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Russian Piston Aero Engines by Vladimir Kotelnikov Publisher Comments The Russian aircraft industry has, over the years, produced a staggering number of aircraft, large and small, for civil and military purposes. These aircraft have been powered by an equally extraordinary number of engines, built in Russian factories to... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Boeing Jetliners (Enthusiasts Color Series) by Guy Norris Publisher Comments A full-color celebration of the Boeing family of jetliners. Each day millions of passengers fly to their destinations in 737s, 727s, 707s, 757s, 767s, 747s and the new 777s. Here Norris and Wagner combine various liveries with Boeing specifications to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 by Julie Hedgepeth Williams Synopsis In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first American civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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High Speed Flow (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics) by C J Chapman Publisher Comments High-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research- workers in fluid dynamics.... (read more) List Price $163.50 Your price: $33.74 Sale - Hardcover
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20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Amelia Earhart Publisher Comments Commemorating the 75th anniversary of her first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, "20 Hrs., 40 Min." reintroduces Amelia Earhart--one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century--to a new generation of readers. 20 photos. Map.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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West With the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler Publisher Comments Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Huntsville Air and Space (Images of Aviation) by T. Gary Wicks Publisher Comments The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will Quick's design and construction of a flying machine, which he demonstrated in 1908 for patenting and manufacture. The space age began in Huntsville a half century later with the advent of... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $16.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham by Mary S Lovell Publisher Comments Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a notorious beauty. She trained race horses and had scandalous affairs, but she is most remembered for being a pioneering aviatrix. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Airlife's Airliners #16: Airbus A330/40 by Robert Hewson Publisher Comments The initial production version of the A330 was designated -300. It flies with a crew of two and can accommodate up to 440 passengers to a range of 6,329 miles at Mach 0.86. The A330 was the first Airbus design to be offered with engines from all three... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Historical Dictionary of Aviation: From Earliest Times to Present Day by David Wragg Publisher Comments Aviation expert David Wragg has written the definitive reference work on the history of aviation. International in scope, the dictionary has more than 4,000 entries, covering all aspects of aviation terminology, past and present. It defines... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $9.74 Sale - Hardcover
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Avoiding Common Pilot Errors (Tab Practical Flying Series) by John Stewart Publisher Comments This important book brings an air traffic controller's perspective to the mistakes pilots commonly make in controlled airspace. Veteran controller John Stewart has spent years observing pilots display their lack of education, lack of flight preparation... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Thomas Kessner Publisher Comments In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Heroic Flights: The First 100 Years of Aviation by John Frayn Turner Publisher Comments The First 100 Years of Aviation. A superb read for both the layman and aviation specialist alike. Traces the history of aviation through its vivid descriptions of milestone moments.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Understanding Flight by David F Anderson Publisher Comments Get to the heart of how planes fly Never before has it been so easy to grasp how planes fly! Of keen importance to pilots, essential to engineers, and intriguing even to the earthbound, the principles of flight are often parroted but widely misunderstood.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stars of the Sky Legends All: Illustrated Histories of Women Aviation Pioneers by Ann Lewis Cooper Publisher Comments With the full force of culture and convention ranged against them, women have nonetheless been taking to the air almost from the first. And because of all the obstacles they have faced, these women in aviation have had to show a rare degree of courage... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Flying Book by David Blatner Publisher Comments Whether you fear, thrill at, or, like many, have never bothered to stop and think about the wonder of commercial flight, The Flying Book will inform, surprise, reassure, and entertain. David Blatner takes readers from the cockpit to the runway, the... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Aim/Far (AIM/FAR: Airman's Information Manual/Federal Aviation Regulations) by Charles F Spence Publisher Comments Today's Leading Guide to Federal Aviation Rules and Regulations-Now Updated with the Latest Changes The only edited and annotated guide to federal aviation regulations, AIM/FAR 2008 arms you with the latest federally required rules for general aviation... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop by Brenden Lynch Synopsis On 14 June 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown took off from Newfoundland in their open-cockpit Vickers Vimy converted bomber to attempt a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic. Some 16 hours later they landed at Derrygimla in Connemara, Ireland, to... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation by Eilleen Lebow Publisher Comments The fascinating stories of the world's first women... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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