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Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space by Sally Armstrong
epub |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Sally Armstrong

The captain wanted to stay as close to the Red Arrows as aviation law would permit. He also wanted to show Concorde off to the crowds below. Not to be ...
( Category: Commercial July 23,2016 )
TWA 800 by Jack Cashill
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Jack Cashill

Chapter: FOURTEEN MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON In late November 2002, I was strolling the concrete banks of Brush Creek, a channelized waterway that runs through the heart of Kansas ...
( Category: History July 8,2016 )
Fighting Hitler's Jets: The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany by Robert F. Dorr
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]

September 8, 1944 Minus Ernst Heinkel himself, the company bearing his name wanted a second chance—following its near success with the Heinkel He 280—to get an operational jet into service. ...
( Category: History May 6,2016 )
1455501964 (N) by Carol Shaben
mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Carol Shaben

At 8:30 that morning, Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, expecting a break in the weather, dispatched a Twin Otter to try and get under the clouds. Just a minute later, its ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )
Concorde by Jonathan Glancey
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Glancey

SEVEN UNPREMEDITATED ART CONCORDE was a singularly beautiful airliner. Concorde was a ravishingly beautiful machine. Concorde was, as so many people have said from all walks of life and around ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2016 )
Stranger to the Ground by Richard Bach
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Bach

That was months ago. These days, in Europe, our formation is not for show but for the business of fighting. A four-ship flight is loose and comfortable when it is ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction March 14,2016 )
A Chick in the Cockpit by Erika Armstrong
epub |eng | | Author:Erika Armstrong

After being away from Lindsey for five days for the first time, I gladly volunteered for nighttime baby duties. It was during those lonely hours that I projected how a ...
( Category: Commercial February 15,2016 )
Howard Pixton by Stella Pixton
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Stella Pixton

Long hops – just as Roe had done as his first attempts at flying. However, persistent as ever that they were the first to fly in Britain, Avro now advertised, ...
( Category: History January 14,2016 )
Aircraft Down by Alec Brew
mobi |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Alec Brew

45. The graves of Jack Owen’s crew in Vire cemetery, just after the War. When they reached the area of the drop they could see no lights. Jack handed over ...
( Category: History November 28,2015 )
China's Wings by Gregory Crouch
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Gregory Crouch [Crouch, Gregory]

The U.S. government listening post in Ventura, California, received a radiogram for Katharine Dunlop Bond on Saturday, December 13, 1941, the first she’d heard from her husband since Pearl Harbor. ...
( Category: History November 16,2015 )
London's Airports by Martin Bowman & Graham Simons
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Martin Bowman & Graham Simons

Two views of the interior of Heathrow’s new Terminal Five, showing the main concourse (above) and check-in area (below). British Airways’ new terminal – now running smoothly after initial hitches. ...
( Category: History September 12,2015 )
The Race for Hitler's X-Planes: Britain's 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology by John Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:John Christopher [Christopher, John]

Once the land-based V-1 launch sites in France had been overrun by the Allies in October 1944 the missiles were air-launched from modified Heinkel He 111 bombers over the North ...
( Category: History July 17,2015 )
Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Mark Vanhoenacker [Vanhoenacker, Mark]

The flight computers can plot abeam points to tell us, for example, when we’ll pass closest to a place—the only nearby major airport along a remote stretch of our route, ...
( Category: Aviation June 20,2015 )
Coffee, Tea or Me? by Donald Bain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Donald Bain [Bain, Donald]

Rachel’s run-in with a lesbian was more bizarre than mine. Rachel always does things on a big scale. She infiltrated a whole den of them quite innocently. She’d become friendly ...
( Category: Commercial June 12,2015 )
Down Around Midnight by Robert Sabbag
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Sabbag

I do not dismiss the value of therapy—I didn’t question my fellow survivors about any help they might have sought—but I have trouble taking it seriously in the forum it ...
( Category: History June 11,2015 )

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