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by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The Huntington in San Marino, California, is one of the world's foremost collections of books, art and flora. Set in park-like grounds and a Beaux-Arts mansion built in the early 1900s, the Huntington boasts some of the rarest and most valuable artifacts on Earth from the Gutenberg Bible on vellum,...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Daniel Drew was a robber baron in every sense of the term. He loved to be hated. He was into money for the game. Making money was great, but making it while stabbing someone in the back was better, and if the victim was his partner, electrifying. Yet, he could defraud someone one day and somehow wheedle...
Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant
True Tales and Gossip from the Galley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley!
Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead - flying to exotic destinations, swanning about...
by Gib Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Since its first flight on 27 April 2005, the Airbus A380 has been the largest passenger airliner in the world. Instantly recognizable with its full-length upper deck, it represents the pinnacle of modern airliner design. Flying the A380 gives a pilot's eye view of what it is like to fly this mighty...
Topgun Days
Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor...
Flying on Instinct: Canada's Bush Pilot Pioneers
Canada's Bush Pilot Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold, snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and...
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...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly...
by Ace Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation is a memoir of an adventurous and fun-loving pilot who experienced a unique and tumultuous career. An additional theme of this book is an insider's view of the commercial aviation industry and the degradation of safety that results when concern...
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...
Requiem for a Giant
A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe's most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap.
In Requiem for a Giant:...
Emergency
Crisis on the Flight Deck
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Emergency is a collection of true stories about events where disaster seems imminent. Yet each situation is concluded without loss of life thanks to the skill of the pilots and their crews, whose bravery and resourcefulness have earned them well-deserved commendations. Written by a British Airways...
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...