A collection of vintage photographs remembering the Cessna Aircraft Company, its military and civilian aircraft, selected aircraft options, original cockpits, and selected press releases from 1940 to the 1960s.
Turing the pages of Vintage Airliners transports a reader from the first commercial passenger aircraft developed from WWI bombers to the jet age of the Comet and 707. Along the journey you'll step back to the days of the Ford Tri-Motor and Fokker, the Curtiss Condor and Kingbird, see the Boeing 247 and its competitor the Douglas DC-1 and DC-3. You'll see other airliners before and after WWII plus regional aircraft like the Martin 2-0-2 and Beechcraft. You'll gain a perspective of how airline service radically changed with the introduction of the Constellation, the Stratocruiser and the family of DC-4 and 6 airliners. Vintage Airliners highlights an era. It was an era of rapid expansion, propeller driven aircraft and change. The airliner story unfolds with over 130 vintage interior and exterior aircraft photographs. Additional photographs of selected airport towers, radar traffic control and airline promotional materials add to the reader's adventure.
As you turn the pages of this book, you will see vintage photographs of more than 40 different bombers, dive bombers and fighter bombers. The photographers captured the aircraft in action, with their ground eco-systems and facing in flight challenges. The majority of the photographs have not been seen in decades. Some sample descriptions include a B-24 equipped with turbines or a B-24 painted to discourage Japanese suicide aircraft, the first B-52A being delivered and a diagram of how Boeing subcontracted elements of the B-17 to maximize production among others.You will gain a sense of the development that occurred in the field and see how many different bombers were needed during this 25 year evolution. America faced different enemy threats during WWII, Korea and the Cold War and addressed each with different technology. The first aircraft presented barely reached a 200 mph maximum speed but by 1960 American bombers were flying at Mach 2. These aircraft and their pilots maintained American Power into the age of intercontinental missiles.
For many aviation enthusiasts an aircraft cockpit represents a portal to freedom the open sky. Opening this book's cover lets a reader step back in time over its 111 pages. Readers see large cockpit detail photographs, often with an aircraft view insert, and supporting text that provide a glimpse into many obscure or forgotten plane details. Over 100 different aircraft, spanning aeronautical advances from a Wright Brothers' 1911 Model B to a 1964 Cherokee, are pictured. There is an emphasis on aircraft of the mid-1940s through 1950s which includes general aviation, military aircraft, racers and commercial airliners. Unique cockpit photographs of autogyros, operational flying cars and manufacturer prototypes are included. Professional fliers, new pilots, aviation enthusiasts, model builders and youngsters who fly with Mom & Dad will find hours of enjoyment visualizing flight with yesterday's flight controls.
Sadly Strange is poetry of an unusual type. Strange and somewhat hauntingly sad. Digging deep into hidden emotions. Poems tethered to the confines of the mind.
Physiology's classic text continues to uphold its rich tradition-presenting key physiology concepts in a remarkably clear and engaging manner. Guyton & Hall's Textbook of Medical Physiology covers all of the major systems in the human body, while emphasizing system interaction, homeostasis, and pathophysiology. This very readable, easy-to-follow, and thoroughly updated, 11th Edition features a new full-color layout, short chapters, clinical vignettes, and shaded summary tables that allow for easy comprehension of the material. The smart way to study Elsevier titles with STUDENT CONSULT will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online Perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each STUDENT CONSULT title comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, USMLE style questions, and online note-taking to enhance your learning experience.
Originally published in 1939, this book presents a comprehensive study of hydrophthalmia, also known as buphthalmia, incorporating information on causes, treatment and outlook as they were understood at the time of publication. An approach based on comparative anatomy and pathology is used, with analysis of Australian fauna such as ornithorhyncus, echidna, pseudochirus and dasyurus incorporated into the study. The text also provides descriptions of all the different methods of operative treatment which had been tried, with a thorough analysis of the results obtained by various surgeons. Numerous illustrative figures are included throughout. This book will be of interest to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine and ophthalmology.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
An imaginary, utterly absorbing record of the investigations of the Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of an unnamed state senate into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, who has come to the town of Pequot on what he says is urgent defense business. The hearings develop the suspense of a bizarre trial. It soon becomes clear that Mr. Jones buys for his corporation children of a certain sort, and that he is eager to acquire a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, who manifests the breathtaking, prickly, sometimes obnoxious, but also deeply moving precocity of a potential genius. The dramatic conflicts exposed during the hearing revolve around the questions of exactly why Mr. Jones’s company buys children, and whether he will succeed in buying Barry. The Child Buyeris a biting commentary on some aspects of American education, on the uses of high intelligence, and on the means of defending democracy. Mr. Hersey makes fine use of the classical weapons of satire—humor and high spirits, sweet dream and nightmare, grotesqueness in the heart of normalcy—to attack not any single theory of education, but the notions that education can be an exact science; that superior minds can be set free by a national crash program; that children can be regarded as weapons; and that talent can be processed and stored for profit and defense. Although these extraordinary hearings end in a kind of horror, involving the slide into corruption or rascality or apathy of almost everyone connected with them, nevertheless the book leaves in the reader’s mind a powerful affirmation—a case for individuality, freedom of thought, integrity, faith in the young, and, above all, a better understanding of human needs in a darkling world.
Why are some of America's best and most respected jockeys suddenly losing big races? And who would kill a ninety-two-year-old bookmaker? McEvoy has created a winning protagonist in Chicago turf writer Matt O'Connor, who has an abundance of friends in mostly low places and his finger firmly on the pulse of the national horseracing scene.... [He...
Women in all facets of the horse-racing industry share their stories. The updated edition includes an interview with horse-racing pioneer Diane Crump, the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
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