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The Crowd Pleasers
A History of Airshow Misfortunes from 1910 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The true stories of the most daring of pilots—and the deadly risks they take to thrill the audiences below.
In the early days of aviation, spectators gathered whenever a new flying machine attempted to leave the ground. The trick was to get them to pay. Takeoffs and landings did not sell...
by William Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The history of US Airways begins in 1939 as All American Aviation, flying single-engine Stinson Reliant aircraft to carry mail under a contract by the US Postal Service. By 1953, All American became Allegheny Airlines with the goal to become one of America�s premier airlines in the East. Allegheny...
Flight Lessons 1: Basic Flight
How Eddie Learned the Meaning of it All
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Flight Lessons is a collection of hundreds of professional pilot procedures and techniques. Volume One, Basic Flight, includes the first 30 such lessons as they were learned by Eddie, the author's alter ego, in story form. Each chapter concludes with the lesson on graph paper, updated for the aviation...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A United Airlines DC-3 plunged into San Francisco Bay on February 9, 1937. For more than a month the cause of the tragedy that killed 11 people remained a mystery. Then an American Airlines DC-3 experienced a problem that aviation experts linked to the DC-3 mystery in the Bay area. This finding was...
La-5/7 vs Fw 190
Eastern Front 1942–45
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Soviet fighter aviation suffered terribly at the hands of the Jagdwaffe in the first year of the war in the east and, with the arrival of JG 51 and its Fw 190s on the Stalingrad Front in September 1942, things only got worse. However, help was on its way in the form of the La-5. Tougher, faster, and...
RAF Fighter Pilots Over Burma
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
It is a recognized fact that, had the war gone badly for the Allies on the India/Burma front, and had the Japanese succeeded in invading the Indian Continent, the outcome of the war would have been entirely different. Yet despite this, the campaign on the Burma front is offered surprisingly scant...
Dog Fight
Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
The history of WWI aviation is a rich and varied story marked by the evolution of aircraft from slow moving, fragile, and unreliable powered kites, into quick, agile, sturdy fighter craft. At the same time there emerged a new kind of 'soldier', the fighter pilots whose individual cunning and bravery...
X-Planes
German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle. They remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage either because they were deemed unsuitable or the developers simply ran out...
by Mike Wickson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This new third edition of 'Meteorology for Pilots' has been modified to satisfy all aspects of the meteorological requirements necessary to be JAR compliant. It also discusses the latest data concerning global warming and its consequences, especially in relation to the El Nino effect.For aviation...
Nuremberg: The Blackest Night in RAF History
30/31 March 1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This is a brand-new, updated history of the Nuremburg Raid, taking advantage of new stores of information that have come to light in recent years. In his usual, highly-praised style, Martin Bowman's historical narrative is supplemented throughout by first-hand snippets of pilot testimony, offering...
Danger and Poetry
One Glider Pilot's First Hundred Hours, from Flight School to Rescue Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Joe Karam was born to transcend, but perhaps not to fly. When at twenty-seven his quest for freedom led him to set foot in a glider for the first time, he was overcome with fear and desire. Nothing seemed to have prepared him for such a formidable test of courage, nor did he know anything about Charlie,...
by Gian Piero Milanetti
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
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A Bomber Crew Mystery
The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
An antique trophy inspires a quest to uncover the history of an outstanding crew of WWII airmen who first flew into combat on D-Day.
After discovering a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antique shop, author David Price endeavored to tell the stories of the men whose names had been engraved...
by Phil H. Listemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The purpose of this study is to provide aviation historians and enthusiasts with a range of information relative to each of the Commonwealth squadrons that saw combat during World War II. Each record will comprise a short history, complete with illustrations and artwork, and accompanied by the following:
Appendix...