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Publisher
Make Believe TV
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"From Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral, a few women have found "Wings of their own". From record-breaking altitude testing, air races, package delivery services and aerobatics to sightseeing tours, commercial shifts, leisure flights, military service, helicopter support runs, and ventures into space, women have piloted all kinds of aircraft. Wings of their own looks at women pilots over the 20th century through the voices of the women themselves and features...
5) Air shows
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Millions of American spectators flock to air shows for the thrill of seeing precision flying formations of military aviation squadrons, stunt pilots with the traditional style of barnstorming, and for the chance to get an up-close look at antique aircrafts and latest in aviation technology. The Indy 500, Top Gun and the Fourth of July rolled into one venue.
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"At 25, Gene Kranz was a former Air Force pilot working as a flight test engineer for McDonnell Douglas. At 26, he quit his job to work for the fledgling space agency NASA. For the next 34 years, Kranz had the best view of the space program possible without leaving the ground, serving as primary flight director throughout the Gemini and Apollo programs. Based on Kranz's acclaimed memoir of the same name, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION offers an extraordinary...
9) Broken wings
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
California-based aviation archaelogist Pat Macha investigates various airplane crash sites, chiefly military, which are of historic interest. He tries to piece together the answers to mysteries like the 1957 loss of Lt. David Steeves and his Lockheed T-33 Jet; the 1944 disappearance of a P-51 and WASP pilot Gertrude Tompkins Silver, the Army's only female World War II Women Airforce Service (WASP) pilot to remain unaccounted for. At each stop, Macha...
10) The dish
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. This is how the biggest television event in history was almost not televised. Apollo 11 goes to the moon and the first step is to be televised around the globe. But right before the landing, the dish flatlines. It's up to the unconventional Aussie crew and the by-the-book NASA supervisor to work together to fix the dish before the landing occurs.
16) Airport
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.
17) Jet pilot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Language
English
Description
Sent by the Pentagon to obtain top secret information from a supposedly defecting Russian lady pilot, the Colonel courts her so successfully that they fall in love and wed. With their marriage as a perfect cover, he is ordered to flee Russia with his bride, this time with him posing as a defector. When the political charade is discovered, however, the courageous couple embark in a dangerous flight to freedom in a heart-pounding escape with enemy agents...
