Aviation

This book is an inspection guide for amateur-built aircraft. It contains over 200 pictures of issues found in these aircraft. It does not show how to repair them. If you own and are maintaining your Van's RV Aircraft, we recommend purchasing the newly released (2023) Maintenance Handbook for Van's RV Aircraft which shows the repairs for most of the issues shown in this Nuts Tight Guide, instead of this book.

The 319th Bomb Squadron of the 90th Bombardment Group known as The Jolly Rogers was a member of the 5th Army Air Force in WWII.They fought the Imperial Japanese military throughout the South West Pacific. The 90th Bombardment Group Heavy, was commanded by Lt. General George C. Kenney. The 319th Bombardment Squadron, nicknamed; Asterperious, is one of four bomb squadrons of the 90th Bombardment Group. This squadron made history in New Guinea from 1943 Through 1944 in many critical battle campaigns including Wewak, Biak Island, Rabaul and many more. This picture book originally published in 1944 provides readers with a snap shot of life on the front lines during those dangerous times in 19 ...

One boy and his airplane. Chip is a sixteen year old boy with a Piper J-3 Cub seaplane named Li'l Windy. He knows how to fly. He's been flying with his father for years. But now he is alone and the sky becomes his classroom. Though he does survive, every flight is an adventure, a great learning experience, and excellent preparation for the boy who wants to become a professional pilot. In fact you may wonder why commercial airline pilots are not required to have this kind of background. It's fun, but it's learning the hard way, discovering things as tangible as aerodynamics and as deep as how to live an entire lifetime. If you have a young person who's not all tha ...

Orphaned by the age of 10, Jim Turner was left without a permanent home, bouncing between living with family members in Upstate SC and Transylvania County, NC until he was drafted into the US Army in 1943. He originally volunteered to be a paratrooper but instead found himself on the way to Walker Air Field after graduating parachute rigging school - to join the “Battle of Kansas” in preparation for the new untested B-29 Superfortress. There he became a Hellbird. Then it was off to India, where Jim did triple duty as a parachute rigger, runway inspector and volunteer tail gunner. After surviving a crash in Burma during a mission and almost starving to death, Jim and the rest of the Hellb ...

From the Landplane Preface > ...this Guide attempts to present the essentials of safe and technically sound flight testing to the E-AB pilot community in a practical, easy to understand way. The flight test topics deemed important to E-AB flight testing derive directly from NTSB recommendations and latest FAA guidance. They represent a mixture of test philosophy and how-to-do-it flight test techniques subjects with an overall emphasis on best practices and safe test conduct. From the Landplane and Seaplane Preface > … there are differences in test procedures between landplanes and seaplanes and they deal with their ground and water handling regardless of whether or not the airplanes ...

Flying Escapades- tragic, hair-raising and hilarious flying stories. This book highlights flying experiences that the author has had and those of others that he met on his journey. The stories range from an aircraft getting blown off the runway in North Carolina to a Learjet descending through a snow storm in northern British Columbia, Canada with a flight crew ignoring the minimum altitude required. Another story deals with a tragic crash on a stormy night with a Learjet 35 doing a Medivac mission to an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. At night and in bad weather, why did the pilots make a simple mistake that cost them and the three nurses on board their lives? Th ...

This book is a culmination of over 45 years of experience working on and maintaining all types of Van's RV aircraft. It should be the ultimate reference guide for you or your mechanic to inspect and maintain the aircraft throughout its life. Using the checklist and accompanying pictures will be almost as good as having the author working over your shoulder. This book contains 151 pages and 443 pictures. It is spiral bound to enhance use in the shop. The purchaser will be able to see the issue and how to repair it. It is essential for Van's RV and Lycoming piston engine owners who do their own maintenance. We recommend this Maintenance Handbook over Vic's Are Your Nuts tight inspection ...

In this booklet, the author, a U.S. Air Force Cold War veteran, offers interesting color photos of "roundels" (the insignia on an aircraft's wings & fuselage) that display the country of origin...sometimes, in striking national colors... Nowadays, air forces from the Royal Netherlands Air Force to the U.S. Air Force often display subdued roundels (as a form of camouflage)... Here's hoping the reader enjoys the interesting, sometimes colorful, world of military aircraft insignia; they are used by large nations but also other smaller nations like Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia...& many others!

If you are thinking about purchasing an amateur-built aircraft, this is the guide you need. It can be used by you, or given to your inspector. The book contains over 200 pictures illustrating common problem areas, along with a checklist and hints for both the seller and the purchaser. It is an invaluable resource to ensure that you will successfully enter the exciting world of amateur-built aviation. All too many times during a pre- buy inspection Vic has heard the seller comment "I wish I knew of you when I bought the airplane." So, after having inspected over a thousand amateur-built aircraft, Vic felt he had enough data and pictures to share with the aviation community so that others ...

Squadron Leader Jeff West's War Diaries 1941 - 1945 Casualties en masse, barmaids, mateship, alcoholism, culture shock, boredom, illness and a love of aviation… From flying in formation with Sir Douglas Bader, Sir Alan Smith, Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson and Sir Hugh Dundas in the elite RAF Tangmere 616 squadron, running from exploding bombs as the Luftwaffe devastated Malta, to dealing with plane malfunctions and pilot error in the deserts of Sudan and Egypt. Suffering from dysentery one day and a hangover the next, Jeff delivers his escapades combining wit and heart throughout the glaring naive eyes of a young New Zealand pilot thrust into a life of adventure he could only dr ...