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1) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives...
2) Falling
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --
8) X-15
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth at four times the speed of sound.
9) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1903
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
14) Airplane ride
Author
Publisher
T.Y. Crowell
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A pilot and his small plane soar, loop, and cruise over cities, forests, deserts, and mountains, across the United States.
15) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare's help and will learn there's...
17) Planes
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Dusty [is] a crop duster with sky-high dreams and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take on the world's fastest flyers in the greatest air race ever"--Container. Bonus features include the featurettes Meet the racers; and, Klay's flight plan.
19) Stealing air
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
After visiting the Hall of Flight at the Bearsonian Institution, the Bear cubs decide to invent their own airplanes. Includes information about the history of flight and instructions for making various balloon-powered aircraft.