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Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story by James Greiner Publisher Comments Don Sheldon has been called 'Alaska's bush pilot among bush pilots', but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-risk landing to the rescue of others from certain death... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D Crouch Publisher Comments "Crouch (A Dream of Wings) interweaves family drama with the history of aviation in a riveting saga of ingenuity, competing claims, public adulation and technical innovation".--Publishers Weekly. Photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K Gann Publisher Comments Ernest K. Ganns classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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 $18.00 Your price: $5.50 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: $9.95 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 $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger by Joe Kittinger Publisher Comments Kittinger, joined by author Craig Ryan, documents the heights of his extraordinary aeronautical career.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane by T A Heppenheimer Publisher Comments How did a couple of bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, accomplish what some of the greatest minds in the world had been trying and failing to achieve for an entire century? Dumb luck? Trial and error? Or were the Wright brothers superb engineers whose... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesle Sullenberger Publisher Comments On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in aviation history when Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the surface of the Hudson River, saving... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck Publisher Comments Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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First To Fly: the Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin Synopsis The story of how the brilliant and determined Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville beat often unscrupulous rivals to become the first to fly. James Tobin recounts a time when flight seemed crazy and tantalizing and describes the Wrights' twisting path... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ascent: How One Quadriplegic Fought for a Full Life and Soared by Bruce Mcghie Publisher Comments Rendered quadriplegic at 22, aspiring airforce pilot McGhie writes a straight-forward, compelling autobiography of the challenges, disappointments and successes of his life. Now in his sevenites, McGhie has been CEO of his own company and is also a... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $12.50 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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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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Bent Props and Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying by Rex Terpening Publisher Comments Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew "on operations... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham Publisher Comments His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma. Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Solo: My Adventures in the Air (Shannon Ravenel Books) by Clyde Edgerton Publisher Comments When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a flight to Texas for Air Force pilot... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation by William F Trimble Book News Annotation Trimble (history, Auburn U., Alabama) offers a biography of pioneer aviator and aircraft designer, Curtiss (1878-1930), focusing on his efforts from 1910 to design planes that could be used in naval warfare. His perspectives are young and restless... (read more) Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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