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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markhams West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exup&... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald L Barlett Publisher Comments Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. 80 photographs. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aviation: A Smithsonian Guide by Donald S Lopez Publisher Comments Aviation From the winged gods of mythology to the technology of the Stealth Bomber, Aviation: A Smithsonian Guide presents the thrilling panorama of world aviation. It combines fast-paced narrative by Flying Tiger pilot Don Lopez with stunning color... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-Flight Accidents by Malcolm MacPherson Publisher Comments Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that's falling out of the sky. Anyone who watches the news knows about the "black box." Officially called the cockpit voice recorder, the black box (which is... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 by Tom D Crouch Publisher Comments When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lindbergh by A Scott Berg Publisher Comments Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline Classics) by David Fisher Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Illustrated Directory of a Century of Manned Flight by Ray Bonds Synopsis All of the major historical events in the field of manned flight are chronicled in this directory that covers both military and civil aircraft - fighters and airliners, helicopters and space shuttles - and the men who flew them. Concise technical details... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Become a Pilot: The Step-By-Step Guide to Flying by Federal Aviation Administration Publisher Comments Updated after 15 years, here is the essential information needed to pass FAA exams for pilot license and advanced certification. "All the knowledge the beginner or intermediate pilot needs."--Aeronautical Journal.270 pages, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sky People: A History of Parachuting by Peter Hearn Publisher Comments This complete history of parachuting relates the sport's excitement, humor, triumph, and tragedy.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever by David M Friedman Publisher Comments He was one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best–selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step – the Lindy Hop – he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Easy-To-Make Decorative Kites: Step-By-Step Instructions for Nine Models from Around the World (Other Paper Crafts) by Alan Bridgewater Publisher Comments Exciting practical guide helps even new kite makers to assemble, test, decorate, and fly magnificent, traditional international kite designs: familiar European Diamond, efficient High-Tech Box, buzzing Guatemalan Sun, swooping New England Ghost, ... (read more) Your price: $4.95 New - Trade Paper
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Worlds Greatest Aircraft by Christopher Chant Publisher Comments Our landscape format Encyclopedia series in the 12 x 9 1/4 trim size have been so popular that we have created a more portable format for those who are interested in a smaller paperback edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color. A great... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dawn Over Kitty Hawk by Walter J Boyne Publisher Comments Walter J. Boyne, the world's foremost historian on aviation and the former director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, presents this fascinating, historically accurate, fictional account of all the cutthroat personalities who strived to be the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.25 Used - Mass Market
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The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside an Investigation by Bill Adair Publisher Comments An award-winning journalist presents the definitive account of the 1994 fatal airline crash of Flight 427 and the subsequent investigation by the Transportation Safety Board. 32 photos.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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Under a Wing: A Memoir by Reeve Lindbergh Synopsis The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and controversial isolationist in World War II; his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was also famous, the author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea and other books. But... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting by Elizabeth Roberson Publisher Comments Georgia Thompson Brownis life follows the history of aviation.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Theory of Flight by Richard Von Mises Publisher Comments Perhaps the most balanced, well-written account of fundamental fluid dynamics ever published. Mises' classic avoids the formidable mathematical structure of fluid dynamics, while conveying -- by often unorthodox methods -- a full understanding of of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon by Nancy Winters Book News Annotation Tells how wealthy Brazilian heir Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) came of age in Paris determined to live out the novels of Jules Verne by developing human flight. Describes how his airships gradually improved so that he was counted brilliant as well as... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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