I need a book

Let'sgoflying!

Let'sgoflying!

Touchdown! Greaser!
Joined
Feb 23, 2005
Messages
20,927
Location
west Texas
Display Name
Display name:
Dave Taylor
tonight. I'm exhausted and need to sit still for a few hours.
It has to be online. Can you buy them online? Has google, with their new book digitization project put any aviation books online?
Prefer aviation books, historical are best (ie nonfiction)
tks
 
Gosh, if only you had a Kindle...

...oh wait, you do!
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
tonight. I'm exhausted and need to sit still for a few hours.
It has to be online. Can you buy them online? Has google, with their new book digitization project put any aviation books online?
Prefer aviation books, historical are best (ie nonfiction)
tks
Click to expand...


http://books.google.com

A lot of them are limited preview, though you can narrow the search to those that are public domain or full view. Here are the aviation full view books:

http://books.google.com/books?q=+su...maxy_is=&as_brr=1&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=6

Here's an interesting historical one from 1910, which I think you'll enjoy, full of pictures and engine details, called The art of aviation: a handbook upon aeroplanes and their engines:

http://books.google.com/books?id=hR...&ei=hNG2SuWbF5HyMrSv_bcP#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 
Last edited:
Dave -- don't you have an iTouch? If so you can install the Kindle app and buy books from Amazon.
 
forget it...apparently the public is not done with me tonight..will save ideas for 'later'
 
TangoWhiskey said:
January 1991

I was supposed to be able to fly one to work in 1999, per the article, and it would have a ballistic parachute. A Cirrus Skycar, perhaps?
Click to expand...

Popular Science September 1967 - "He's flown the craft as high as three feet off the ground - and would have gone higher, he says, if he had a pilot's license."

http://books.google.com/books?id=oN...r=&as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=moller&f=false

Popular Mechanics July 1983 - "will be aviailable in kit form later this year"

http://books.google.com/books?id=oN...r=&as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=moller&f=false
 
Last edited:
I think we were convinced, at around age 12, that we could build one of those gyrocopters found in the back of every issue, using ordinary scrapyard supplies and dad'd push mower as an engine.
"Dreams of youth"
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
I think we were convinced, at around age 12, that we could build one of those gyrocopters found in the back of every issue, using ordinary scrapyard supplies and dad'd push mower as an engine.
"Dreams of youth"
Click to expand...

Combine that with the advertised x-ray glasses and jet-tipped helicopter, and you'd be your own voyeuristic army. :nono: :rofl:
 
You could always get "Don't don't fly!"

Or, you could try my mother's book. Its not bad, but not really my style either. Her name is either Janet Brennan or JB Stillwater, and its available through Kindle (she has 2 books, I think only one is available).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top