Transport Aircraft

  • Menno Sjoerd Kamminga

Abstract

Without aircraft there can be no air navigation; it is therefore obvious that we must devote some consideration to the vehicle commanded by the subject of our study, a vehicle in which he performs an important part of his daily work.

Keywords

Civil Aviation Paris Convention Foreign Nationality Military Aircraft Transport Aircraft 
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