"This Handbook has been compiled for students of Russian at Service and Civil Aviation Language Schools and is intended to provide them with a large selection of basic terms currently used in Modern Aeronautics. To achieve this purpose the book contains short articles (average 140 words each) describing basic aeronautical and rocketry equipment, flying and ground operations and other Aviation activities, all set in ordinary conversational language. In some cases, idiomatic service expressions are used...Illustrations set out at the end of the Handbook show basic aeronautical equipment and carry captions, specifying component parts in Russian, together with English equivalents"--Introduction.

The bibliography lists over 2800 unilingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias in the physical sciences, engineering and technology published during the past twelve years.The majority of the titles cited have English as the xource or target language, or are dictionaries giving definitions * in English.The bibliographic entries are arranged in 49 subject classes; within each subject, the entries are listed alphabetically by language, and within each language group by author.Forty-seven foreign languages are represented in the compilation.Lists of abbreviations and reference sources, and detailed author, language, and subject indexes complement the publication. (Author).

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)