Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites - Tapa blanda

Veronico, Nicholas A.

 
9780983060642: Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites
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ISBN 10: 0983060649 ISBN 13: 9780983060642
Editorial: Stance & Speed, 2011

Sinopsis

Finding an aircraft crash site is 95 percent research and five percent field work. To be successful at finding historic aircraft wrecks, a Wreckchaser must do the homework first. This book is the starting place for anyone interested in aviation, history, research, hiking, and historic preservation.Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites teaches readers how to research and locate a historic aircraft's final resting place. It takes readers to more than 20 commercial and military crashes and provides extensive research resources, including the longitude and latitude coordinates for more than 500 aircraft wrecks, plus data on another 1,700 aircraft crashes. The book also provides information on how to obtain civil and military crash reports, individual military aircraft record cards, and vital topo maps, as well as lists of Internet resources and recommended reading. Individual aircraft crashes profiled include:• Western Air Express Fokker F-10A • The Philippine Clipper • Grand Canyon Mid-Air • Carole Lombard's TWA DC-3 • DC-3 That Crashed and Flew Again • Airwest Mid-Air with F-4 Phantom • Airship USS Macon and its Sparrowhawk fighters • Grumman F3F Recovered from the Pacific • Arizona TF-51 crash • Lend-Lease P-39 Found in a Canadian lake ...and much more.

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Reseña del editor

Finding an aircraft crash site is 95 percent research and five percent field work. To be successful at finding historic aircraft wrecks, a Wreckchaser must do the homework first. This book is the starting place for anyone interested in aviation, history, research, hiking, and historic preservation.Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites teaches readers how to research and locate a historic aircraft's final resting place. It takes readers to more than 20 commercial and military crashes and provides extensive research resources, including the longitude and latitude coordinates for more than 500 aircraft wrecks, plus data on another 1,700 aircraft crashes. The book also provides information on how to obtain civil and military crash reports, individual military aircraft record cards, and vital topo maps, as well as lists of Internet resources and recommended reading. Individual aircraft crashes profiled include:· Western Air Express Fokker F-10A · The Philippine Clipper · Grand Canyon Mid-Air · Carole Lombard's TWA DC-3 · DC-3 That Crashed and Flew Again · Airwest Mid-Air with F-4 Phantom · Airship USS Macon and its Sparrowhawk fighters · Grumman F3F Recovered from the Pacific · Arizona TF-51 crash · Lend-Lease P-39 Found in a Canadian lake ...and much more.

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Editorial
Stance & Speed
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0983060649
ISBN 13 
9780983060642
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
326
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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