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Planning and Design of Airports, 4/e
Completely updated to cover all recent developments in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic book offers you a definitive guide to the planning, engineering, and design of airports. Filled with example problems, illustrations, and up-to-date references, the work provides essential information on the dramatic changes in airport design and operation brought about by deregulation over the past decade. Here, you'll find a wealth of new ideas on the geometric design of the airfield; planning and design of terminal areas, including two new facilities in the Denver and Pittsburgh airports; lighting, signing, and marking; aircraft characteristics related to airport design; airport configuration; and forecasting in aviation and airport planning. The Fourth Edition also updates statistical and legislative data on aviation and airports, and features the latest thinking on airport capacity, air traffic control, airport financing, the design of pavements, environmental assessment, and heliport and vertiport design. Whether you're an engineer, architect, manager, or planner, the new edition of this definitive sourcebook will give you the hands-on expertise required to deal with any aspect of modern airport planning and design..
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America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947 (Centennial of Flight Series, 1)
Across the country, Americans take for granted the convenience of air flight from one city to another The federal role in managing air traffic and the cooperative corporate planning of major airlines mask to some degree the fact that those airports are not jointly owned or managed, but rather are local public responsibilities. In this unique history of the places travelers in cities across America call "the" airport, Janet R. Daly Bednarek traces the evolving relationship between cities and their airports during the crucial formative years of 1918-47. She highlights the early history of experimentation and innovation in the development of municipal airports and identifies the factors -- including pressure from the U.S. Post Office and the military, neither of which had the independent resources to develop a network of terminals -- that made American cities responsible for their own air access. She shows how boosterism accelerated the trend toward local construction and ownership of the fields. In the later years of the period, Bednarek shows, cities found they could not shoulder the whole burden of airport construction, maintenance, and improvement. As part of a general trend during the 1930s toward a strong, direct relationship between cities and the federal government, cities began to lobby for federal aid for their airports, a demand that was eventually met when World War II increased the federal stakes in their functioning. Along with this complex local-federal relationship, Bednarek considers the role of the courts and of city planning in the development of municipal airfields. Drawing on several brief case studies, she looks at the social aspects of airports and analyzeshow urban development resulted in a variety of airport arrangements. Little published work has been available on this topic. Now, with Bednarek's thorough treatment and broad view of the subject, those interested in the patterns of American air travel will have new understanding, and those concerned with urban development will recognize an additional dimension of their subject..
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Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope -The Attack on Allied Airfields, New Year's Day 1945
In the early morning of New Year's Day 1945, as the last great German offensive in Ardennes slowly smoldered to an end and the Allies prepared for a final year of war in northwest Europe, against all odds, the Luftwaffe -- assumed to be starved of fuel and fighting spirit -- launched a massive, surprise, low-level strike targeted at Allied tactical airfields throughout France, Belgium, and Holland. Planned under great secrecy, the raid gambled on using the bulk of Luftwaffe fighter assets on the Western Front, with the aim of decimating significant elements of both the British 2nd RAF and the USAAF on the ground. As the winter skies lightened, more than 900 German aircraft -- most of them Fw 190s and Bf 109s -- swept across vulnerable and unsuspecting airfields, including Brussels and Eindhoven. Altogether, more than 200 Allied aircraft were destroyed, with a further 150 damaged. But for the Luftwaffe it was a Pyrrhic victory; 271 fighters were lost and many more damaged. Worse still, of the 213 pilots lost, more than 20 were valuable formation leaders. Using hundreds of eye-witness accounts and rare photographs, this is a definitive study. .
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The Archaeology of Airfields
In the 1950s the British Government embarked on the ambitious project of building a countrywide air defence network - The ROTOR Project. Airfields were erected around the British Isles, both underground and open to the elements. Using his archaeologist's training, Bob Clarke has investigated the background of many of the UK's airfields and airfield structures, asking questions about why they were built in their often widely differing locations, and which criteria affected the decisions. He uncovers in the process the fascinating thought processes behind their construction and illustrates what they reveal about the concerns of their time. This book does not seek to cover every airfield in Britain, nor to tell the stories of the many squadrons involved. Rather, this is a history of Britain's airfields set against the country's varied landscape, examining both their make-up and the political background that saw them called into being..
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21st Century U.S. Army Field Manuals: Planning and Design of Airfields and Heliports, FM 5-430 (CD-ROM)
This unique electronic book on CD-ROM has a complete reproduction of the U.S. Army Field Manual, Planning and Design of Airfields and Heliports, FM 5-430, 539 pages. In addition, as a bonus, there are reproductions of over 50 vital U.S. Army Field Manuals! Field Manual (FM) 5-430 is intended for use as a training guide and reference text for engineer personnel responsible for planning, designing, and constructing airfields and heliports in the theater of operations (TO). FM 5-430-00-2/AFJPAM 32-8013, Vol II serves as the basis for airfield and heliport design. It discusses the complete process of airfield and heliport construction from the preliminary investigations, through design criteria, to the final project layout and construction techniques... contains much of the information required to design the substructure of an airfield or a heliport. The material in this manual applies to all levels of engineer involvement in the TO. The manual is intended to be used by United States (US) Army Corps of Engineers personnel. Successful construction of an airfield or heliport requires careful planning accomplished as early as possible. Planning includes Mission assignment. Collection of planning data. Designation of controlling aircraft categories. Establishment of airfield or heliport construction standards. Estimation of the required construction effort. MISSION ASSIGNMENT: Before actual airfield or heliport planning can begin, a thorough analysis of the proposed mission is necessary. The planner must know what the primary mission will be and what organizations and types of aircraft will be assigned (fighter, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance, tactical airlift, strategic airlift, or a combination of these). Also as important is how long they plan to stay, how many people will be deployed, what level of aircraft maintenance will be required, and whether an aerial port will be needed. Normally, the deploying command will have precise information available to answer these questions. PLANNING DATA - As with any TO installation, the threat to the airfield is of prime concern. This should be one of the first items of information that you, the planner, should obtain to determine what type of survivability and vulnerability reduction measures will be required. In any environment, aircraft on the ground must be protected, air field systems must always be kept operational, and logistics support must survive to ensure continual aircraft operations. The threat also will determine How individual facilities and facility groups should be configured, dispersed, or nondispersed. Whether utility plants can be centralized or dispersed. How much and what kind of protection will be required for parked aircraft. Whether vulnerability reduction measures (such as facility protection, camouflage, or concealment) will be needed. The threat also will drive the size of the airfield. An airfield in a more forward area, employing dispersed measures, will require much more land area than one located in the staging and logistics area, where the threat is little to none. Topographic, climatologic, and hydrologic planning data is used to determine the prevailing wind direction..
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AIRFIELDS AND AIRMEN OF THE CHANNEL COAST (Battleground I)
In this latest addition to the Airfields and Airmen Series, Mike O'Connor describes the dramatic air actions that took place along the Belgian and North France coastline during The Great War. In addition to the Royal Fighting Corps and RAF aspect this volume covers the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Belgian Air Service (AMB) as well as the German Naval Air Service. REVIEWS "takes a seemingly mundane subject as airfields and turns it into a fresh understanding of air combat on the Western Front... newly prepared maps are excellent and are augmented by a fine array of WWI era black and white photos as well as recent views of airfields and surrounding areas noted in the book... recommended highly "Over the Front, Autumn 2008.
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21st Century Complete Guide to Afghanistan - Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, War on Terror, Taliban, al-Qaeda (Al-Qaida), Bagram Airfield, Kabul, Khost, Karzai (Four CD-ROM Set)
Completely updated and revised for this new edition, our unique electronic book on four CD-ROMs has an amazing collection of the finest federal documents and resources about Afghanistan, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of the country. This disc set provides a truly fantastic reference source, with over one hundred thousand pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat format! There is complete coverage of newsworthy material about Afghanistan, including the War on Terror, the Taliban and al-Qaeda, 9/11 aftermath, Hamid Karzai, Bagram Airfield, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer District, Kabul, Khost, Ayenda, Clinton Administration, Bush, First Lady, and Vice President Cheney visits, USAID (with over 32,000 pages of USAID reports), business and export, support for women, children, and refugees, U.S. relations, and more. This incredible and comprehensive series on the countries of the world contains material from the State Department, Department of Defense, White House, and cabinet agencies including Agriculture, Energy, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. There is complete information about geography, people, government, the economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. In addition to the nation-specific material, as a bonus we have included reports about every country on the globe, with 271 nations, dependent areas, and other entities identified by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA World Factbook is considered an invaluable world encyclopedia reference book. This incredible CD-ROM set is packed with over 100,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material..
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Battle of the Airfields
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