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A fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com.
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, however, you can see that the grand theater of air travel is actually fascinating. From the intricate design of airport architecture
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How do ships float? How do airplanes fly? What is jet lag? And why is it a different time in Tokyo than it is here? The answers to all those questions and more are in science ... and in this book. Travel is the way that we discover our world, but we would not get very far without science helping us along. And it s not just travel science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science is a part of our lives in SCIENCE 24...
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"In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience since September 11, 2001. With wry humor and unique insight, Gerchick takes us past the jargon, technicalities, and all-is-well platitudes to expose the new normal of air travel: from the packed planes and myriad hassles of everyday flying to...
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Wybierz się ze stewardesami - tym razem w podróż do ich świata! Zawód stewardesy to obok modelki jedna z najbardziej pożądanych profesji. Ale to też praca w szczególnych warunkach, podobnie jak np. praca górnika. Stewardesy są oczami i uszami pilotów, bez nich żaden pasażer nie może wejść na pokład samolotu. Muszą dbać o komfort naszej podróży do tego stopnia, że o problemach na pokładzie pasażer ma dowiedzieć się jako ostatni....
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INDUSTRIAL / COMMERCIAL ART & DESIGN. This fascinating book examines every aspect of airline style, from the company liveries and interior designs of planes to advertising, haute couture and airborne haute cuisine. Divided into four sections covering fashion, food, interior design and identity, Airline shows how airborne culture has changed since the 1920s. The book spans the conservative to the outrageous, from saris to hotpants, from Hugh Hefner's...