Free Technology eBooks Online : Motor Vehicles, Air and Space Technology

 

Here is a list of online  Motor Vehicles, Air and Space Technology  books in various formats available for free download or online reading:

 

• • Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images at NAP)
  • Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe
    1. illustrated HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

     

  • A History of Aeronautics by E. Charles Vivian (Gutenberg text)
  • Airborne Trailblazer by Lane E. Wallace (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • Airline Passenger Security Screening: New Technologies and Implementation Issues by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)
  • Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, ed. by Edgar M. Cortright (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • Automotive Fuel Economy: How Far Should We Go? by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images at NAP)
  • Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Aviation Weather Services: A Call for Federal Leadership and Action by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images at NAP)
  • British Airships, Past, Present and Future by George Whale (Gutenberg text)
  • Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft by Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, and Loys S. Swenson (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • Detection of Explosives for Commercial Aviation Security by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)
  • Disaster on Green Ramp: The Army’s Response by Mary Ellen Condon-Rall (HTML at US Army CMH)
  • Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objectsby Edward U. Condon and University of Colorado, ed. by Daniel S. Gillmor (HTML at ncas.org)
  • Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control, ed. by Christoper D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, and James P. McGee (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Flying Machines: Construction and Operation by William J. Jackman and Thomas H. Russell
    1. HTML at kuyper.org
    2. illustrated HTML at Virginia
    3. Gutenberg text

     

  • How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Enginesby Leroy J. Krzycki (illustrated HTML at gramlich.net)
  • Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)

• • Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: A Proceedings by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)
  • Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959 by John L. Sloop (HTML at NASA)
  • Live Fire Testing of the F-22 by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images at NAP)
  • Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight by Mary M. Connors, Albert A. Harrison, and Faren R. Akens (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, ed. by Wendell W. Mendell (page images at Harvard)
  • Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Scenario-Based Strategic Planning for NASA’s Aeronautics Enterprise by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • Managing the Space Sciences by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)
  • Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations by Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty (HTML at NASA)
  • New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)
  • On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet, 1958-1978 by Edward Clinton Ezell and Linda Neuman Ezell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981 by Richard Hallion (illustrated HTML at NASA)
  • On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by Barton C. Hacker and Charles C. Alexander (HTML at NASA)
  • Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990by Roger E. Bilstein (HTML at NASA)
  • Progress in Flying Machines by Octave Chanute (illustrated HTML at UIUC)
  • Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debrisby National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images at NAP)

• Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft by Laurence K. Loftin (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images at NAP)
• Taking Flight: Education and Training for Aviation Careers, ed. by Janet S. Hansen and Clinton V. Oster (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Technology for Small Spacecraft by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images at NAP)
• The Aeroplane Speaks by Horatio Barber
  1. illustrated HTML at Virginia
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (HTML at NASA)
• The Dominion of the Air by John Mackenzie Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• The Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Operators and Automation, ed. by Christoper D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, Raja Pasasuraman, and James P. McGee (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• The Global Positioning System: A Shared National Asset by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images at NAP)
• The High-Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920-1950 by John Vernon Becker (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton (Gutenberg text)
• The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project by Edward Clinton Ezell and Linda Neuman Ezell (HTML at NASA)
• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor by Hermann Noordung (HTML at NASA)
• This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury by Loyd S. Swenson, James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander (HTML at NASA)
• Unmanned Space Project Management: Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter by Erasmus H. Kloman (HTML at NASA)
• Vanguard: A History by Constance McLaughlin Green and Milton Lomask (HTML at NASA)
• Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William David Compton (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Wind Tunnels of NASA by Donald D. Baals and William R. Corliss (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story by R. Dale Reed and Darlene Lister (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text)
• X-15 Research Results, With a Selected Bibliography by Wendell H. Stillwell (illustrated HTML at NASA)