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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: $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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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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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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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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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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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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How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History by Orville Wright Publisher Comments Filled with rare photographs and featuring accounts written by the Wright Brothers themselves, this fascinating firsthand history covers the brothers' early experiments, their construction of planes and motors, the first test flights, life after Kitty... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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 $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Controlled Crash: An Airline Odyssey, from Eels and Ethics to Blimps and Drunken Bears by Eldon Brown Publisher Comments Pilots like to say that every safe landing is really just a controlled crash. In this witty and entertaining memoir of his airline career, Eldon Brown whisks us back to the heyday of the airline industry, when it was fun to fly and salesmanship was a... (read more) Your price: $6.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Wrong Stuff?: Attempts at Flight Before (& After) the Wright Brothers by Phil Scott Publisher Comments The first book-length pictorial review of aviation history told through its most creative disasters, The Wrong Stuff? is published in association with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. It is published to coincide with the 100th anniversary... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Rotorcraft/Helicopter for Private and Commercial Pilots (Practical Test Standards Series) by Faa Staff Publisher Comments The FAA'S concise Study aids for passing the checkride. The Practical Test Standards (PTS) series guides student pilots, flight instructors, and FAA-designated examiners through checkrides, the final test in acquiring a pilot license. Each PTS guide... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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