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Describe your new book: This book is the story of my life — the ups, the downs, and the music. If someone were to write your biography, what... Continue »
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    My Cross to Bear

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Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline Classics)

by David Fisher

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Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.

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"Wild Blue" collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. From the soaring to the harrowing, these accounts put readers right in the cockpit. 16 photos.
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ISBN:
9781560252511
Editor:
Fisher, David
Editor:
Garvey, William
Editor:
Garvey, William
Editor:
Editor
Editor:
Fisher, David; Garvey, William; *, EDITOR
Editor:
Fisher, David; Garvey, William
Editor:
Fisher, David
Author:
Garvey, William
Author:
Fisher, David
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Subject:
Aviation - General
Subject:
Airplanes
Subject:
Aviation - History
Subject:
Anecdotes
Copyright:
1999
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Adrenaline Classics (Paperback)
Publication Date:
19991231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
16 B&W photos
Pages:
360
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 19 oz
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