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At All Costs
How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing...
Black Sheep One
The Life of Gregory Pappy Boyington
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington.In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the “wings of gold” of a naval aviator. After only a short period on active duty, however, he was “encouraged” to resign from the Marine...
by Doug Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Imagine you're sitting next to a pilot on a flight and he's eager to answer all those nagging questions you have about air travel. Are those bumps and noises normal? Why are some take-offs delayed? What happens if there's a storm? How does this plane stay in the air, anyway? In From the Flight Deck:...
by Robert Firth
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Tenerife, the worst accident in aviation history; like all pilots, Captain Van Zantenâs decision to go for the take-off was only one of the many thousands of decisions he had made in his career. Rain, snow or fog obscuring the view of the entire runway was not uncommon and something he had...
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly...
Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy
The Army Air Corps and the Challenge to Seapower
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was more interested in disarmament than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell’s War recounts the struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the resources needed...
The Lightning Boys
True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“A good read both to aviators in general and to the Lightning fraternity in particular” (Royal Air Force Historical Society).
According to a recent international study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. With over twenty individual stories from former Lightning...
by Mark Wagner,Guy Norris
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has already generated more excitement--and more orders--than any commercial airplane in the company's...
Flying the Buccaneer
Britains Cold War Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surfaces to increase lift when landing.
The Ice Pilots
Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
As seen on TV!
The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From...
Four Degrees Celsius
A Story of Arctic Peril
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways...
Skytrucker
Incidents, Accidents and Romantic Attachments Gathered over Forty Years in Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2002
Air travel is an almost essential part of everyday life. A significant proportion of travelers are curious about what is actually happening on the flight deck. This book, based on forty years of personal experiences, takes the reader into the cockpit.
Written in a humorous style, it relates...
Lightning from the Cockpit
Flying the Supesonic Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
The English Electric Lightning was the only single-seat supersonic interceptor fighter designed and manufactured in the UK. It saw service with the RAF in the sixties and seventies and gained a worthy reputation for its speed ( in excess of Mach 2 ) and phenomenal rate of climb. It was, however, a...
by Gib Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Since its first flight on 15 December 2009, the Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' has been the most sophisticated airliner in the world. It uses many advanced new technologies to offer unprecedented levels of performance with minimal impact on the environment. Flying the Boeing 787 gives a pilot's eye view...