Bøger af Rob Ransone

When Richmond, Virginia, freelance newspaper reporters Charlie Johnson and Sheila Miles stumble onto a strange traffic victim who has no fingerprints and is part man, part dog, and part snake, they find themselves involved in a top-secret U.S. Government project to develop super spies for the Counter Intelligence Agencies. A brilliant DNA scientist in a secret laboratory in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, west of Charlottesville, is splicing the genes of various animals into humans to develop keen senses of hearing, seeing, heat sensing, swimming, and strength. Charlie and Sheila eventually find the elusive Dr. Frederick Morganthau and initially pledge support, but when Sheila tries to take matters into her own hands, they find themselves helplessly in danger. The story discusses the technology and ethics of gene splicing.Rob Ransone, an aeronautical engineer and former U.S. Government official, has held all of the top-secret clearances described in the story, and has made the various actions and procedures authentic. The scariest part of the whole story is that, although it is fiction, it is not "science fiction"-It is completely within the current state-of-the-art.

At President-Elect Elaine Rogers January 20th inauguration she wants to announce a new initiative to land humans on Mars by 2032. She asks George to form a plan to make it so. In addition to a difficult task and a short time, international political problems and internal social strife threaten to destroy his team. Even with these difficulties, with his bold plan he lands humans safely on Mars in 2035 and everything is going according to plan. But then unexpected difficulties arise that threaten the entire project and may require clandestine support from the mysterious Area 51 in the Nevada desert. It these difficulties cannot be resolved, they could threaten the entire objective of human exploration of the cosmos. At President-Elect Elaine Rogers January 20th inauguration she wants to announce a new initiative to land humans on Mars by 2032. She asks George to form a plan to make it so. In addition to a difficult task and a short time, international political problems and internal social strife threaten to destroy his team. Even with these difficulties, with his bold plan he lands humans safely on Mars in 2035 and everything is going according to plan. But then unexpected difficulties arise that threaten the entire project and may require clandestine support from the mysterious Area 51 in the Nevada desert. It these difficulties cannot be resolved, they could threaten the entire objective of human exploration of the cosmos.

Case studies of proposals submitted to U.S. Government agencies by a professional consultant with 50 years experience in and around U.S. Government contracting-some good, and some bad experiences-but all educational. A "must read" for anyone interested in this business.

Air Force Captain Rob Wallace, test pilot at the US Air Force Flight Test Center, California, is flying back to Edwards late one afternoon when he sees a Flying Saucer headed towards Groom Lake. It disappears at an incredibly high rate of acceleration. Remembering that no reports of sightings have ever included seeing any jet or rocket exhaust or burned grass, he ponders what propulsion systems could do that He figures that perhaps these space ships are driven by Gravitational Drives utilizing the huge gravity of the super massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and influenced by the weaker gravities of its orbiting stars and even lesser gravity of its planets. Gravitational propulsion is why the saucers are silent, show no exhaust, and can accelerate so quickly without harming the crews. When he tells his ideas to his superiors at Edwards, they realize that he is correct, and send him to their top secret (actually 'Black Facility') Area 51 at Groom Lake, Nevada, which Edwards administers. At Area 51, he discovers that an alliance has been formed with the Grey Aliens from planet Kepler-435b. When a UFO crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, American scientists wanted to dissect the bodies to study them, but wiser heads prevailed. Contact was established with the Greys in order to return the bodies for proper care. This established the trust that resulted in an alliance between the Greys and Americans. At Area 51 he becomes part of the alliance to meld Earth and Alien technologies, comprising US, German, English, Australia, French, Japan, Israeli, India, and Alien scientists.But then he discovers that their planet, older than Earth, may be dying, and they are secretly plotting to mass colonize the Earth. If so, would they become the colonists and we humans become the Indians?

To Ben, Some of my earliest childhood pleasures were listening to my parents and grand parents' wonderful stories in response to my plea to "tell me about when you were a little boy" or "tell me about when you were a little girl." This was about 1939 when I was six years old. My parents were born in 1904 and 1905 and my grandmothers were born in 1863 and 1877 during the American Civil War, so their stories of living in those times were fascinating to me. I want to pass some of these stories on to you, as well as stories about my boyhood, schooling, and career in aerospace and academia, and your family history. You have many colorful and distinguished ancestors, and you will want to know about them, because they all contribute to who you are. My youth is now history, your history. It includes life before television, jet airliners, space ships, personal computers, and cell phones. It includes the terrible World War II years, and Cold War bomb shelters that, thankfully, were not needed. I'm history. Someday, your "today" will also be history. Love; Granddaddy January 2016

An engineer's assessment of the human mind and how it works, bringing together neuroscience, Freudian psychology, Transactional Analysis, I'm OK--You're OK, and Games People Play.

Rob Ransone, an aeronautical engineer from Texas A&M, flight tested some unusual aircraft as a project flight test engineer during his eleven years at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California, and later as Development Engineer, VSTOL Technology for American Airlines in New York City. As a commissioned officer at Edwards he flew 106 hours of performance and stability & control flight tests of the YB-58A Mach 2 bomber, and tested the Tri-Service VSTOL performance, and stability & control flight tests of the XC-142A Tilt-Wing VSTOL transport and the X-19 Tilt Propeller VTOL aircraft. In 1964 he was the flight test representative on a 13-person Department of Defense team that evaluated the Federal Republic of Germany's ability to develop VSTOL aircraft. At Edwards he received three outstanding Officer Effectiveness Reports and a civilian Sustained Superior Performance recognition. He left the Flight Test Center in 1968 to study VTOL and VSTOL aircraft for American Airlines in New York City as a means of relieving air traffic congestion in the Northeast Corridor. For American Airlines he evaluated several STOL aircraft concepts, and tested the French Breguet 941/MacDonnell MDC-188 STOL transport in simulated passenger routes. He defined STOL field length criteria, defined comprehensive STOL Airlines System Requirements, and evaluated the feasibility of a floating STOLport in the Hudson River to serve Manhattan Island. His work with a citizens protest group was documented in the display Confrontation of Technology with Society at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. His Society of Automotive Engineers paper, Chelsea STOLport - The Airline View, documenting the floating STOLport controversy, was published in the prestigious SAE Transactions For 1976 for its "high quality, lasting value, and contribution to the art." Only 10% of SAE papers presented each year are awarded that honor. Mr. Ransone is an Associate Fellow and Lifetime Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Lifetime Member of the Flight Test Historical Society. He lives in Virginia, is happily married to the former Paula McBride for more than 50 years, and has two grown children.

Maggie is a battered wife. When she finally defends herself against her abusive and alcoholic husband, her life takes a strange twist that involves a detailed plot to hide his disappearance, and a visit from an apparition from beyond the grave, ending with an unexpected twist that she never imagined.

Rob and his family learn to sail an Irwin 25 sailboat on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay after a glorious trip down the Intra Coastal Waterway to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

A proven method for winning Government contracts, and avoiding the many common mistakes that can snatch defeat from your jaws of victory. Describes how Government agencies buy new products and services, and what you must do to win new contracts. Mr. Ransone has 50 years experience in and around Government contracting, and his win ratio is 65%--twice the national average.