Boeing 747 : 50 years of an aviation icon / by Bauernfeind, Ingo

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The Boeing 747 slowly readies to retire /

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The great gamble: the Boeing 747; the Boeing-Pan AM Project to develop, produce, and introduce the 747, by Kuter, Laurence S.

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747: story of the Boeing super jet, by Ingells, Douglas J., 1918-

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Visual inspection results of aged Boeing 737 and 747 single-element, dual-load path flight control components : final report / by DiMambro, Joseph

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747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation / by Sutter, Joseph F.

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Air Force One : the aircraft that shaped the modern presidency / by Hardesty, Von, 1939-

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The Boeing Company / by Malcolm-Gibbs, Wayne

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Thermostructural analysis of the SOFIA fine field and wide field imagers subjected to convective thermal shock / by Kostyk, Christopher B.

Subjects: “…Boeing 747 aircraft. nasat…”
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Transportation safety : information concerning why a 1980 aircraft report was not provided earlier to the National Transportation Safety Board / by Hast, Robert H.

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Why cats land on their feet, and 76 other paradoxes and puzzles in physics / by Levi, Mark, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Feeling Coriolis in a Boeing 747 --…”
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Plane truth : a private investigator's story / by Davies, Carl A.

Table of Contents: “…PAN AM 103 INVESTIGATION; Chapter 5 EVERETT, WASHINGTON. BIRTHPLACE OF THE BOEING 747; Chapter 6 GATHERING EVIDENCE: TIMING DEVICES; Chapter 7 TWA 800 AND THE FOUR CRASH THEORIES; Chapter 8 WHY DO BOEING 747'S BREAK UP IN FLIGHT?…”
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Spaceflight revolution / by Ashford, David, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Comparison between Sänger and Boeing 747 -- Appendix 2. Propellant mass fraction estimates.…”
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Seconds from disaster.

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The God delusion / by Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" ; The ontological argument and other a priori arguments ; The argument from beauty ; The argument from personal "experience" ; The argument from Scripture ; The argument from admired religious scientists ; Pascal's wager ; Bayesian arguments -- Why there almost certainly is no God. The ultimate Boeing 747 ; Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser ; Irreducible complexity ; The worship of gaps ; The anthropic principle : planetary version ; The anthropic principle : cosmological version ; An interlude at Cambridge -- The roots of religion. …”

The world's most powerful civilian aircraft / by Eden, Paul E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The golden age -- Junkers F13 (1919) -- Dornier Wal (1922) -- Fokker F.VII and F.VII-3m (1924) -- Ford Tri-Motor (1926) -- Dornier Do X (1929) -- Junkers Ju 52/3m (1931) -- Boeing 247 (1933) -- Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 (1934) -- Lockheed Super Electra and Lodestar (1937) -- Boeing 314 Clipper (1938) -- Boeing 307 Stratoliner (1938) -- Douglas DC-4, DC-6 and DC-7 (1938) -- Lockheed Constellation and Super Constellation (1943) -- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (1947) -- Vickers Viscount (1948) -- De Havilland DH.106 Comet (1949) -- Boeing 707 (1954) -- Sud-Aviation Caravelle (1955) -- Fokker F27 Friendship and F50 (1955) -- Douglas DC-8 (1958) -- Hawker Siddeley Trident (1962) -- Vickers VC10 (1962) -- Aero Spacelines Guppy and Super Guppy (1962) -- Boeing 727 (1963) -- The modern era -- BAC One-Eleven (1963) -- Douglas DC-9, MD-80/90 and Boeing 717 (1965) -- Ilyushin Il-62 "Classic" (1967) -- Boeing 737 (1967) -- Fokker F28 Fellowship and 70/100 (1967) -- Tupolev TU-144 "Charger" (1968) -- Tupolev TU-154 "Careless" (1968) -- Boeing 747 (1969) -- Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde (1969) -- McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and MD-11 (1970) -- Lockheed L-1011 Tristar (1970) -- Airbus Industrie A300 and A310 (1972) -- De Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 (1975) -- Boeing 767 (1981) -- BAe 146 and Avro RJ (1981) -- Boeing 757 (1982) -- Saab 340 and 2000 (1983) -- De Havilland Canada DHC8 Dash 8 Bombardier Q Series (1983) -- ATR 42 and 72 (1984) -- Airbus A320 family (1987) -- Airbus A340 (1991) -- Bombardier CRJ (1991) -- Airbus A330 (1992) -- Boeing 777 (1994) -- Embraer ERJ (1995) -- Embraer E-Jet (2002) -- Airbus A380 (2005) -- Boeing 787 Dreamliner (2009) -- Index.…”
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The best digital marketing campaigns in the world II : mastering the art of customer engagement / by Ryan, Damian

Table of Contents: “…Samsung Facebook Activation -- Case study 26. Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 -- Case study 27. Fortnum & Mason -- Case study 28. …”
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The God question : what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine / by Pessin, Andrew, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Adams (b. 1937): God could have done better, and maybe even worse -- Eleonore Stump (b. 1947): May God grant us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed--namely everything -- Alvin Plantinga (b. 1932): Reasonable without reasons -- Hans Jonas (1903-93): God after Auschwitz -- George Mavrodes (b. 1926): If there is no God then everything is permitted -- William Alston (b. 1921): Perceiving God -- John Hick (b. 1922): The one behind the many -- Marilyn McCord Adams (b. 1943): When even the best of all possible worlds isn't good enough for you -- Paul Davies (b. 1946): Chances are the world is not by chance -- Richard Swinburne (b. 1934): All-knowing without knowing everything -- Michael Behe (b. 1952): Return of the intelligent designer -- Sarah Coakley (b. 1951): The God-dess -- Daniel Dennett (b. 1942): Thou shalt stand on thine own two legs -- Richard Dawkins (b. 1941): The ultimate Boeing 747 -- Concluding remarks: ending in the middle.…”

The engineering book : from the catapult to the Curiosity Rover : 250 milestones in the history of engineering / by Brain, Marshall

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 30,000 BCE: Bow and arrow -- 3300 BCE: Hunter/gatherer tools -- 2550 BCE: Great Pyramid -- 2000 BCE: Inuit technology -- 1400 BCE: Concrete -- 625 BCE: Asphalt -- 438 BCE: Parthenon -- 312 BCE: Roman aqueduct system -- 100 BCE: Waterwheel -- 79: Pompeii -- 1040: Compass -- 1144: Basilica of Saint Denis -- 1300: Catapult -- 1372: Leaning Tower of Pisa -- 1492: Square-rigged wooden sailboats -- 1600: Great Wall of China -- 1620: Gunter's chain -- 1670: Mechanical pendulum clock -- 1750: Simple machines at Yates Mill -- 1773: Building implosions -- 1784: Power Loom -- 1790: Cotton Mill -- 1794: Cotton Gin -- 1800: High-pressure steam engine -- 1823: Truss bridge -- 1824: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- 1825: Erie Canal -- 1830: Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive -- 1835: Combine Harvester -- 1837: Telegraph system -- 1845: Mass production -- 1845: Tunnel boring machine -- 1846: Sewing machine -- 1851: America's Cup -- 1854: Water treatment -- 1855: Bessemer process -- 1856: Plastic -- 1858: Big Ben -- 1859: Oil well -- 1859: Modern sewer system -- 1860: Louisville Water Tower -- 1861: Wamsutta Oil Refinery -- 1861: Elevator -- 1869: Transcontinental Railroad -- 1873: Cable Cars -- 1876: Telephone -- 1878: Power Grid -- 1879: Carbon fiber -- 1885: Supercharger and Turbocharger -- 1885: Washington Monument -- 1886: Statue of Liberty -- 1889: Eiffel Tower -- 1889: Hall-Heroult Process -- 1890: Steam Turbine -- 1891: Carnegie Hall -- 1891: Zuiderzee Works -- 1893: Two-Stroke Diesel Engine -- 1893: Ferris Wheel -- 1897: Diesel Locomotive -- 1899: Defibrillator -- 1902: Air Conditioning -- 1903: EKG/ECG -- 1903: Wright Brothers' Airplane -- 1905: Engineered lumber -- 1907: Professional Engineer Licensing -- 1908: Internal Combustion Engine -- 1910: Laparoscopic surgery -- 1912: Titanic -- 1913: Woolworth Building -- 1914: Panama Canal -- 1917: Laser -- 1917: Hooker Telescope -- 1919: Women's Engineering Society -- 1919: Under Friction Roller Coaster -- 1920: Kinsol Trestle Bridge -- 1920: Radio Station -- 1921: Robot -- 1926: Heart-Lung Machine -- 1927: Electric Refrigeration -- 1931: Empire State Building -- 1935: Tape Recording -- 1936: Hoover Dam -- 1937: Golden Gate Bridge -- 1937: Hindenburg -- 1937: Turbojet Engine -- 1937: Magnetically Levitated Train -- 1938: Formula One Car -- 1939: Norden Bombsight -- 1939: Color Television -- 1940: Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- 1940: Radar -- 1940: Titanium -- 1941: Doped Silicon -- 1942: Spread Spectrum -- 1943: Dialysis Machine -- 1943: SCUBA -- 1944: Helicopter -- 1945: Uranium Enrichment -- 1945: Trinity Nuclear Bomb -- 1946: ENIAC: First Digital Computer -- 1946: Top-Loading Washing Machine -- 1946: Microwave Oven -- 1946: Light Water Reactor -- 1947: AK-47 -- 1947: Transistor -- 1948: Cable TV -- 1949: Tower Crane -- 1949: Atomic Clock -- 1949: Integrated Circuit -- 1950: Chess Computer -- 1951: Jet Engine Testing -- 1952: Center-Pivot Irrigation -- 1952: 3D Glasses -- 1952: Ivy Mike Hydrogen Bomb -- 1953: Automobile Airbag -- 1956: Hard Disk -- 1956: TAT-1 Undersea Cable -- 1957: Frozen Pizza -- 1957: Space Satellite -- 1958: Cabin Pressurization -- 1959: Desalination -- 1960: Cleanroom -- 1961: Tl Line -- 1961: Green Revolution -- 1962: SR-71 -- 1962: Atomic Clock Radio Station -- 1963: Retractable Stadium Roof -- 1963: Irradiated Food -- 1964: Top Fuel Dragster -- 1964: Drip Irrigation -- 1964: Natural Gas Tanker -- 1964: Bullet Train -- 1965: Gateway Arch in St Louis -- 1965: Cluster Munition -- 1966: Compound Bow -- 1966: Parafoil -- 1966: Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor -- 1966: Dynamic RAM -- 1967: Automotive Emission Controls -- 1967: Apollo 1 -- 1967: Saturn V Rocket -- 1968: C-5 Super Galaxy -- 1968: Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet -- 1969: Lunar Landing -- 1969: ARPANET -- 1969: Space Suit -- 1970: LCD Screen -- 1970: Apollo 13 -- 1970: Fiber Optic Communication -- 1971: Anti-Lock Brakes -- 1971: Lunar Rover -- 1971: Microprocessor -- 1971: CANDU Reactor -- 1971: CT Scan -- 1971: Power Plant Scrubber -- 1971: Kevlar -- 1972: Genetic Engineering -- 1973: World Trade Center -- 1975: Router -- 1976: Concorde -- 1976: CN Tower -- 1976: VHS Videotape -- 1977: Human-Powered Airplane -- 1977: Tuned Mass Damper -- 1977: Voyager Spacecraft -- 1977: Trans-Alaska Pipeline -- 1977: MRI -- 1978: Nitrous Oxide Engine -- 1978: Bagger 288 -- 1979: Seawise Giant Supertanker -- 1980: Flash Memory -- 1980: Ml Tank -- 1980: Stadium TV Screen -- 1981: Bigfoot Monster Truck -- 1981: Space Shuttle Orbiter -- 1981: V-22 Osprey -- 1982: Artificial Heart -- 1982: Neodymium Magnet -- 1983: RFID Tag -- 1983: F-117 Stealth Fighter -- 1983: Mobile Phone -- 1983: Gimli Glider -- 1983: Ethernet -- 1984: 3D Printer -- 1984: Domain Name Service (DNS) -- 1984: Surgical Robot -- 1984: Container Shipping -- 1984: Itaipu Dam -- 1985: Bath County Pumped Storage -- 1985: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) -- 1985: Virtual Reality -- 1986: Chernobyl -- 1986: Apache Helicopter -- 1990: World Wide Web -- 1990: Hubble Space Telescope -- 1991: Lithium Ion Battery -- 1991: Biosphere 2 -- 1992: Low-Flow Toilet -- 1992: Stormwater Management -- 1993: Keck Telescope -- 1993: Doom Engine -- 1994: Channel Tunnel -- 1994: Digital Camera -- 1994: Global Positioning System (GPS) -- 1994: Kansai International Airport -- 1995: Toy Story Animated Movie -- 1996: Ariel Atom -- 1996: HDTV -- 1997: Prius Hybrid Car -- 1998: International Space Station -- 1998: Large Hadron Collider -- 1998: Smart Grid -- 1998: Iridium Satellite System -- 1999: Wi-Fi -- 2001: Segway -- 2003: Century of Innovation -- 2004: Millau Viaduct -- 2005: Bugatti Veyron -- 2005: Georgia Aquarium -- 2006: Palm Islands -- 2006: AMOLED Screen -- 2007: Smart Phone -- 2008: Quadrotor -- 2008: Carbon Sequestration -- 2008: Engineering Grand Challenges -- 2008: Martin Jet Pack -- 2008: Three Gorges Dam -- 2009: National Ignition Facility -- 2009: Earthquake-Safe Buildings -- 2009: US President's Limousine -- 2010: Solar Impulse Airplane -- 2010: BP Blowout Preventer Failure -- 2010: Burj Khalifa -- 2010: Harry Potter Forbidden Journey Ride -- 2010: Alta Wind Energy Center -- 2010: Tablet Computer -- 2010: X2 and X3 Helicopters -- 2011: Fukushima Disaster -- 2011: Self-Driving Car -- 2011: Instant Skyscraper -- 2011: Watson -- 2012: Curiosity Rover -- 2012: Human-Powered Helicopter -- 2013: NCSU BookBot -- 2014: Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System -- 2016: Venice Flood System -- c-2020: Vactrains -- c-2024: Brain Replication -- c-2030: Mars Colony -- c-3000: Things we have yet to engineer -- Notes and further reading -- Index -- Photo credits.…”