<p>The Encyclopedia of Aviation contains over 700 concise, factual entries written by leading aviation writers and is liberally illustrated with more than 250 photographs and drawings. It brings together every important aspect of the subject; airplane types, manufacturers, instruments, navigation, aeronautical design, civil aviation, airlines, military aviation, combat aces, pioneer pilots, famous designers, technical concepts and terms, and sigtnficant events in the development of aviation. The Encyclopedia of Aviation has all the details about performance, models, and design features that the aviation amateur and the specialist will want to know. The weapon systems and air battles of military flying are here, along with aviation records, racing pilots, epoch-making flights, and famous individual aircraft. In major articles on fundamental subjects such as aerodynamics, jet engines, navigation, radar, radio, sailplanes, supersonic flight, and wings the encyclopedia also provides the necessary background for any nonspecialist who wants to know what the technical side of aviation is all about. The material is arranged alphabetically with extensive cross-references, and ther eis a comprehensive index.</p>

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<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

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