Since #balloons are back in the news... I just finished to read again this classic on #balloon history by L.T.C. Rolt. You may know it under its original title: The Aeronauts: A History of Ballooning, 1783–1903. 🎈 #AviationBookClub #SundayAviationReading

@vstol Thank you for mentioning this book. I'll definitely add it to my reading list. #AviationBookClub #EmergencyManagement #SundayAviationReading #VerticalFlight

#SundayAviationReading The Sikorsky Aircraft Centennial, 1923-2023, A Tribute by the Igor I Sikorsky Historical Archives is a great monograph celebrating the journey of the #Sikorsky company & the life of its founder. 🚁 #AviationBookClub #engineering #helicopter #VerticalFlight #STEM

#SundayAviationReading Reading this excellent 1989 book featuring a great deal of details & pictures: VTOL Military Research Aircraft by Mike Rogers. 🚁🛩️✈️🚀📕

#avgeeks #aviation #AviationBookClub #engineering #VerticalFlight #VTOLs

#SundayAviationReading Celebrating #aviation 's legacy is important. It includes preserving local stories that made history. Asas Para Porto Seguro (in Portuguese) tells how the former Arraial d’Ajuda airfield in Bahia, Brazil shaped this coastal community. 🇧🇷✈️

#airports #avgeeks #AviationHistory #Bahia #PortoSeguro

#SundayAviationReading With the release of FAA AC 150/5200-37A on SMS for Airports, I thought this article I wrote in 2013 for the Flight Safety Foundation could be a good reading suggestion: https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/working-safely-on-an-operative-runway/. By the way, this safety risk management process had quite a ripple effect on practices: https://skybrary.aero/sites/default/files/bookshelf/5931.pdf. ✈️

#airports #aviation #FlightSafety #SafetyFirst #SMS #SMS4Airports

#SundayAviationReading With operational safety in the spotlight (for good reasons), you might want to read the first consensus report of the National Academies on Emerging Hazards in Commercial Aviation : https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26673/emerging-hazards-in-commercial-aviation-report-1-initial-assessment-of-safety-data-and-analysis-processes. 🚁🛩✈️

#aircraft #airports #AirTravel #aviation #engineering #research #SafetyFirst #SMS #transportation

#SundayAviationReading Finishing Fairey Rotodyne by David Gibbings (who passed away last year) relating the story of this VTOL airliner program which came very close to becoming a commercial reality. 🚁 #aircraft #aviation #engineering #VerticalFlight

In honor of #TRBAM that was held earlier this month, the #SundayAviationReading suggestion of this week is ACRP Research Report 236 on electric #aircraft & #hydrogen techs at #airports. 🚁🛩✈️🔋

#aviation #engineering #STEM

This week's #SundayAviationReading is in Portuguese. Pouso Forçado tells the story of the demise of Panair do Brasil, one of the greatest airlines of its time. In 1965, the military dictatorship arbitrarily & illegally killed this safe & efficient air carrier overnight after 35 years of operations. ✈️🇧🇷
#Airlines #AirTravel #Avgeeks #Aviation #AviationHistory #Brasil #Transportation

#SundayAviationReading Engineer Igor I. Sikorsky is a true aviation legend. And so is his S-64 Skycrane! Don't be deceived by the number of pages of this fairly short book by John A. McKenna. The document is full of details and stories about this incredible machine! 💪🚁🏗 #Avgeeks #Aviation #AviationHistory #Engineering #STEM #VerticalFlight

#SundayAviationReading Does the perfect book at the intersection of planetary exploration & #rotorcraft engineering exist? Well... Maybe! I am half-way through this book on the development of #Ingenuity & #Dragonfly. And this is your daily reminder that humankind did fly an aircraft on another planet! 🚁🚀 #aerospace #avgeeks #engineering #research #spaceships #STEM

#SundayAviationReading Enjoying this 2015 book by Mike Gruntman published with AIAA on the rise of the Soviet missile #defense. A great deal of historical and technical details. And many sad stories, as always with Bolshevik regimes (and dictatorships in general). 🚀 #aerospace #avgeek #aviation #ussr