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This new third edition of ‘Meteorology for Pilots’ has been modified to satisfy all aspects of the meteorological requirements necessary to be JAR compliant. It also discusses the latest data concern …

In ‘Tom Swift circling the globe; or, The daring cruise of the Air Monarch, ‘ Victor Appleton meticulously crafts a thrilling adventure story filled with technological marvels and daring escapades. T …

The present volume on Mechanical Flight consists, as the title-page indicates, of two parts. The first, dealing with the long and notable series of early experiments with small models, was written al …

Was Keith Harris’s Orville really named after the first-ever flyer? What exactly is a ‘Spitfire’? Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an airline? These are th …

This book puts the reader in the pilot’s seat for a ‘day at the office’ unlike any other. The Smell of Kerosene tells the dramatic story of a NASA research pilot who logged over 11, 000 flight hours …

In the cut-throat world of low-cost airlines, competition is the name of the game. Not only up in the air but also on the ground. Crash and Burn is an insider’s tale of the South African airline indu …

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today’s air travellers, but sorely missed by some. During the …

Nellie Bly’s ‘Around the World in Seventy-Two Days’ chronicles her record-breaking journey, inspired by Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Days, ‘ as she circumnavigates the globe in just over …

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more e …

Despite the fact that year 2018 has recently begun, it has already been marked by a number of important events in Cosmonautics. Many important events also await us in the near future. Humanity is bec …