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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication documents a symposium by the George Bush School of Government and Public Service and the Air Force History and Museums Program, which explored aspects of military leadership over the past 100...
The Wright Flyers 1899–1916
The kites, gliders, and aircraft that launched the “Air Age”
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2019
Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept Carolina...
by Keith Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The 1970s were an event-filled and action packed decade for the Royal Air Force. Many events are worthy of note and all are recorded here, in words and images. Keith Wilson takes up from where he left off with RAF In Camera 1960s in order to take us on a journey through a particularly significant...
Aces, Airmen and The Biggin Hill Wing
A Collective Memoir 1941 - 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
During the Second World War, RAF Biggin Hill was one of Fighter Command’s premier stations. Throughout the Battle of Britain and beyond, it became a hotbed of talent and expertise, home to many of the Command’s most notable and successful squadrons. Both on the ground and in the air, Biggin Hill...
by Sydney Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
A brash, funny, and downright ballsy ode to the ups and downs of life in the air.Diary of a Pissed-Off Flight Attendant is an eye opening, behind the scenes, indiscreet account based on almost two decades of aviation industry experience. Combining a unique blend of hilarious customer antics with the...
An Eye in the Sky
The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Career of Air Commodore Henry George Crowe MC, CBE, CBD (SC)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an observer with the RFC and fledgling RAF, a pilot in Ireland at the time of the Irish War of Independence, a photographic officer and flight commander in...
Eugene Ely, Daredevil Aviator
First Shipboard Landing and Takeoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Eugene Burton Ely was buried the day after his 25th birthday, less than a half-mile from where he was born. No sooner had he captured the world’s eye and gained the fame he sought, than he crashed into the earth. Until 1911, the last year of his life, hardly anyone knew his name. More than a century...
A Jet Powered Life
Allen E. Paulson, Aviation Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Raised on a bankrupt farm along the Mississippi River, Allen E. Paulson would become owner of the Fortune 500 aerospace empire Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. He began his career as an airplane mechanic, later setting world records as a pilot and developing unique military and civilian jets. Paulson...
by Richard Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Sam Elworthy’s career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learning to learning to fly he joined the RAAF. During the Second World War he won the DFC, DSO and AFC and, after commanding 82 Squadron, worked closely with...
The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance visual interest a large collection of photographs, many hitherto unpublished, has been added. Some of these relate...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication explores aerial interdiction—the practice of attacking the unengaged potential of enemy armies—as the U.S. Air Force has employed it in three wars: World War II, the Korean conflict, and...
Silvered Wings
The Memoirs of Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Severne KCVO OBE AFC DL
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
John Severne joined the RAF in 1944 and gained his wings two months after World War II ended. This book captures the author’s great passion for flying, whether it be in jet-fighters, light aircraft, helicopters or making model planes and gives details of his long a illustrious career.
His...
Airplane Stories and Histories
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Airplane Stories and Histories chronicles two hundred years of aviation highlights including the exploits of pioneers such as Sir George Cayley, the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Amelia Earheart, R. J. Mitchell, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Alland Loughead, Frank Whittle, and Kelly...
I Won't Be Home Next Summer
Flight Lieutenant R.N. Selley DFC (1917–1941)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart few guessed at the brewing storm and dark days to come. After completing his training on antiquated...