The Resource Cockpit Confidential : Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections, (electronic resource)
Cockpit Confidential : Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- ""Patrick Smith is extraordinarily knowledgeable about modern aviation ... the ideal seatmate, a companion, writer and explainer.""--Boston Globe Airline pilot Patrick Smith divulges his personal and sometimes surprising insights into the most newsworthy and wacky topics involving air travel today. It's an entertaining, accessible read, based on the decade-long Salon.com columns covering topics from security, airfares, pilot training, ariline customer service, and more. In the way Anthony Bourdain makes the world of cuisine fascinating even for those
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Note
- About the AuthorBack Cover
- Contents
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- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Painter's Brush; 1. Plane Truth: Things about Wings and Why Knots; The Airplane in Art, Music, and Film; 2. Elements of Unease: Turbulence, Windshear, Weather, and Worry; High Art: History, Hype, and the World's Biggest Planes; What Plane Is That? An Airfleets Primer; Revere Reverie: A Hometown Memoir; 3. What Goes Up ... : Takeoffs, Landings, and the Mysterious Between; What's the Matter with Airports?; 4. Flying for a Living: The Awe and Odd of a Life Aloft
- The Right Seat: Propellers, Polyester, and Other MemoriesAccommodations: On the Road with Patrick Smith; 5. En Route: Life in the Cabin; North Latitude: Fear and Loathing on the High Atlantic; Looking Out: Memorable Views from Aloft; 6. ... Must Come Down: Disasters, Mishaps, and Fatuous Flights of Fancy; Terminal Madness: What Is Airport Security?; The Ten Deadliest Air Disasters of All Time; We Gaan: The Horror and Absurdity of History's Worst Plane Crash; 7. The Airlines We Love to Hate; The Yin and Yang of Airline Identity; How to Speak Airline: A Glossary for Travelers; Index
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- 9781402280931
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- Cockpit Confidential : Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
- Title
- Cockpit Confidential
- Title remainder
- Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""Patrick Smith is extraordinarily knowledgeable about modern aviation ... the ideal seatmate, a companion, writer and explainer.""--Boston Globe Airline pilot Patrick Smith divulges his personal and sometimes surprising insights into the most newsworthy and wacky topics involving air travel today. It's an entertaining, accessible read, based on the decade-long Salon.com columns covering topics from security, airfares, pilot training, ariline customer service, and more. In the way Anthony Bourdain makes the world of cuisine fascinating even for those
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Patrick
- Dewey number
- 387.7
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HE9776 .S385 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Air travel
- Airplanes
- Aeronautics, Commercial
- Airlines
- Aeronautics, Commercial
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- Airlines
- Airplanes
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- Cockpit Confidential : Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections, (electronic resource)
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- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Painter's Brush; 1. Plane Truth: Things about Wings and Why Knots; The Airplane in Art, Music, and Film; 2. Elements of Unease: Turbulence, Windshear, Weather, and Worry; High Art: History, Hype, and the World's Biggest Planes; What Plane Is That? An Airfleets Primer; Revere Reverie: A Hometown Memoir; 3. What Goes Up ... : Takeoffs, Landings, and the Mysterious Between; What's the Matter with Airports?; 4. Flying for a Living: The Awe and Odd of a Life Aloft
- The Right Seat: Propellers, Polyester, and Other MemoriesAccommodations: On the Road with Patrick Smith; 5. En Route: Life in the Cabin; North Latitude: Fear and Loathing on the High Atlantic; Looking Out: Memorable Views from Aloft; 6. ... Must Come Down: Disasters, Mishaps, and Fatuous Flights of Fancy; Terminal Madness: What Is Airport Security?; The Ten Deadliest Air Disasters of All Time; We Gaan: The Horror and Absurdity of History's Worst Plane Crash; 7. The Airlines We Love to Hate; The Yin and Yang of Airline Identity; How to Speak Airline: A Glossary for Travelers; Index
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- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Painter's Brush; 1. Plane Truth: Things about Wings and Why Knots; The Airplane in Art, Music, and Film; 2. Elements of Unease: Turbulence, Windshear, Weather, and Worry; High Art: History, Hype, and the World's Biggest Planes; What Plane Is That? An Airfleets Primer; Revere Reverie: A Hometown Memoir; 3. What Goes Up ... : Takeoffs, Landings, and the Mysterious Between; What's the Matter with Airports?; 4. Flying for a Living: The Awe and Odd of a Life Aloft
- The Right Seat: Propellers, Polyester, and Other MemoriesAccommodations: On the Road with Patrick Smith; 5. En Route: Life in the Cabin; North Latitude: Fear and Loathing on the High Atlantic; Looking Out: Memorable Views from Aloft; 6. ... Must Come Down: Disasters, Mishaps, and Fatuous Flights of Fancy; Terminal Madness: What Is Airport Security?; The Ten Deadliest Air Disasters of All Time; We Gaan: The Horror and Absurdity of History's Worst Plane Crash; 7. The Airlines We Love to Hate; The Yin and Yang of Airline Identity; How to Speak Airline: A Glossary for Travelers; Index
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- 1 online resource (322 pages)
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