Category Archives: Aviation

Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer-Implemented Inventions

Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an invention is to be granted a patent. This is particularly true for inventions implemented on a … Continue reading

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Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance

Far from regarding the law as supreme, corporations approach law as an element of executive thought and action aimed at optimizing competitiveness. The objective of this book is to identify, explore and define corporate legal strategies that seek advantage in … Continue reading

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The Multitasking Myth (Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations)

Multitasking is endemic in modern life and work: drivers talk on cell phones, office workers type while answering phone calls, students do homework while text messaging, nurses prepare injections while responding to doctor’s calls, and air traffic controllers direct aircraft … Continue reading

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Aviation Instructor’s Handbook: FAA-H-8083-9A (FAA Handbooks)

A key reference tool to all the information necessary for operating as an authorized flight instructor, this book was designed for ground, flight, and aviation maintenance instructors to provide up-to-date information on learning and teaching aeronautical knowledge and skills to … Continue reading

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Contemporary Issues Shaping Chinas Civil Aviation Policy

The emergence of China as a future major participant in international aviation raises some interesting questions, especially from a strategic policy perspective. The progressive shift from a command to a mixed market economy under the central leadership of the Beijing … Continue reading

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The Global Airline Industry (Aerospace Series (PEP))

In today’s rapidly changing air transport environment, the aviation professionals require access to advanced and comprehensive knowledge, coupled with an in-depth understanding of the needs of the airline industry. Drawing on the editors’ extensive experience with airline and air transport … Continue reading

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Climate Change and Aviation: Issues, Challenges and Solutions (Earthscan Climate)

Trends such as the massive growth in availability of air travel and airfreight are among those which have led to aviation becoming one of the fastest growing emitters of greenhouse gases. These trends have also caused a shift in expectations … Continue reading

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The Economics of Counterfeit Trade: Governments, Consumers, Pirates and Intellectual Property Rights

Walk down any main street in Shanghai, Paris or New York and you will see evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. Everyone has seen or heard of fake Prada bags or Omega watches. But how large is the counterfeit market? … Continue reading

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Politics at the Airport

Few sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport. Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and … Continue reading

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Avro Lancaster Manual: An insight into restoring, servicing and flying Britain’s legendary World War 2 bomber (Haynes Owners Workshop Manuals)

The legendary Avro Lancaster receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation and authorization of the Royal Air Force. Here is a unique perspective on what it takes to restore and operate a Lancaster, as well as a … Continue reading

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