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High Speed Flow (Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics) by C J Chapman Publisher Comments High-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research- workers in fluid dynamics.... (read more) List Price $163.50 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aircraft: The Jet as Art by Jeffrey Milstein Publisher Comments Often it takes an artist to show us that the familiar is in fact truly remarkable. Jeffrey Milsteins elegant photographs of commercial airliners have quickly become contemporary icons, published in 2005 in "photomagazin, Graphis Photo Annual," and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant by Rene Foss Publisher Comments This hilarious book confronts every aspect of a flight attendants absurd worldfrom the endless array of passenger demands, to the secret language of flight attendants, and a unique version of the Safety Demo Shuffle. Fasten your seatbelt and prepare... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Become a Pilot: The Step-By-Step Guide to Flying by Federal Aviation Administration Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (Sloan Technology) by T A Heppenheimer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Flying the Private Pilot Flight Test: A Manual by Ron Fowler Publisher Comments Everything a pilot or student pilot needs to know and practice for the private pilot certificate flight test is covered logically and in detail in Flying the Private Pilot Flight Test. This thorough, clearly written manual explains exactly what will be... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $12.95 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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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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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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The Vital Guide to Commercial Aircraft by Robert Hewson Synopsis An indispensable, up-to-date reference work detailing well over 100 of the world's most significant airlines. Each entry details the history, current status, and future plans of the major passenger and freight carriers worldwide. The Vital Guide to Major... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Stories of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet by Elliot Hester Publisher Comments You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cambridge Aerospace #04: Flight Mechanics of High-Performance Aircraft by Nguyen X Vinh Publisher Comments Beginning with an introduction to equations of motion, aerodynamic forces, and propulsion systems, this text covers all aspects of flight performance of modern-day, high-performance aircraft, from take-off to landing, through different phases of flight... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $45.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A First Course in Turbulence by H Tennekes Publisher Comments The subject of turbulence, the most forbidding in fluid dynamics, has usually proved treacherous to the beginner, caught in the whirls and eddies of its nonlinearities and statistical imponderables. This is the first book specifically designed to offer... (read more) Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Instrument Flying by Richard L Taylor Publisher Comments The fourth edition of the perennial best-seller. Fully updated, with everything the private pilot needs to know about flying IFR, such as handling emergencies, filing flight plans, understanding IFR communications, navigating, and flying more efficiently.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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One Zero Charlie by Laurence Gonzalez Synopsis Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Avoiding Common Pilot Errors (Tab Practical Flying Series) by John Stewart Publisher Comments This important book brings an air traffic controller's perspective to the mistakes pilots commonly make in controlled airspace. Veteran controller John Stewart has spent years observing pilots display their lack of education, lack of flight preparation... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Future Flight: The Next Generation of Aircraft Technology by William D Siuru Publisher Comments Advances in aerodynamics, propulsions systems, avionics, materials artificial intelligence, and manufacturing techniques will all shape tomorrow's aviation, and this fully illustrated book offers a well-trained telescope to the future of flight.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight by Fred Culick Publisher Comments On the eve of the hundredth anniversary of the historic events at Kitty Hawk comes a splendidly illustrated account of the legendary twelve-second flight that changed the world forever. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright took to the air for... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $8.25 Used - Hardcover
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