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Wild Adventures of the New Aviators

Author : Brian Milton
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399048651
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Wild Adventures of the New Aviators written by Brian Milton and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thrilling excursions from aviation including paragliding, hang-gliding, paramotoring and micro-lighting. Soaring over forest fires, a moonlight New Year’s Eve flight over the Pennines, bungee-jumping from a paraglider as a birthday celebration, jumping off Mount Everest, or numerous several-hundred-mile flights over open country and on different continents. This book covering many exhilarating and enthralling stories from New Aviation – including paragliding, hang-gliding, paramotoring and micro-lighting – has them all. There is even the story of a pilot using flexwings to teach geese how to migrate – and of a marriage proposal at 500 feet. The challenges explored by the renowned New Aviation expert Brian Milton includes Rich Pfieffer’s legal charges of assault with a deadly weapon for flying a hang-glider over California’s Rose Bowl American College Football competition, or Judy Leden’s balloon drop from 40,000 feet over Jordan, with Israel on one side and Saudi on the other, despite her eyes being frozen shut. Along with this latter story, the author also discusses how women overcame prejudice and scorn to take on the men in the deathly arid wastes of Owens Valley, and the ways in which eagles and vultures – and sometimes crows – reacted violently to humans flying in their air and at their speed. The author describes the return to competitions in which the original British innovators lost their dominant status and how new champions emerged. A chapter is also devoted entirely into the tragedies that have befallen some pilots. This includes a chilling account of the Great Italian Killer Storm of 1989 when six top pilots lost their lives in just one day. As well as relating the dramatic stories about those that died, the author explains why, despite the risks, the New Aviators keep flying. The final story is about the Beau Ideal, the great Swiss pilot Didier Favre, ‘Vagabond of the skies’, who traveled 1,111 kilometres from Monaco to Slovenia. Brian Milton also explains how the ultimate ambitions of the best flyers is to learn how to migrate, using only the power of the wind and the sun. The author concludes this book by exploring what the future might hold for the various forms of New Aviation and those who enjoy the thrills that they create.

The Vagabond's Way

Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593497473
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Vagabond's Way written by Rolf Potts and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers—from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book’s various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: “All life-affecting journeys—and the unexpected wonders they promise—become real the moment you decide they will happen.” • embracing the rhythms of the journey: “The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.” • finding richer travel experiences: “Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.” • expanding your comfort zone: “No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.” The Vagabond’s Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren’t able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.

Air Vagabonds

Author : Anthony J. Vallone
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344657
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Air Vagabonds written by Anthony J. Vallone and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air force of pilots—ferry pilots—willing to fly thousands of planes to clients in every corner of the globe. Long-range solo flying is not for everyone, and it attracted a cast of eccentric, unforgettable mavericks who flew from one misadventure to the next, battling storms, desert winds, aircraft malfunctions, primitive navigational aids, loneliness, chemical imbalances, and dangerous Third World politics. Some carried on international scams and love affairs, some were lost at sea, some imprisoned by African despots. They’re all here, described with humor and high drama by one of their own, a survivor with phenomenal recall, a knack for distinguishing character from bluster, and a great ear for dialogue and aviation lore.

A Sea Vagabond's World

Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090215
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Sea Vagabond's World written by Bernard Moitessier and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Moitessier was one a gifted writer and of the greatest ocean voyagers of all time.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1941 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-12 (1941)

Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vagabond in Literature

Author : Arthur Compton-Rickett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vagabond in Literature written by Arthur Compton-Rickett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.

Adult Catalog: Title

Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Adult Catalog: Title written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems, Songs, Ballads

Author : Carroll Ryan
Publisher : s.n.], 1903 (Montreal : Printed by J. Lovell)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems, Songs, Ballads written by Carroll Ryan and published by s.n.], 1903 (Montreal : Printed by J. Lovell). This book was released on 1903 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books in Print

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 2202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fibre & Fabric

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Fibre & Fabric written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pound in Your Pocket, 1870-1970

Author : Peter Wilsher
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pound in Your Pocket, 1870-1970 written by Peter Wilsher and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Technical Books

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Technical Books written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Turbulent Skies

Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Turbulent Skies written by T. A. Heppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling and informative, Turbulent Skies will enthrall aviation buffs and prove a valuable resource for all those interested in business and technology in the twentieth century.

Heroes Without Legacy

Author : Dean Jaros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Without Legacy written by Dean Jaros and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aside from Amelia Earhart, America's earliest airwomen and their achievements remain largely unknown to the public. While enjoying widespread media attention in the twenties, thirties, and forties, America's female pilots lapsed into obscurity following World War II, denying current generations of women a promising cadre of role models. This book pays tribute to these spectacular pioneers: Katherine Stinson, Louise Thaden, World War II's Women Airforce Pilots, and many others." "Heroes Withowut Legacy examines basic features of the dramatic and exciting period between 1912 and 1944, when aviation began to mature both technically and commercially and when airwomen were competing head-to-head with men in record-breaking flights. During this period, women were among the entrepreneurs and innovators. They participated in the establishment of transportation routes and the transition from open cockpit biplanes to machines with practical cabins." "Examining the important role they played in fields as diverse as racing and aerial navigation, Dean Jaros probes the reasons why the substantial accomplishments of these women have been so neglected and reflects on whether the airwomen themselves might not have affected their own future in more positive ways. Rather than popularize or glorify the airwomen, Jaros provides an interpretive assessment of these individuals and the circumstances that influenced their lives." "Illustrated with eighteen photographs, most never before published, Heroes Without Legacy not only addresses a glaring historical deficiency but documents a recent resurgence of interest in these women aviators."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Radio Times

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Radio Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: