Charles Ira Coombs (1914–1994)
Auteur de Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
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Œuvres de Charles Ira Coombs
Young Readers Baseball Mystery: Sleuth At Shortstop (Young Readers Bookshelf, 22) (1955) 5 exemplaires
Aerospace Power 3 exemplaires
Young Readers Water Sports Stories 3 exemplaires
Young Reader's Mystery Stories 2 exemplaires
Project Mercury 2 exemplaires
Ranch Mystery 2 exemplaires
Young Readers Football Stories 1 exemplaire
Baseball Stories 1 exemplaire
Young Readers Atom Mystery 1 exemplaire
Young Readers - Stories of the Diamond 1 exemplaire
Young readers sports treasury; 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Coombs, Charles Ira
- Date de naissance
- 1914-06-27
- Date de décès
- 1994-02-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 82
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 447
- Popularité
- #54,865
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 51
- Langues
- 1
look at the human factors involved in the rapidly expanding field of terrestrial flight. Much of his material does cover the work being done to study the possibilities of space flight and this includes chapters on the G- load experiments of Col. Stapp as well as the psychological factors men must consider when floating in space. But for the most part his text is an excitingly presented consideration of test planes now being developed, of physical and mechanical problems tangential to flying beyond the speed of sound, of possibilities for civilian travel as well as military endeavors, of experiments such as the convertiplane (which may revolutionize air travel) and the pogo stick. A good layman's introduction made interesting by its suspenseful style and its speculations on the effect of machinery on man.… (plus d'informations)