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by Federal Aviation Adm Publisher Comments The fundamental skills and essential information necessary for piloting airplanes are introduced in this beginning aviator's guide. Pilots wishing to improve their flying proficiency and aeronautical knowledge, flyers preparing for additional... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Mark Publisher Comments Whether you're thinking about taking flying lessons or already are a student, this refreshing guide focuses on everything you need to know about becoming a pilot. Find out how to choose a flight instructor who's right for you. Learn what type of aircraft... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bertrand Piccard Synopsis A roller-coaster adventure of emotional highs and lows. aLibrary Journal Into the real thin air: The gripping story of the history-making around-the-world balloon flight as told by the pilots themselves. In this dramatic and inspiring account... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Lindberg Synopsis Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic flight in 1927. Chosen as one of the "100 Greatest Adventure Books" of all time by National Geographic Adventure magazine.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joe Sutter Publisher Comments 747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies" -- the Boeing 747 -- as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the twentieth century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Born in 1921 in Seattle, Sutter grew up on... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Phaedra Hise Publisher Comments Examines and re-creates the fateful events of an expert pilot??'s crash off Cape... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chuck Yeager Publisher Comments General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jere Longman Publisher Comments On the evening of September 14, as the sun set over the flag-draped county courthouse in Somerset, Pennsylvania, fifteen hundred mourners gathered together as Governor Tom Ridge presided over a memorial to the passengers and crew of United Flight 93. In... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Abrams Publisher Comments The Wright Brothers were wimps. Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals: the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds. People have been dying to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Federal Aviation Adm Publisher Comments Required reading for pilots for more than 25 years, this handbook is used extensively as a reference source for the FAA Knowledge Exams and provides information for training and guiding student pilots. Including basic knowledge that is essential for all... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jere Longman Publisher Comments Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance.At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ernest Kellogg Gann Publisher Comments "This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Delmar Benjamin Publisher Comments Here's the inside story of the creation of the Gee Bee R-2 replica, written and photographed by the men who designed and built it. This star of air shows is followed from re-creating the original plans through all stages of construction; on its first... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Fred C Kelly Publisher Comments Engaging story, long considered the definitive biography. Well-documented account, free of technical detail, describes boyhood interests, gliding at Kitty Hawk, their first powered flights, and Wilbur's efforts to revolutionize European aviation. 16... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Von Hardesty Publisher Comments In the 1940s, FDR was the first airborne president, flying several times in a C-54 nicknamed the "Sacred Cow." In the 1950s, it was aircraft known as "Independence," "Columbine II" and "Columbine III" that transported Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Federal Aviation Adm Publisher Comments The newest Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) concerning aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) and pertinent Advisory Circulars are presented in this essential handbook for aviation technicians and repair centerx. Regulations that have changed... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Von Mises Publisher Comments The classic treatment examines probability theory, its relation to statistics, and its truth-finding value. A renowned mathematician, scientist, and philosopher derives the logical concept of "probability"; considers theories of Pascal, Laplace, and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George Bibel Publisher Comments The black box is orange, and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. Beginning... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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