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West with the Night
West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
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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)

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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
by Donald L Barlett
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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)

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Aviation: A Smithsonian Guide
Aviation: A Smithsonian Guide
by Donald S Lopez
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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)

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The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-Flight Accidents
The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-Flight Accidents
by Malcolm MacPherson
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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)

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A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905
A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905
by Tom D Crouch
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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)

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Lindbergh
Lindbergh
by A Scott Berg
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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)

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

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Illustrated Directory of a Century of Manned Flight
Illustrated Directory of a Century of Manned Flight
by Ray Bonds
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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)

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How to Become a Pilot: The Step-By-Step Guide to Flying
How to Become a Pilot: The Step-By-Step Guide to Flying
by Federal Aviation Administration
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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)

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The Sky People: A History of Parachuting
The Sky People: A History of Parachuting
by Peter Hearn
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This complete history of parachuting relates the sport's excitement, humor, triumph, and tragedy.... (read more)

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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
by David M Friedman
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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)

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Easy-To-Make Decorative Kites: Step-By-Step Instructions for Nine Models from Around the World (Other Paper Crafts)
Easy-To-Make Decorative Kites: Step-By-Step Instructions for Nine Models from Around the World (Other Paper Crafts)
by Alan Bridgewater
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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)

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Worlds Greatest Aircraft
Worlds Greatest Aircraft
by Christopher Chant
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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)

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Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
by Walter J Boyne
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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)

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The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside an Investigation
The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside an Investigation
by Bill Adair
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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)

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Under a Wing: A Memoir
Under a Wing: A Memoir
by Reeve Lindbergh
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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)

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Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
by Elizabeth Roberson
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Georgia Thompson Brownis life follows the history of aviation.... (read more)

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Theory of Flight
Theory of Flight
by Richard Von Mises
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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)

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20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Amelia Earhart
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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)

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Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon
Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon
by Nancy Winters
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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)

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