Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. — 177 p.; ill. The fiscal year 2012 budget resolution forced many agencies to significantly reduce their budget spending and adhere to stricter budgetary policies. The one agency that was hit the hardest was the Department of Defense-it was forced to reduce its budget by $10 trillion over a span of 10 years. With the ongoing War on...
Thesis Presented to the Department of History at the University of Ottawa in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. — Ottawa, Canada, 1970. — 165 p. Although, as we shall see, the Soviet Trade Mission to Canada 1924-27 became involved in some rather irregular extracurricular activities, an analysis of those activities must necessarily begin...
The author is not specified. — Berlin: 2016. — 125 s. — ISBN 978-3-00-028549-3. X-1400 (другие наименования Fritz-X, Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X) - немецкая управляемая авиационная бомба периода Второй Мировой войны, ставшая первым в истории образцом высокоточного оружия, принятым на вооружение и потопившим корабль в боевых условиях. Разработчиком бомбы является инженер немецкой...
German language. — Munchen, Berlin: J.F.Lehmanns Verlag, 1943. — 80 p. Mit Unterstutzung des Reichsluftfahrtministeriums. Der Weltkrieg gab der Entwjdclung des Flugwesens einen gewaltigen Auftrieb. Die unter dem Zwang der Kriegsnotwendigkeit erzielten Fortschritte hatten in Friedenszeiten eine wesentlich Iangere Zeitspanne erfordert. Der Zeitpunkt des Kriegsbeginns war fur die...
Berlin: Wilhelm Limpert-Berlag, 1941. — 119 s. Erlebnisberichte zufammengejftellt und bearbeitet von Hermann Adler Major im Reihsluftfaprtminifterium. Im Frieden bildet das englifche Luftminifterium, nach den Angaben im „Handbuch der Luftfahrt”, Jahrgang 1939 (Verlag I. F. Lehmann), denen gegenüber gewiffe Änderungen inzwifchen wabhrfcheinlich eingetreten find, die oberfte...
The author is not specified. — Phenix Aviation, 2018. — 13 p. The design is focussed on the following details: Full composite construction Forward mounted engine Side by side seating Wide and comfortable cabin Hydraulic pre‐rotator Big cargo compartment High inertia rotor blades Maximum empty weight of 300 kgs Ballistic recovery parachute Meet most demanding certification rules
New York: Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corp, 1930. — 1106 p. Aero Digest was a professional periodical covering the aircraft industry and the profession of flying. It began publication in 1921, originally appearing as the Official bulletin of the World's Board of Aeronautical Commissioners. At its inception Aero Digest was a channel for supporting and boosting the emerging...
New York: Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corp, 1932. — 697 p. Aero Digest was a professional periodical covering the aircraft industry and the profession of flying. It began publication in 1921, originally appearing as the Official bulletin of the World's Board of Aeronautical Commissioners. At its inception Aero Digest was a channel for supporting and boosting the emerging...
Model & Allied Publication Ltd, 1969. — 15 p. This valuable collection of data sheets for aeromodellers provides almost a lifetime's collection of information on all aspects of model flying.
Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992. — 529 p. This is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037 (262) through NASA SP-7037 (273) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Continuing Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics...
Translated from Russian. Sourse: "Initsiirovanie tverdykh vzryvchatykh veshchestv udarom". — Moskva: Izdatel 'stvo "Nauka", 1968. — 172 s. — Jerusalem: Program for Scientific Translations, 1971. — 113 p. The book is an introduction to the quantitative theory of the sensitivity of solid explosives to mechanical influences. It presents the results of research on the mechanism of...
Translated from the Russian by Alexander Rosinkin. — Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1979. — 110 p. The rate of a process is an extremely important factor that determines the efficiency of chemical equipment. Hence one of the basic problems that chemistry faces in the conditionsof the scientific and technical revolution is the search for new ways to accelerate chemical reactions....
No publisher info, ca. 1883. — 78 p. Afghanistan, 1879-80 is an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The war began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in...
Venice: NATO, 1956. — 391 p. The papers presented in this volume survey one of the major divisions of guided missiles design, and provide information which will be useful to those engaged in the design of missiles and missile systems. In addition, the Seminar illustrated the value of discussing matters pertaining to guided missiles in international meetings and pointed the way...
By Eneko Agirre; Olatz Ansa; Xabier Arregi; Xabier Artola; Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza; Mikel Lersundi; David Martinez; Kepa Sarasola; Ruben Urizar. — University of the Basque Country, 2000. — 11 p. This paper deals with the exploitation of dictionaries for the semi-automatic construction of lexicons and lexical knowledge bases. The final goal of our research is to enrich the...
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fullment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology. — Kanpur: Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, 1980. — 92 p. The forward I-V characteristics and forward resistance of the PIN diodes are calculated with the band gap narrowing effect taken into consideration. It is found that at low currents, the...
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. (FAMSI), 2008. — 221 p. Aztec architecture reflects the values and civilization of an empire, and studying Aztec architecture is instrumental in understanding the history of the Aztecs, including their migration across Mexico and their re-enactment of religious rituals. Aztec architecture can be best described as...
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. (FAMSI), 2007. — 158 p. A main function of Aztec Art was to express religious and mythical concepts to legitimize the power of the State. This artistic language spoke predominantly through the form of iconographic symbols and metaphors. For example, the image of the eagle symbolized the warrior and the sun at its...
Anuario Colombiano De Historia Social y De La Cultura. Vol. 38, № 1. — 2011. — P. 179-217. — ISSN 0120-2456 The Chaco War as a Challenge to Pan-Americanism: The Winding Road toward the Buenos Aires Peace Conference, 1934-1935. The article provides a critical approach to the effectiveness of the American peace machinery aimed at putting an end to the conflict between Bolivia and...
Helsingissä: G.W. Edlund, 1883. — 1213 p. Added title pages in Finnish: Ruotsalais-suomalainen; and Suomalais-ruotsalainen. Behof vet af mindre omf&ngsrika, praktiskt uppstälda ordbocker fiin sYenska tili finska spräket och tyärtom bar blifvit alt mera käimbart i värt land. Detta bar föranledt utgifvandet af det lexikaliska arbete, som b&rmed utgftr tili allmänheten. Den...
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. — Los Angeles: University of California, 2016. — 146 p. As commercial aerospace companies advance toward manned spaceflight, they must overcome many hurdles – not only technical, but also human. One of the greatest human challenges they face is food....
Dar-us-Salam, Darus Salam Publishers, 2010. — 490 p. In it are events of consecutive days, months & years of major Islamic Conquests, starting from the period of first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) to the reign of Ottoman Caliph Murad 3, have been described, with full color maps and unique snaps, in such a manner that the reader goes along with them and comes across wonderful...
Dar-us-Salam, Darus Salam Publishers, 2010. — 490 p. In it are events of consecutive days, months & years of major Islamic Conquests, starting from the period of first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) to the reign of Ottoman Caliph Murad 3, have been described, with full color maps and unique snaps, in such a manner that the reader goes along with them and comes across wonderful...
New York: E. Steiger & Co, 1883. — 233 p. The present Complete Latin Syntax which forms a part of ahn-henn's Latin Course, is designed to meet the wants of advanced students. While the systematic study of Syntax has been provided for in the author's Latin Grammar and Third Latin Book With special regard to those who are preparing for college, in the present volume the aim has been...
London: F. Thimm, 1857. — 124 s. „Learn a foreign language as you learned your mothertongue." It is the way that nature herself follows, it is the same which the mother points out in speaking to her child, repeating to it a hundred times the same words, combining them imperceptibly and succeeding in this way in making it speak the same language she speaks. To learn in this...
New York, Berlin, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2006. — 884 p. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification program―a revelation that made the front page of the New York Times. This was only one of the discoveries Aid has made during two decades of research in formerly top-secret documents. In The Secret Sentry,...
London: 2000. — 176 p. — ISBN: 1-86227-109-7 The development of the German Fallschirmjager (paraehutists) formations can be traced back to the years precedingWorld War I. During the years between 1 900 and 1914, two major revolutionary military developments emerged, The first was the submersible; the second, and more junior, was powered (light. All Europe was fascinated bv the...
Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. — San Francisco: 1917. — 50 p. This book is intended for those who desire to obtain without a teacher a foundation for the Spanish language, an end easily reached by carefully following the preliminary instructions given in it. The lessons herein contained cover the necessary range of subjects more frequently touched in life, and shall...
New York: Air Age Ink, 1943. — 144 p. A collection of 21 outstanding gas models of all classes and types - A, B, C, Control Line, Tailless - designed by America's top-ranking modelers. Also, instructive articles, charts and diagrams to aid the gas model enthusiast.
Washington: Defense Language Institute, 1971. — 170 p. This volume is one of a series in an intensive audio lingual course in Russian designed for Air Force Students. The course, consisting of 133 lessons in 26 volumes and taught in 37 weeks, seeks to train native English language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in comprehension and a level 2 proficiency in speaking, reading,...
Washington: Defense Language Institute, 1971. — 252 p. This volume is one of a series in an intensive audio lingual course in Russian designed for Air Force students. The course, consisting of 133 lessons in 26 volumes and taught in 37 weeks, seeks to train native English language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in comprehension and a level 2 proficiency in speaking,reading,...
NASA Conference Publication 2190. — Washington: NASA, 1981. — 345 p. A two-day conference was held at the NASA Lewis Research Center on May 6 and 7, 1981, to provide a forum for industry, government, and university personnel interested in the subj ects of engine diagnostics , performance retention and condition monitoring. Twenty two papers were presented including those from...
NATO, 1978. — 192 p. — ISBN 92-835-1297-9 If the world continues to consume its petroleum resources at its current rate of consumption, it will essentially run out of these resources by the turn of the century. The need for aircraft fuel conservation is most urgent, if not mandatory , because the future of aviatio n as we know it today, is at stake. This lecture series is...
Memphis: Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1954. — 285 p. NAVY Trainig Courses. Starting with an introduction to instruments, this book discusses pressure and force as related and used in certain instruments, electrical remote indicating instruments, thermometers, tachometers, fuel gages and flowmeters, compasses, gyroscopes, automatic pilots, navigation instruments, and it further...
Author Unknown, 1945 Edition. — Washington: Goverment Office Printing, 1945. — 237 p. Starting with the basic principles of propeller operation, this book discusses the four types of propellers used today in naval aviation. There is information on the two-position controllable pitch propeller, the constant speed propeller, the hydromatic quick-feathering propeller, and the...
Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1945. — 212 p. Prepared by Standards and Curriculum Division, Training, Bureau of Naval Personnel. Welding is the most practical of the many metal joining processes available to aircraft manufacturers. The welded joint offers rigidity, simplicity, low weight, high strength, and low-cost production equipment. Consequently, welding has...
Manchester: Sankey, Hudson & Co, 1936. — 65 p. Though the Anglo-Saxons constructed defensive works and fortifications, the real age of castle-building in England began after the Norman Conquest. To maintain his power, William the Conqueror erected castles wherever such were strategically necessary, and though they were of the simplest type, they enabled relatively small garrisons...
Review Paper. — Int’l Journal of Aeronautical & Space Science. — 2012. — №13 — P.170–187 Recent years have seen an outpour of revived interest in the use of airships for a number of applications.Present day developments in materials, propulsion, solar panels, and energy storage systems and the need for a more eco-oriented approach to flight are increasing the curiosity in...
ExLi4EvA, 2016. — 339 p. OCR. — ISBN-10: 953-51-2495-1, ISBN-13: 978-953-51-2495-5. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any...
Sacramento: California Office of Appropriate Technology, 1979. — 44 p. The market is responding to the surging popularity of solar energy with flood of books and reports, some hundreds of each to date. Some cf these are truly excellent, while others are thinly disguised attempts to sell something; some are directed to tne reader in plain language with clear examples, while...
Moscow: Mir, 1963. — 519 p. This book is based on lectures which the author has given, over the last 10 years and longer, to scientific workers and engineers at a number of local scientific research institutes, design offices and fac tories in Moscow. His listeners were not specialists in the field of auto matic control. They had had much experience of work in other spheres...
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science Military History. — Colorado Springs: B.S., Unites States Air Force Academy, 1989. — 100 p. The Battle of Stalingrad was a disaster. The German Sixth Army consisted of over 300,000 men when it approached...
Washington: 1946. — 172 p. An acoustic torpedo is a torpedo that aims itself by listening for characteristic sounds of its target or by searching for it using sonar (acoustic homing). Acoustic torpedoes are usually designed for medium-range use, and often fired from a submarine. The first passive acoustic torpedoes were developed nearly simultaneously by the United States Navy and...
Edmonton: Alberta Education, Language Services, 1987. — 89 p. The Ukrainian as a Second Language Supplementary Learning Resources Manual is a support document consisting of a list of print and non-print resources selected for their fit to both the Three- and Six-Year Ukrainian Programs and locally-developed programs at the upper elementary level. It is intended to assist the...
Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2018. — 258 p. This book provides an introduction to the discipline of aerospace structures and materials. It is the first book to date that includes all relevant aspects of this discipline within a single monologue. These aspects range from materials, manufacturing and processing techniques, to structures, design principles and structural...
Hannover: Fackelträger- Verlag, 1970. — 302 s. Umfassend neu bearbeitet, in weiten Teilen neu gegliedert und neu geschrieben, liegt nun das Buch »Das Dritte Reich« wieder vor. In der bekannten und vielfach anerkannten Reihe »Zeitgeschichte in Text und Quellen« setzt es den ersten Band von Walter Tormin »Die Weimarer Republik« fort und wird fortgesetzt vom vorerst dritten von...
Philadelfia: The Farmer Journal, 1909. — 64 p. Excerpt from Horse Secrets: Written, Compiled and Now Disclosed Dr. A. S. Alexander, the writer and compiler of "Horse Secrets," has had upward of 25 years' experience in matters pertaining to agriculture, horse breeding, veterinary science, press writing and teaching. He was the author of the first stallion service legislation and...