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Author
Publisher
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Weather radar information is one of the most valuable tools available to pilots to ensure safe, efficient, and comfortable flight operations. Onboard weather radar allows pilots to tactically navigate near and around severe weather with confidence. And with the advent of datalink radar data systems, pilots of all types of aircraft and skill levels can easily access similar vital information. Yet pilots must understand how to use these technologies...
Author
Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
DEW LINE -- the story of America's best kept secret now can be told. This is the story of the three-thousand-mile Distant Early Warning line -- America's electronic Paul Revere. Spanning the northernmost reaches of the North American Continent, it stands as an impregnable radar fence against large-scale attack across North Polar regions by enemy long-range bombers and fighter planes. DEW LINE is the dramatic account of how the almost impossible task...
4) Hacking
Author
Language
English
Description
Hacking The Ultimate Beginners to Experts Guide to Computer Hacking, Penetration Testing and Basic Security Coding. In this book, entitled “Hacking" we discuss how hacking affects us. Hacking is mostly known for its disadvantages but it does have advantages too. Hacker and malicious activity has in the past few years been on the rise and this is specifically in the last one year. The attacks and threats have been on the rise and the impact to the...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Following the fall of France and evacuation of the Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, Britain was on the brink of defeat. As the Battle of Britain began, the brave pilots of Fighter Command had one secret weapon in their armory. That weapon was radar and it was conceived, invented, and tested by Watson-Watt and his team of boffins at Orford Ness. Indeed many of the inventions that won both the First and Second World Wars including the first use of...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication Research Establishment, Boscombe Down, with an honorary commission in the Royal Air Force, he made numerous flights over occupied territory searching for, monitoring and destroying Germany's Wuerzburg, Knickebein...
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