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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 $17.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Under a Wing: A Memoir by Reeve Lindbergh Publisher Comments "We Lindberghs still know ourselves best as a tribe: close-knit, self-enclosed, and self-defining, always prepared to be besieged by invisible forces upwelling from the past...." The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aviation Firsts: 336 Questions and Answers by Joshua Stoff Publisher Comments Fact-filled compendium covers virtually all "firsts" in the history of flight, from the first human being to fly and the first American president to fly to the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blunt Trauma: After the Fall of Flight111 by Ivy Bannister Publisher Comments On September 2, 1998, a fire in the cockpit sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 men, women and children on board perished, including Ivy Bannister’s sister, Patty. Set in Dublin, New York and the... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.50 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: $4.95 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. Complete instructions. 100 black-and-white illustrations. 9 in full color on covers.... (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: $5.95 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: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Contrails by Roger Thompson Publisher Comments In the last year of his career as an American Airlines captain, Roger Thompson met a man who claimed military experience identical to his own. The man was an imposter, but the incident inspired Contrails, a collection of aviation stories spanning Mr... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Around the World in 20 Days: The Story of Our History-Making Balloon Flight by Bertrand Piccard Publisher Comments In this dramatic and inspiring account, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the pilots of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon’, tell the remarkable story of their record-breaking, first-ever around-the-world balloon flight in March 1999, one of the great... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Air Cops by Billy D Robbins Publisher Comments Written by a retired air traffic controller, Air Cops: A Personal History of Air Traffic Control takes a closer look at this adrenaline pumping occupation. Author Billy D. Robbins draws on his experience in this profession to describe navigation systems,... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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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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Safe Air Travel Companion by Dan Mckinnon Publisher Comments FLY WITH CONFIDENCE In Safe Air Travel, an expert in commercial aviation travel and survival calmly and clearly details dozens of practical actions you can take to minimize the risks and manage the realities of aerial hijacking and terrorism. Dan... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Fly the Wing-90-2* by Jim Webb Publisher Comments Fly the Wing discusses the basics and fundamentals that pilots must learn. It then describes how to polish and refine skills as you go on more difficult maneuvers and advanced phases of flight. This book is a professional flight training manual designed... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse Publisher Comments Incorporating interviews he conducted throughout the industry with everyone from company leaders, past and present, and Wall Street analysts to design engineers and factory workers, Newhouse takes readers inside these two firms to understand their... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Test Pilot: 1001 Things You Thought You Knew about Aviation by Barry Schiff Publisher Comments Compiling questions and answers from a popular monthly aviation column into one source, this book is full of fun and educational questions concerning aviation topics. Myths and misconceptions are discussed in a simple format that allows pilots to stretch... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guide to Airport Airplanes: An Illustrated Handbook Allowing Rapid Identification of Airliners Flown Worldwide by Major Airlines by William Berk Publisher Comments Facilitating identification of airliners with its simple-to-use, systematic approach, the Guide features the 66 most commonly observed airliners, all pictured in color photographs while in flight or at interesting airport locales. Capabilities, as well... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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