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Aeronautical Chart User's Guide by Faa Publisher Comments A critical reference tool for any aeronautical navigator, the ninth edition of the Aeronautical Chart User's Guide presents the most up-to-date information on charts adhering to Visual Flight Rule (VFR) and Instrument Flying Rule (IFR). Hundreds of color... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 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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Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight by Joseph J Corn Publisher Comments Into the Blue revisits the remarkable trajectory of Americans in air and space, gathering sixty of the best eyewitness and participant narratives from Benjamin Franklin's letters on the first hot air balloons to Chris Jones's account of being marooned on... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K Gann Publisher Comments Ernest K. Gann's classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships by Tom Crouch Publisher Comments This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race by Richard Bak Publisher Comments The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Fly by Wire by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments In Fly by Wire, one of Americas greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully renders forty years of history in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 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: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2011 by Allan Wright Publisher Comments Civil Aircraft Markings continues to be the enthusiast's bible for its detailed and comprehensive listing of every single British registered aircraft, microlight, balloon, and glider, plus overseas airliners that can been seen in British airspace. In... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 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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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: $1.00 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: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter by James R Chiles Publisher Comments From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpsons Bronco&... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 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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Fly Now! A Colorful Story of Flight from Hot Air Balloon to the 777 "Worldliner". The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Joanne Gernstein London Publisher Comments The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world (90,000 a day in the summertime) and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings by Jay Spenser Publisher Comments The Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brace for Impact: Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life by Dorothy Firman Publisher Comments What Passengers of Flight 1549 Want Others to Know About Second Chances Brace for impact. Three simple words that proclaimed to all 150 passengers on board US Airways Flight 1549 on that cold, crisp New York afternoon of January 15, 2009, that their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rarefied Gas Dynamics: From Basic Concepts to Actual Calculations (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics) by Carlo Cercignani Publisher Comments This work presents the concepts, methods and applications of kinetic theory to rarefied gas dynamics. After introducing the basic tools, Carlo Cercignani treats problems in plane geometry using all the approximation techniques. He later uses these same... (read more) List Price $82.75 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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