About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 112. Chapters: Aircraft hijacking, Thunderstorm, Fog, Stall, List of aircraft hijackings, Traffic collision avoidance system, Wind gradient, Foreign object damage, Bird strike, Spin, Wind shear, Aviation archaeology, Mid-air collision, Microburst, Wingtip vortices, Aircraft upset, Compressor stall, Pilot error, Controlled flight into terrain, Wake turbulence, Air-mass thunderstorm, Deicing, Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, Sensory illusions in aviation, Clear-air turbulence, Ice protection system, Vortex ring, Spatial disorientation, Downburst, Flight envelope protection, Coffin corner, List of microbursts, Aviation insurance, Dissymmetry of lift, Stray animals at Indian airports, Retreating blade stall, Portable Collision Avoidance System, The F.O.D. Control Corporation, Flameout, Control reversal, Pilot-induced oscillation, Settling with power, Dynamic rollover, Airline security, Pitch-up, Height-velocity diagram, Deadstick landing, Atmospheric icing, Ground loop, Low-g condition, Helmet fire, Accident classification, List of aircraft upset factors, Tailstrike, JACDEC, Hard landing, Ground resonance, Carburetor icing, Sabre dance, Core lock, Flight Test Safety Committee, Gravelkit, Global Safety Information Exchange, T6NL, Unstart, Wheel-barrowing, Post stall, Ramp strike, Overspeed. Excerpt: A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower or simply a storm is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder. The meteorologically assigned cloud type associated with the thunderstorm is the cumulonimbus. Thunderstorms are usually accompanied by strong winds, heavy rain and sometimes snow, sleet, hail, or no precipitation at all. Those which cause hail to fall are known as hailstorms. Thunderstorms may line up in a serie...