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Author : Arthur Ray Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Angel in the Cockpit written by Arthur Ray Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vijaypat Singhania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788174364272
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (642 download)
Download or read book An Angel in the Cockpit written by Vijaypat Singhania and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Vijaypat Singhania's, one of the country's foremost industrialists and Chairman Emeritus of Raymond, flight in the tiny Shadow microlight-a single-seater aircraft-acroos 5000 miles from England to India.
Author : James Lowell Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137643
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)
Download or read book From POW to Blue Angel written by James Lowell Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young naval aviator, Dusty Rhodes was shot down by the Japanese on his first combat mission in World War II. Toughing out the rest of the war in POW camps, he wondered if he would ever fly again. But Rhodes was destined to take flying to new heights. As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. "Dusty" Rhodes participated in developing the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story - a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero. Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews with Dusty and his closest colleagues, as well as Dusty's scrapbooks, flight logs, and prison journal, to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty's cockpit during the team's early years. This was the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark diamond formation and barrel roll, as well as transitioning from prop planes to jet aircraft. This book is also a moving account of the brutality Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war - the beatings, the interrogations, the forced labor - and includes his rare, ground observer's view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. Armstrong captures Dusty's exhilaration and uncertainty in returning to a changed postwar America, and also recounts how Rhodes followed his Blue Angels command with a tour as a fighter pilot in Korea.
Author : Paul J. Spivak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615588209
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Lessons and Guardian Angels written by Paul J. Spivak and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These true adventures are told in a series of fascinating short stories. Besides featuring dramatic and often humorous tales of adventure, this information packed book even has a chapter on how to become an airline pilot and land that airline job. Finally, there is an inspirational message to be persistent, focused and never give up, even when faced with overwhelming odds." -- Back cover.
Author : Patrick Henry Brady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942475606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Dead Men Flying written by Patrick Henry Brady and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of one of the most dangerous aviation operations during the Vietnam War, call-sign Dust Off, in which air ambulances speaheaded the humanitarian efforts that were being executed during the war.
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429961325
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Right Stuff written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author : L. D. Cross
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1927051843
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Flying on Instinct written by L. D. Cross and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold, snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and line of sight. They landed on makeshift runways, glaciers, muskeg, tundra and glassy lakes. Comrades of the wilderness, they were Canada's early bush pilots. L.D. Cross brings us the incredible stories of the brave and enterprising pilots who rolled back the boundaries of western and northern Canada, delivering mail, medicine, miners and all the supplies needed by frontier settlements. Flying such planes as Curtiss, Bellanca, de Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman, Stinson and Vickers, they were the off-roaders of aviation, venturing where no others dared to go. Climb into the cockpit with these pioneering pilots for an exciting trip into Canadian aviation history.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 156311190X
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book USMC/Vietnam Helicopter Association written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Falkner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375869468
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Assault written by Brian Falkner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2030, six teens who have been modified to look like the aliens who are battling for control of Earth go behind enemy lines and discover a shocking, secret alien project.
Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743247477
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Flying written by Richard Bach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-10-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach's most compelling works about flight. From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb into a machine, leave the earth, and fly. Only a handful of writers have translated their experiences in the cockpit into books that have mesmerized generations.
Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473572150
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Imagine a City written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring 'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent more than two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in the cities he'd always longed to see. Imagine a City celebrates the metropolises he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. From the sweeping roads of Los Angeles and the old gates of Jeddah to the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasília, he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home. 'Vanhoenacker... has a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities... Intimate and thoughtful' PICO IYER, AIR MAIL 'A love letter to the cities he's returned to again and again... Vanhoenacker captivates when describing the silent beauty of a world glimpsed from above' Washington Post 'Eloquent... A love song to cities the world over' Wall Street Journal
Author : Angel Pilato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983210818
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Angel's Truck Stop written by Angel Pilato and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you survive when everything you believed about the world is turned upside down? In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, testosterone-fueled fighter pilots take off from Udorn Air Base in Thailand on sorties over dangerous targets in North Vietnam. Some come back, many do not. Into this fog of war enters Captain Pilato, a starry-eyed idealist, assigned to manage the officers' club. The fighter pilots christen the officers' club "Angel's Truck Stop," which becomes the backdrop for the conflicts, challenges, and choices she encounters. It reveals a woman's struggle to fit into a man's world. As the realities of war erode her ideals, she realizes the future doesn't hold the certainties it once did. Angel's Truck Stop is hilarious and at times, heart- wrenching. This memoir keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end.
Author : Skot Keller
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648045197
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Shangri-La 730's Last Flight written by Skot Keller and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shangri-La730’s Last Flight By: Skot Keller Shangri-La730’s Last Flight iz inspired by Malaysia Flight 370, which went missing on March 8th, 2014; it has never been found and remains a mystery az to what happened to it. The people on the Malaysia plane are assumed to be dead, and the people on Shangri-La 730 do not come away mortally alive either. Rest assured that there iz a happy ending for everyone. When an Australian engineer has an idea that he sends out in a mass email about a theory that will lead to a scientific breakthrough, it makes an alien race called the sigla nervous, and they try to squash the idea by commandeering Shangri-La flight 730 in flight. There are humans, extraterrestrials, az well az angels all involved with what happens aboard the plane. This iz importantly a Christian piece of fiction, not factual or scripturally based. Some questions that are explored are: If there are intelligent extraterrestrials, do they have a relation with GOD like humans have a relation with GOD, and how are their spiritual beliefs related to mankind’s? Their GOD and the Christian GOD must be the same because the Creator created everything. Other questions are considered, e.g.: What iz the purpose of life? What iz eternal life without perfection, and what iz perfection? What happens to good people who have not accepted Jesus, Yeshua, as their Savior, Lord, and Master? Do animals have souls? Hopefully those who read Shangri-La 730’s Last Flight will come away with an uplifting feeling that there iz a perfect plan working its way out in its perfection and a hopeful belief that they can be reunited with all they love in GOD.
Author : Christopher Schaberg
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782799621
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Airplane Reading written by Christopher Schaberg and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers. At turns irreverent, philosophical, and earnest, each essay is a veritable journey in and of itself. And together, they illuminate the at once strange and ordinary world of flight. Contributors: Lisa Kay Adam • Sarah Allison • Jane Armstrong • Thomas Beller • Ian Bogost • Alicia Catt • Laura Cayouette • Kim Chinquee • Lucy Corin • Douglas R. Dechow • Nicoletta-Laura Dobrescu • Tony D’Souza • Jeani Elbaum • Pia Z. Ehrhardt • Roxane Gay • Thomas Gibbs • Aaron Gilbreath • Anne Gisleson • Anya Groner • Julian Hanna • Rebecca Renee Hess • Susan Hodara • Pam Houston • Harold Jaffe • Chelsey Johnson • Nina Katchadourian • Alethea Kehas • Greg Keeler • Alison Kinney • Anna Leahy • Allyson Goldin Loomis • Jason Harrington • Kevin Haworth • Randy Malamud • Dustin Michael • Ander Monson • Timothy Morton • Peter Olson • Christiana Z. Peppard • Amanda Pleva • Arthur Plotnik • Neal Pollack • Connie Porter • Stephen Rea • Hugo Reinert • Jack Saux • Roger Sedarat • Nicole Sheets • Stewart Sinclair • Hal Sirowitz • Jess Stoner • Anca L. Szilágyi • Priscila Uppal • Matthew Vollmer • Joanna Walsh • Tarn Wilson
Author : Genevieve de Heaulme
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513867
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Angel of Dien Bien Phu written by Genevieve de Heaulme and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geneviève de Galard was a flight nurse for the French Air Force who received the name of the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" during the French war in Indochina. She volunteered for French Indochina and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh. Galard was stationed in Hanoi and flew on casualty evacuation flights from Pleiku. After January 1954 she was on the flights that evacuated casualties from the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Her first patients were mainly soldiers who suffered from diseases but after mid-March most of them were battle casualties. Sometimes Red Cross planes had to land in the midst of Vietminh artillery barrages. On March 27, 1954, when a Red Cross C-47 with Galard aboard tried to land at night on the short runway of Dien Bien Phu, the landing overshot and the plane's left engine was seriously damaged. The mechanics could not repair the plane in the field, so the plane was stranded. At daylight Vietminh artillery destroyed the C-47 and damaged the runway beyond repair. Galard went to a field hospital under command of doctor Paul Grauwin and volunteered her services as a nurse. Although the men of the medical staff were initially apprehensive —she was the only woman in the base —they eventually made accommodations for her. They also arranged a semblance of uniform; camouflage overalls, trousers, basketball shoes, and a t-shirt. Galard did her best in very unsanitary conditions, comforting those about to die and trying to keep up morale in the face of the mounting casualties. Many of the men later complimented her efforts. On the 29th of April 1954 Genevièvee de Galard was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Légion d ́Honneur and the Croix de Guerre. It was presented to her by the commander of Dien Bien Phu, General de Castries. The following day, during the celebration of the French Foreign Legion's annual "Camerone", de Galard was made an honorary "Legionnaire de 1ère classe" alongside Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard, the commander of the 6th Colonial Parachute Battalion. French troops at Dien Bien Phu finally capitulated on May 7. However, the Vietminh allowed Galard and the medical staff continue to care for their wounded. Galard still refused any kind of cooperation. When some of the Vietminh begun to hoard medical supplies for their own use, she hid some of them under her stretcher bed. On May 24, Gènevieve de Galard was evacuated to French-held Hanoi, partially against her will. The American press gave her the name “Angel of Dien Bien Phu.” She was given a tickertape parade up Broadway, a standing ovation in Congress. On 29 July 1954 President Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. She currently lives in Paris with her husband.
Author : Vijaypat Singhania
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9389109841
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book An Incomplete Life written by Vijaypat Singhania and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I’m trying to accept that my life has changed.’ In February 2015, an unforeseen setback cost Vijaypat Singhania, the erstwhile Chairman Emeritus of Raymond Group, the work of his life and his cherished family home. One of India’s most legendary industrialists, today he is fighting a battle to recover all that he has lost. In his first and only autobiography, he traces his extraordinary life from an anguished childhood to the many dynamic decades he spent at Raymond and the tumultuous years after. Born into the famed Singhania family, Vijaypat was always expected to take up the storied family business. But not one to be deterred from pursuing his own passions, he also nurtured his love for adventure in the skies and broke two world records as an aviator, served a brief stint as a professor and even became the sheriff of Mumbai for a time. All the while, under his stewardship, the Raymond Group diversified into new segments, with Raymond soon being recognized as one of India’s most trusted apparel brands. And then a singular misstep set in motion a grave misfortune ... Intimate, candid and deeply moving, An Incomplete Life is in fact a rare glimpse into a life lived to the fullest but marked by the painful sting of regret and heartbreaks.
Author : Woody McClendon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book When the Angel Calls written by Woody McClendon and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author flew medevac missions for over ten years over the decades of his career, from which he brings a historical perspective on how it evolved. He takes the reader down the path of trauma patient care from the early days of hospital-based programs that spared no cost for aircraft and crews to today to the point when private equity companies took over. They have mandated cheaper, smaller helicopters that were never meant to fly in the harsh conditions of rough terrain and total darkness demanded by many trauma patient missions.Painting this trend against the deaths of hundreds of medevac crew members is the chilling story told in When the Angel calls.Equally important is the story of those heroic medevac crew members in every city in the US who stand ready 24/7 to risk their lives saving trauma victims. Were it not for them those victims likely would not survive. The media has never highlighted their story. When the Angel Calls highlights these heroes so that more Americans learn about them, the risks they take for their patients, and the miracles they achieve every day.
