Aviation History
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:Lowell Thomas

Across the wide expanse of the forty-eight states, millions of people are gazing hopefully at newspaper bulletin boards or leaning over their radios, anxiously awaiting the news that all goes ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Goss [Chris Goss]

At the end of July 1942, he was posted to the Eastern Front, his last victory with II./JG 26 being his eighty-third, on 20 June 1942. He was posted to ...
( Category: World War II February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Leslie Dawson

Catalina departing RAF Kogalla circa 1944. AUTHOR COLLECTION The idea of re-establishing contact between Australia and London arose again in October 1943, when talks between Hudson Fysh and BOAC considered ...
( Category: Aviation History February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” —Thomas Edison After their 1903 success at Kitty Hawk, Wilbur and Orville chose ...
( Category: World February 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Sterling Hayden

CHAPTER 42 High water. A schooner lies to a wharf. Her sheer is proud as it runs up to her bows from a low point amidships. Old men lounge in ...
( Category: Boating January 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-09-19 | Author:Eileen F. Lebow

A confident Harriet Quimby, America’s first licensed woman pilot, prepares to take off as Gustav Hamel gives a last-minute assist. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, INC. Lowering from about ...
( Category: Women September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adobe-Air

9.6 Anzeigezustand von nativen Fenstern Neben der Größe und der Position existiert als Eigenschaft eines nativen Fensters auch dessen Anzeigezustand. Die Anzeigezustände der nativen Fenster in AIR-Anwendungen orientieren sich an ...
( Category: JavaScript November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

May ended as badly as it began for Wilbur and Orville. On the twenty-ninth of that month, Glenn Curtiss completed the first true cross-country flight in the United States and ...
( Category: Scientists June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Sally Putnam Chapman & Stephanie Mansfield [CHAPMAN, SALLY PUTNAM]

12 A CONGRESSIONAL HERO JANUARY 29, 1929 It’s shocking! I’m becoming a shrew, a nag a scenemaker. I, who loathe all three. Would to God, I could suddenly become a ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Beryl Markham [Markham, Beryl]

XIII Na Kupa Hati M’zuri THE RED-JAWED RUSSIAN SQUINTS over his glass of vodka, swallows, and snorts from the bottom of his belly. ‘Leopard?’ he says. ‘Pah! I have fought ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Tom Clancy; John Gresham

AGM-88 HARM On May 1st, 1960, over the farmlands of central Russia, a small air battle took place that forever changed the nature of air warfare. Almost 13 miles/21 kilometers ...
( Category: War & Military March 25,2014 )