining climate neutrality: The water cycle nature-electrolysis-machine-nature is compared with the carbon dioxide cycle nature- photosynthesis in plant-machine-nature. The results of this analysis are largely surprising from such perspective.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662641623
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. Electric drive of cars and machines instead of combustion engines do not solve the conflict between energy and carbon dioxide, more efficient ways are described. The book presents hopeful forms of energy conversion without carbon dioxide such as photovoltaics, wind power and hydropower, with their advantages, but also with their disadvantages. More promissing is the energy generation maintaining climate neutrality: The water cycle nature-electrolysis-machine-nature is compared with the carbon dioxide cycle nature- photosynthesis in plant-machine-nature. The results of this analysis are largely surprising from such perspective.
Loads on Wings Due to Spoilers at Subsonic and Transonic Speeds
Author: Alexander D. Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamic load
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamic load
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description