Showing titles in Transportation

Steuere moderne Drohnen als absoluter Anfänger fehlerfrei und lerne in diesem Technik-Ratgeber die sichere Flugpraxis. Wenn du ein faszinierendes Outdoor-Hobby starten möchtest, aber Respekt vor der komplexen Elektronik hast, nimmt dir dieser Leitfaden jede Unsicherheit. Mach dein Wochenende...

Dominez l'examen CDL et sécurisez votre avenir de chauffeur grâce à cette préparation audio immersive et stratégique. Idéal pour optimiser vos temps de trajet, ce guide d'étude interactif transforme chaque minute d'écoute en une session de révision active et rassurante. Que vous...

Diese packende Biografie zeigt, wie zäher Erfindergeist und familiäre Rivalität den Traum vom Fliegen wahr machten. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln, lässt dich dieses intensive Hörerlebnis direkt in die staubigen Werkstätten des Mittleren Westens eintauchen. Spüre die knisternde...

Ein herrenloses Schiff auf dem Atlantik wird in diesem historischen Sachbuch zur fesselnden, wahren Spurensuche. Perfekt für das abendliche Entspannen oder das tägliche Pendeln, nimmt dich diese ruhige und atmosphärische Erzählung mit in die raue Welt der Handelsschifffahrt des 19...

歴史に名を刻む世紀の発明は、決して孤高の天才による閃きではなく、幾度もの手痛い失敗と強靭な家族の絆、そして泥臭い試行錯誤の末に生み出された。通勤の車内や静かな夜のひとときに、心を落ち着かせながらじっ...

Sichere dir deinen Erfolg in der CDL-Theorieprüfung mit dieser fundierten Prüfungsvorbereitung für Berufskraftfahrer. Ob beim täglichen Pendeln oder beim fokussierten Lernen am Abend, dieser beruhigende und zugleich motivierende Audiokurs verwandelt deine Zeit in ein hochwirksames Training...

Meistere den Umstieg auf die Elektromobilität mit einem praxisnahen Ratgeber, der technische Zweifel sofort auflöst. Ob du gerade zur Arbeit pendelst oder den nächsten Autokauf planst, hier erhältst du fundiertes Wissen ohne komplizierten Fachjargon. Erlebe eine erfrischend klare Reise durch...

Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander sits among exalted company in the history of Australian motorsport, as a dominant figure in the modern era of the annual 'Great Race' at Mount Panorama. A lanky kid from Perth obsessed by going fast, Garth achieved skill and speed in a race car that...

A searing memoir about one woman’s road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her on her journey Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the...

Welcome to Bernie Collins' world. Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire to win. On race day it's the Team Strategist who calls the shots, working under immense pressure to make split second and crucial decisions. Through her eyes and experience as a Performance Engineer and Head of Race Strategy, Bernie takes you behind the scenes of a Formula 1 team - both in the factory and at the races - to uncover what it takes to put two Formula 1 cars on the grid and go racing.

Former US Navy Top Gun Kevin Sullivan, captain of the ill-fated Perth-bound QF72, breaks his silence to give a gripping account of how a rogue computer went 'psycho', causing the Airbus A330 he was piloting to pitch down, nose first, towards the Indian Ocean—twice. Unlike other well-publicised near air disasters, the plane carrying 315 passengers and crew was out of control, a g-force of –8 propelling anyone and anything untethered through the cabin roof. It took the extraordinary skill and presence of mind of the veteran Top Gun to wrestle back control of the plane.

As a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent nearly two decades crossing the skies of our planet, touching down in the cities he imagined as a child. He experiences our metropolises in short layover visits that repeat over weeks, months or even years, giving him a unique perspective on the urbanisation of the world. In this intimate yet expansive work that weaves travelogue with memoir, Mark celebrates the cities he has come to know and love, through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left.

Kelly Johnson designed the Blackbird, a plane that flew non-stop from London to Los Angeles in less than four hours, outracing the sun and landing four hours before it had taken off, a remarkable feat - and this was more than 35 years ago. Johnson was the innovative genius behind Lockheed's "Skunk Works", and played a leading role in the development of more than forty aircraft, including some of America's most sophisticated planes such as the Constellation, Shooting Star, F-104, U-2, and the SR-71 Blackbird.

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps. All 144 passengers and six crew members were killed. In the ensuing days, a picture of the flight's harrowing final moments began to emerge. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude, a 27-year-old first officer named Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, took control of the plane, and deliberately caused its descent.

*GLIBA Regional Bestseller* “Narrative history at its best.” —Air Mail The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before...

Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful...

In early May 2005, Captain Tom Tighe and first mate, Loch Reidy, of the sailboat Almeisan welcomed three new crew members, two men and a woman, for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. While Tighe and Reidy had made the journey countless times, the rest of the crew were...

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and...

The "unsinkable" Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French "sidewalk cafe," private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board. Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic...

Amelia Earhart’s autobiographical book The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation covers Earhart’s life through May 20-21, 1932, “when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland. The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes...and stirred such public adulation that she confided, ‘I’ll be glad when the zoo part is over.’” (ANB)