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"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to...
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Bonus chapter! Already a classic, the 2017 updated edition of "Smartphone Love affair" contains a new chapter on our Commander-in-Chief's Twitter habits. Is president Donald J. Trump addicted to Twitter? Are you addicted to Twitter? Read this exciting "Bonus Chapter" to find out.
With his current effort, Dr. Roberts asks readers if they may be getting "Too Much of a Good Thing" regarding their smartphone use. This is no hoity-toity treatise but a...
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An ode to systems engineers--whose invisible work undergirds our life--and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects--often occurring in health care, infrastructure,...
5) Birdstrike
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Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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What role should corporate culture play in the development of an airplane? Discover what went wrong in the development of Boeing's 737 MAX and how the flawed design of the airplane's flight control system led to 346 deaths in two separate crashes. Have we learned the apparently difficult lesson that prioritizing the corporate bottom line over technological excellence does not work?
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Dig deeper into aerodynamic science so you can choose an airfoil shape and appropriate wingspan, aspect ratio, fuselage length, and stabilizer dimensions for your model plane. Pay special attention to aerodynamic stability and such factors as the dihedral angle of the wings, noting these features on full-size aircraft. Then build the airframe, using wood, tissue paper, and metal wire.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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Explore fluids in motion. Energy conservation requires low pressure where fluid velocity is high, and vice versa. This relation between pressure and velocity results in many practical and sometimes counterintuitive phenomena, collectively called the Bernoulli effect: explaining why baseballs curve and how airplane speedometers work.
10) Prom Night
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FilmRise
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1980.
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English
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On prom night, a masked killer stalks teenagers responsible for the accidental death of a girl years earlier. With scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween") and Leslie Nielsen ("Airplane").
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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The very first airplanes were purely land-based. It soon became apparent that planes would need to be able to fly over water in order to transport passengers and cargo effectively. On 28th March 1910, Henri Fabre became the first person to successfully pilot a seaplane over water. Seaplane development went from strength to strength, with Seaplanes becoming the largest aircraft in the world by the end of the First World War. Seaplanes saw the dawn...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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The decades following the First World War saw aircraft designers pushing the boundaries of aeronautical technology, moving the industry forward at a rapid pace. With new commercial markets opening up, it was the visionaries who held the key to success. Each invention promising a future filled with endless possibilities. Airplane manufacture was moving from an era where designers often built their own inventions, to a level of complexity which required...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Take to the air for an eye-opening look at aerial robots, from the autopilot features in commercial airplanes to unmanned drones that can deliver packages. Topics include the role of gyroscopic sensors and recent technological advancements that are extending the functionality and power of flying robots like never before..
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Microbes are all around us—the question is “What do we have to worry about?” From airplanes to restaurants, hotel rooms to your master bathroom, learn how you can protect yourself from germs without becoming totally obsessed with them. Is there any truth to the Five Second Rule? Find out in this lecture..
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The History® Channel
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology. This program recounts the challenges and the critical issues that led to NASA's decision to create an "airplane" to navigate space.
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Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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An acclaimed experimental documentary tracing the history of airplane hijacking as portrayed by mainstream television media. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam** and **Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival**.
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The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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TV. Radio. Phones. Airplanes. Motorcycles. Tractors. Home Appliances. Power Tools. These are “The Machines That Built America.” This new HISTORY Channel docuseries reveals the surprising stories and rivalries behind the ground-breaking innovations that turned America into a superpower. Blending dramatic reenactments and archival footage with interviews from experts, biographers, and others, “The Machines That Built America” brings to life...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
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Russian
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1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. Soviet General Vasiliev’s son is kidnapped by the Mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result, the 108th Motor Rifle Division’s are going for one last mission: bring the General’s son back.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Review the rich tradition of innovation in America. Then zero in on two remarkable achievements: the Wright brothers' airplane and the Apollo flights to the Moon. View an actual astronaut glove worn on Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the Moon.
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