epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Dan Hampton

PART THREE By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods. —CHARLES LINDBERGH EIGHT CROSSING THE BRIDGE I’VE FINALLY BROKEN the spell of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gandt, Robert

No one knew for sure how the chicken got in Al Bond’s locker. But there it was one day, when Chicken Man came to the crew lounge and opened his ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Christine Negroni

Deflection The single aisle Boeing 737, introduced in 1968, is Boeing’s best-selling airliner and has flown in nine different versions. On March 3, 1991, a United Airlines 737 crashed preparing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Archard, L. [Archard, L.]

Two views of the Martin factory at Offut, Nebraska, one of four plants where the B-29 Superfortress bomber was assembled. The top picture shows the production line and the second ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Bowman, Martin W [Bowman, Martin W]

Footnotes 80 Rogers later gained a DFM and he was commissioned. He was KIA on 8/9 April 1943 flying as second pilot of a Halifax II on 76 Squadron. 81 ...