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Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the spitfires which won the Battle of Britain to the U.S. Army Air Corps Mustangs that escorted the bomber assaults on Germany, this story takes you right over the front lines. It's the most complete film collection of pilots, their planes and their daring that turned the tables on the air power of Germany, Italy and Japan. From the film archives of England, Germany, Italy, and the U.S., these air battles of World War II put you right in the...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is the first biography of Nadine Ramsey, a stunt and racing pilot who served as one of 1,102 Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. The WASP flew domestic flights for the military, freeing up male pilots to enter the European and Pacific theatres of war. Nadine was one of only 303 women who ferried military aircraft. She was also the first Kansas woman to obtain a Civil Aeronautics Authority private flying license, and...
785) Big machines two
Series
Publisher
Fred Levine Productions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the excitement of a day on the job with real firefighters, see jet travel from the control tower to the cockpit, and learn about recycling and waste handling"--Container.
786) Above the trenches
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the...
Author
Publisher
Clovercroft Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Pilot and world champion runner Orville Rogers broke two world records at his first national meet in 2008. He was 90 years old. He continues to compete, and invariably, he wins. Orville's story is about the good guy finishing first, and he will tell you in no uncertain terms that all the good in his life--and there has been much--comes directly from God. During his 60-year career in flight, he trained WWII fighter pilots, carried out secret missions...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that his father was part of. One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The event was recently depicted in the Steven Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies. Powers...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime in the RAF, Group Captain Bob Allen, finally allowed his children and grandchildren to see his official flying log. It contained the line: "KILLED IN ACTION." He refused to answer any further questions, leaving instead a memoir of his life during World War II. Joining up aged 19, within six months Bob was in No.1 Squadron flying a Hurricane in a dogfight over the Channel. For almost two years he lived in West Africa, fighting Germany's...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, amongst other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War,...
795) The $25,000 flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This Totally True Adventures book follows America's first superstar pilot, Charles Lindbergh. In the 1920s, flying was brand new--and very dangerous. A $25,000 prize for the first flight from New York to Paris went unclaimed for years. Many teams tried. And many teams failed. Still, Charles Lindbergh felt he had a shot at the prize. He wasn't famous. He wasn't rich. But he was determined. He'd cross the ocean in a tiny plane, and he'd do it all by...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Instrumentality Project comes to its apocalyptic conclusion. With the earth now covered in a sea of LCL, every human consciousness in the world has become one -- a combined entity waiting to be reborn. Deep within Lilith, Shinji comes face to face with everything he ever knew, loved and feared. The fate of the world is in his hands, and the choice he makes will doom or redeem humanity. Everything ends here. Everything begins here. This is the...
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press, An imprint of Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Plucked from every background and led by an NKVD major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on October 16, 941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the members of the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-Bomber Regiment, and the 588th Regiment of Light Night-Bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history. Drawing...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child ofcomplicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flight across the Atlantic. Featuring rare archival footage.
