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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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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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Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Fred C Kelly Publisher Comments "For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man," wrote Wilbur Wright just over 100 years ago. "My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Beryl Markham is also the author of The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham. Growing up in East... (read more) List Price $16.00 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: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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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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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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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Daughter of the Air: The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort by Rob Simbeck Publisher Comments Praised by the Daily Oklahoman as "touching and entertaining," Rob Simbeck's biography of Cornelia Fort is wonderfully evocative and moving. Like Beryl Markham's and Amelia Earhart's, Cornelia Fort's daring life as a pilot was both inspiring and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Vagabonds of the Sky by Bruce Mcallister Publisher Comments VAGABONDS OF THE SKY documents the lives of the barnstormers and wing walkers, from the roaring 1920s to present day. Historical photography captures the excitement, thrills, and spills of their aerial exploits. Some of these famous barnstormers are... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle: Light Attack Bomber by Yefim Gordon Synopsis The IL-28 entered service with the USSR Air force in 1950 and has often been dubbed "The Russian Canberra". It served with the airforces of Egypt, China, Czechoslovakia and Poland, in addition to the USSR. This is an in-depth study of this long-serving... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Aircraft: The Jet as Art by Jeffrey Milstein Publisher Comments Often it takes an artist to show us that the familiar is in fact truly remarkable. Jeffrey Milsteins elegant photographs of commercial airliners have quickly become contemporary icons, published in 2005 in "photomagazin, Graphis Photo Annual," and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $23.95 Your price: $15.00 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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