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Codes, ciphers, and cartography : math goes to war / by Burrows, Terry,1963-(CARDINAL)415178;
Age 9-12.Grade 4 to 6.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : math at war -- Navigation -- Military surveying -- Codes and ciphers -- Codebreaking -- Ballistics -- Codes in WWII -- Breaking the Enigma code -- Aeronautics -- Logistics -- Statistics and Records -- Weapons and warfare timeline.930LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Ciphers; Cryptography; Cartography; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge / by Illman, Paul E.(CARDINAL)508138;
Earning your wings: rewards and responsibilities -- Principles of flight -- Airplanes and engines -- Flight instruments -- Airplane performance -- Weather -- Navigation -- The airspace system -- Airports -- VFR flight planning -- Emergency procedures -- Wake turbulence -- Medical facts for pilots -- Practical operating practices -- Appendix: quickie quiz answers.
Subjects: Airplanes; Aeronautics.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The complete idiot's guide to flying and gliding / by Lane, Bill,1961-(CARDINAL)661331; Jaffe, Azriela.(CARDINAL)634314;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Aeronautics; Aeronautics; Flight; Gliding and soaring;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The uncharted flight of Olivia West [large print] / by Ackerman, Sara,author.(CARDINAL)417624;
"1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for one of the pilots, before setting out on a harrowing journey that some will not survive. 1987. Wren Summers is down to her last dime when she learns she has inherited a remote piece of land on the Big Island with nothing on it but a dilapidated barn and an overgrown mac nut grove. She plans on selling it and using the money to live on, but she is drawn in by the mysterious objects kept in the barn by her late great-uncle -- clues to a tragic piece of aviation history lost to time. Determined to find out what really happened all those years ago, Wren enlists the help of residents at a nearby retirement home to uncover Olivia's story piece by piece. What she discovers is more earth-shattering, and closer to home, than she could have ever imagined."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Dole Air Race (1927); Airplane racing; Women air pilots; Aeronautics; Aeronautics;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 28
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Into unknown skies [sound recording] : an unlikely team, a daring race, and the first flight around the world / by Randall, David K.,author.(CARDINAL)400385; Verner, Adam,narrator.(CARDINAL)564961;
Read by Adam Verner."In the early 1920s, America's faith in aviation was in shambles. Twenty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, most Americans believed airplanes were for delivering the mail or performing daredevil stunts in front of crowds. The dream of commercial air travel remained just that. Even the American military was a skeptic. All that changed with a single race in 1924--it was a race to become the first to circle the globe in an airplane, pitting a team of underdog American pilots against the best aviators in the world from England, Italy, Portugal, France, and Argentina. Rooted in the same spirit that pushed early twentieth-century explorers to attempt crossings of the Antarctic ice or locate the source of the Nile, this race was an adventure unlike anything the world had seen before. The obstacles were daunting-from experimental planes, to dangerous landings in uncharted territory, to the simple navigational gauges that could lead pilots hundreds of miles off course. Failure seemed all but guaranteed-the suspense less about who would win than how many would perish for the honor of being the first."--Title from container.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Flights around the world.; Aeronautics; Aeronautics; Air pilots;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hot air balloons : history, evolution and great adventures / by Becker, Jean.(CARDINAL)591659;
From the Montgolfier brothers to the pilots of the future, from the epic exploits of Bertrand Piccard and Steve Fossett, who made the first around-the-world navigation in a revolutionary high-tech hot-air balloon, to the 'impossible' shapes of modern airships, this volume illustrates various topics in aerostatistics.
Subjects: Aeronautical sports.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The limitless sky : Air Force science and technology contributions to the nation / by Levis, Alexander H.(CARDINAL)273678; Bedford, John C.(CARDINAL)273676; Davis, Sandra.(CARDINAL)273677; Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)(CARDINAL)218224;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254).
Subjects: United States. Air Force; Aeronautics, Military; Aeronautics, Military; Aeronautics, Military; Technology transfer; Military research;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How fighter pilots use math / by Hense, Mary,author.(CARDINAL)496592;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Air acrobatics -- Fighter pilot gear -- Helmets and cockpits -- Expensive machines -- Air Force fighter planes -- Marine fighter planes -- Navy fighter planes -- Fueling an aircraft -- In-flight fueling -- Supersonic -- Stealth -- Navigation -- If you want to be a fighter pilot -- Answer key -- Glossary -- To learn more -- Index.You're flying a high-performance plane that can go faster than the speed of sound and that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. You need to bring it down just right to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean. In this situation and in many others, fighter pilots use math to accomplish their missions.
Subjects: Aeronautics; Fighter pilots; Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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First crossing of the Polar Sea / by Amundsen, Roald,1872-1928.(CARDINAL)150825; Ellsworth, Lincoln,1880-1951.(CARDINAL)166026;
Plans and preparations.--The hangar and the mooring-masts, by J. Hover.--Waiting at Svalbard.--From Rome to Svalbard, by G. Amundsen.--Ready for the start.--The members of the expedition.--Across the Polar Sea.--The journey home.--Back to Norway.--The navigation over the Polar Sea, by H. Riiser-Larsen.--Weather and weather warnings during the polar flight, by F. Malmgren.--The "Norge's" radio station and the radio service on board, by B. Gottwaldt.
Subjects: Aeronautics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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How does it fly? : the science of flight / by Rees, Peter,1966-(CARDINAL)485064;
A guide to airplane flight discusses checking luggage, the air-traffic control tower, what the pilot does, taking off, how airplanes stay up, navigation, safety, and narrowly averted disasters.IG930LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Aeronautics; Flight;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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