Edge Of Flight
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Author | : Kate Jaimet |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459801628 |
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Edge of Flight is the toughest rock-climbing route Vanisha has ever faced. She has one last chance to conquer it before she moves to Vermont to start university. University is a sore point for Vanisha, who yearns for a career in the outdoors but feels pressured by her mother to earn an academic degree. Trying to put school out of her mind, she heads to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with her buddies Rusty and Jeb for a final weekend of climbing and camping. Deep in the woods, they stumble on an illegal marijuana plantation, and the gang of bikers who guard it. When Jeb is shot by the bikers, Vanisha alone must get help—and to do so, she must climb Edge of Flight. As she confronts her insecurities on the cliff face and in the woods, Vanisha gains a new resolve and the self-confidence to choose her own path in life.
Author | : Thom van Dooren |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0231537441 |
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A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Author | : Lisa Heathfield |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1541526112 |
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Originally published: London: Electric Monkey, 2017.
Author | : James Fallows |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2008-11-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786741759 |
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The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel: NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years: in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the new environment of air travel.
Author | : Jeff Olson |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-11-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1626340463 |
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Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success & Happiness
Author | : Dennis R. Jenkins |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2010-12-08 |
Genre | : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic |
ISBN | : 9781470025854 |
Download X-15 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic flight that was invaluable to aeronautics and to developers of the space shuttle. This book describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them.-publisher description.
Author | : Grant Finnegan |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-04-27 |
Genre | : Airplanes |
ISBN | : 9781717485632 |
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Pacific International Airlines Flight PI019—Flight 19—leaves Honolulu airport on a routine trip to Los Angeles on Thursday, January 17th, 2019. Two hours in, with 210 people on-board, the plane vanishes into thin air. An exhaustive search finds no trace of Flight 19, its passengers, or its crew, and the disappearance becomes modern aviation’s greatest mystery. Five years later, an incoming plane asks for permission to enter LAX airspace. But there’s something unusual about this apparently routine request. It’s the missing Pacific International flight. What’s more, those on-board don’t yet know the year is now 2024. The last five years have passed them by in a matter of minutes. Flight 19 takes you through the months just after these people learn of their fate: their husbands and wives remarried, houses sold, jobs lost, possessions given away or disposed of, and loved ones dead and buried. This is a story that will touch everyone who cares about the life they have. Their jobs and possessions. The places they call home. The people they love. Read Flight 19 and see how the passengers and crew react when they lose it all.
Author | : K. J. Taylor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101476966 |
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Although he was once chosen as a griffin's companion, Arren Cardockson was reviled, betrayed, and ultimately killed. Brought back to life by a power beyond his understanding, Arren flees for the frozen sanctuary of the North. With the man-eating griffin Skandar by his side, and an entire country hunting him, Arren has little hope of reaching the place of his ancestry and of lifting his curse. But then he comes across a wild woman who may hold the key to making his lifeless heart beat once more.
Author | : Curt A. Holzhauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Aerofoils |
ISBN | : |
Download Wind-tunnel and Flight Investigations of the Use of Leading-edge Area Suction for the Purpose of Increasing the Maximum Lift Coefficient of a 35 ̊swept-wing Airplane Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Jennifer Fenn |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2017-07-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626727597 |
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Jennifer Fenn's debut novel inspired by true events, about a teenage boy who has stolen—and crashed—not one, but three airplanes. And each time he’s walked away unscathed. Who is Robert Jackson Kelly? Is he a juvenile delinquent? A criminal mastermind? A folk hero? One thing is clear: Robert always defies what people think of him. And now, the kid who failed at school, relationships, and almost everything in life, is determined to successfully steal and land a plane. Told as an investigation into Robert’s psyche, the narrative includes multiple points of view as well as documentary elements like emails, official records, and interviews with people who knew Robert. Ultimately, Flight Risk is a thrilling story about one teenager who is determined to find a moment of transcendence after everyone else has written him off as lost.