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  • Test Pilot

    An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft

    by Chris Taylor ...
    An elite test pilot recounts his life on the cutting-edge of aviation, flying everything from homebuilt airplanes to helicopters and fighter jets.Over his long career as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both airplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor has flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft. He is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scratch One Flattop

    The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea

    by Robert C. Stern ...
    A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other.By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Air Traffic Controller

    by Diane Lindsey Reeves ...
    Series series 21st Century Skills Library: Future-Ready Careers: Jobs AI Can't Do
    Does air traffic control really need the human touch? Or can AI take over? Readers will learn about air traffic control as a career, what the job entails, what training is needed, and how they can set themselves up for success in the field. This title digs into what AI can and can't do for air traffic control, and how humans will continue to play an important role in directing our highways in the ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • Air Carrier Operations

    by Mark J. Holt, Phillip J. Poynor ...
    This is not AI-generated content. The contents were written and verified by subject matter experts from Aviation Supplies & Academics, an 85-year-old aviation company. Look for the ASA wings to ensure you are purchasing a reliable publication.Whether a Part 121 airline or a Part 135 charter operator, a company lives or dies by its compliance with the applicable Federal Aviation Regulations, or ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Factors of Victory

    Adm. Joseph Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower

    by Thomas Wildenberg ...
    Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves (1872–1948) took command of the U.S. Navy’s nascent carrier arm during a critical period, transforming it from a small auxiliary command in support of the battle line into a powerful strike force. Until the carrier commanders of World War II proved their mettle, Reeves’s expertise in the use of the aircraft carrier in naval tactics was unequaled. All the Factors of Victory ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Air Traffic Controller

    by Ellen Labrecque ...
    Series series 21st Century Skills Library: Cool Vocational Careers
    Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as an air traffic controller. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Okinawa 1945

    The Royal Navy's biggest carrier campaign

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 59 - Air Campaign
    This fully illustrated study explains the British Pacific Fleet's campaign against the Japanese in the Sakishima Islands, its overlooked role in the battle for Okinawa.The invasion of Okinawa was, famously, the culmination of the United States' island-hopping campaign. Less well known is the fact that it was also the greatest campaign of the British Pacific Fleet's war against Japan, fought by ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • South Atlantic 1982

    The carrier campaign in the Falklands War

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 51 - Air Campaign
    A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War.On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible sailed for the South Atlantic at the heart of the task force that would retake the Falkland Islands, known to Argentina as the Islas Malvinas. Air power was essential to the operation, and some analysts considered the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Sustaining the Carrier War

    The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific

    by Stan Fisher ...
    Series series Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
    **Winner of the 2023 John R. Lyman Award in Maritime History, North American Naval HistoryA 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Honorable Mention**The ability of the United States Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the U.S. victory over Japan in the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942

    Five Operations That Tested a New Dimension of American Air Power

    by David Lee Russell ...
     After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America's fast carrier task forces, with their aircraft squadrons and powerful support warships, went on the offensive. Under orders from Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, the newly appointed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, took the fight to the Japanese, using island raids to slow their advance in the Pacific ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • South China Sea 1945

    Task Force 38's bold carrier rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 36 - Air Campaign
    A history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters.As 1945 opened, Japan was fighting defensively everywhere. As the Allies drew closer to the Home Islands, risks of Japanese air and sea attack on the US Navy carrier force increased. US forces wanted to take the island of Luzon ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Destined for Glory

    Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower

    by Thomas Wildenberg ...
    On 4 June 1942, three squadrons of U.S. Navy Dauntless dive bombers destroyed Japan's carrier force sent to neutralize Midway, changing the course of the war in the Pacific. As Thomas Wildenberg convincingly demonstrates in this book, the key ingredient to the navy's success at Midway was the planning and training devoted to the tactic of dive bombing over the previous seventeen years. Examining ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD