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West With the Night
West With the Night
by Beryl Markham
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First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.... (read more)

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Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
by Brian Clegg
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“With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.” —Alain de Botton, author of A Week at the Airport, in the Mail on Sunday “Imagine Leonardo da... (read more)

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

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Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
by Wolfgang Langewiesche
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In the early 1940's, Wolfgang Langewiesche wrote a series of articles in Air Facts analyzing the various aspects of piloting techniques. Based on these articles, Langewiesche's classic work on the art of flying was published in 1944. This book explains... (read more)

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The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska
The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska
by Colleen Catherine Mondor
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Northern Exposure meets Air America in this expose of the daily life and death insanity of commercial flying in Alaska The Map of My Dead Pilots is about flying, pilots, and Alaska—and, more specifically, about those pilots who take death... (read more)

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Mather Field (Images of America)
Mather Field (Images of America)
by Special Collections Of The Sacramento Pu
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Born from America's need to train aviators for the Great War, Mather Field has sat sentinel to the east of Sacramento for nearly a century. Overnight, the base transformed a lonely domain of cattle and vineyards into an aerie where fledgling "man-birds... (read more)

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The Focke-Wulf FW 190 in North Africa
The Focke-Wulf FW 190 in North Africa
by Andrew Arthy
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Using official German records, logbooks and personal accounts, the authors tell the little-known story of this rugged fighter's service in Tunisia in the fighter and ground-attack role and assess its technical and military performance.... (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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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
by Chesle Sullenberger
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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)

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Yeager, an Autobiography
Yeager, an Autobiography
by Chuck Yeager
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Chuck Yeager tells his whole life story, from childhood with a hard working father, to breaking the sound barrier, to being a test pilot with the "right stuff".... (read more)

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DC-3: A Legend in Her Time: A 75th Anniversary Photographic Tribute
DC-3: A Legend in Her Time: A 75th Anniversary Photographic Tribute
by Bruce Mcallister
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Documenting the legacy of this beloved aircraft, this comprehensive photographic history celebrates the 75th anniversary of the DC-3. First appearing during the golden age of aviation in the 1930s, the versatile Douglas DC-3 has been used in ... (read more)

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Flight : 100 Years of Aviation (02 Edition)
Flight : 100 Years of Aviation (02 Edition)
by R. G. Grant
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A stunning, visual history of the past one hundred years of aviation utilizes thousands of dramatic images, accompanied by an informative text and captions, to capture humankind's efforts to fly, from the earliest medieval experiments to the dramatic... (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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Reach for the Sky: Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.o., D.F.C.
Reach for the Sky: Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.o., D.F.C.
by Paul Brickhill
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Douglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime. After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, he fought his way back into the cockpit of a Spitfire to become one of the great heroes of the Battle of... (read more)

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Three Across: The Great Transatlantic Air Race of 1927
Three Across: The Great Transatlantic Air Race of 1927
by Norman Finkelstein
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During the summer of 1927, three pilots prepared for a historic journey from Long Island's Roosevelt Field--a nonstop flight between New York and Paris. This work chronicles the daring feats of these courageous adventurers and the aftermath of their... (read more)

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Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
by Sam Howe Verhovek
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built... (read more)

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Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (Sloan Technology)
Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (Sloan Technology)
by T. A. Heppenheimer
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a gripping, in-depth look at how America's $200 billion aviation industry took flight "To understand the industry, this is necessary reading." --The Miami Herald "With the precision of a scientist, a good reporter's marshaling of disparate facts, and the... (read more)

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Out of This World: New Mexico's Contributions to Space Travel.
Out of This World: New Mexico's Contributions to Space Travel.
by Loretta Hall
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Inspired by the Spaceport America commercial space travel project, this book recounts the history of space flight research performed in New Mexico by US government agencies as early as 1930, and the installation of ground-based optical and radio... (read more)

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Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
by Larry E. Tise
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In seven crucial days of spring 1908, the Wright brothers prepared for what they thought would be a season of secret flights at Kitty Hawk, the culmination of five years spent perfecting their planes. However, they were soon discovered by a host of fast-... (read more)

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The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
by Amelia Earhart
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In 1937, she embarked with navigator Fred Noonan on a round-the-world flight that ended when their plane disappeared in the South Pacific. As one of the best-known figures in twentieth-century America, Amelia Earhart-and her fate-remain an object of... (read more)

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