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No Ordinary Pilot

Author : Suzanne Campbell-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472828267
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Pilot written by Suzanne Campbell-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling, previously unknown story of the wartime adventures of Bob Allen: pilot, aerial photographer and prisoner of war. After a lifetime in the RAF, Group Captain Bob Allen, finally allowed his children and grandchildren to see his official flying log. It contained the line: 'KILLED WHILST ON OPERATIONS'. He refused to answer any further questions, leaving instead a memoir of his life during World War II. Joining up aged 19, within six months he was in No.1 Squadron flying a Hurricane in a dog fight over the Channel. For almost two years he lived in West Africa, fighting Germany's Vichy French allies, as well as protecting the Southern Atlantic supply routes. Returning home at Christmas 1942, he retrained as a fighter-bomber pilot flying Typhoons and was one of the first over the Normandy beaches on D-Day. On 25 July 1944 Bob was shot down, spending the rest of the war in a POW camp where he was held in solitary confinement, interrogated by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the infamous Stalag Luft 3 and suffered the winter march of 1945 before being liberated by the Russians. Fleshing out Bob's careful third-person memoir with detailed research, his daughter Suzanne Campbell Jones tells the gripping story of a more or less ordinary man, who came home with extraordinary memories which he kept to himself for more than 50 years.

No Ordinary Man

Author : Lois Winslow-Spragge
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0920474616
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Man written by Lois Winslow-Spragge and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer Dawson, famed geologist, includes the surveying of the Yukon and being head of the Geological Survey of Canada among his incredible legacies.

Backcountry Pilot

Author : Thomas Bowen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547165
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Backcountry Pilot written by Thomas Bowen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people get together around southern Arizona, there's a good chance that somebody will say, "That reminds me of the time I flew with Ike Russell. . . . " A backcountry pilot famous for his jaunts into the wildest, most remote regions of the borderlands, Alexander "Ike" Russell has become something of a legend since his death in 1980, and the stories surrounding his flights never fail to amaze. This book combines biography and oral history by offering a wide range of anecdotes and remembrances about Ike by friends and family. Many describe the great adventures and gut-wrenching close calls that have become enshrined in local folklore as classic "Ike Russell stories," in all their hair-raising and hilarious splendor. Russell was an easterner who moved to Arizona for his health and got his pilot's license in 1948—despite suffering from a respiratory disorder that would have kept other men firmly anchored to the ground. Over the years he flew scientists and other scholars to remote field locations in Mexico's Gulf of California and Sierra Madre Occidental that otherwise might not have been investigated. He often landed on short and dangerous airstrips and never seemed to mind running out of gas, getting caught without provisions, or attempting night landings in unlighted terrain. He took along a teapot wherever he went—and wherever he stopped, his first priority was to brew a quick cup. Backcountry Pilot is the story of a larger-than-life adventurer, with those who knew Ike sharing tales tall and true about his famous exploits, brushes with fate, and sometimes narrow escapes from the jaws of disaster. It includes reminiscences by such scientists and friends as botanist Richard Felger, whom Ike frequently flew down to Seriland; ethnohistorian Bernard Fontana, whom Ike took to Tarahumara country; and paleoecologist Paul Martin, who talked Ike into a nine-month trip through Africa over totally unfamiliar terrain. A concluding chapter by Thomas Bowen offers a brief biographical sketch of Russell. Ike Russell was a central figure for a generation of people who studied the southwestern desert and who helped others see it as a biological treasure rather than a wasteland. More than a highly skilled bush pilot, he was an extraordinary human being who touched the lives of everyone he met. For those who never got the chance, Backcountry Pilot secures Ike Russell's legacy in the desert skies.

No Ordinary Joes

Author : Larry Colton
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307717240
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Joes written by Larry Colton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese. No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier’s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck Vervalin of Dundee, New York; Tim McCoy of Dallas, Texas; and Gordy Cox of Yakima, Washington. All were enlistees from families that struggled through the Great Depression. The lure of service and duty to country were not their primary motivations—they were more compelled by the promise of a job that provided “three hots and a cot” and a steady paycheck. On the day they were captured, all four were still teenagers. Together, the men faced unimaginable brutality at the hands of their captors in a prisoner of war camp. With no training in how to respond in the face of relentless interrogations and with less than a cup of rice per day for sustenance, each man created his own strategy for survival. When the liberation finally came, all four anticipated a triumphant homecoming to waiting families, loved ones, and wives, but instead were forced to find a new kind of strength as they struggled to resume their lives in a world that had given them up for dead, and with the aftershocks of an experience that haunted and colored the rest of their days. Author Larry Colton brings the lives of these four “ordinary” heroes into brilliant focus. Theirs is a story of tragedy and courage, romance and war, loss and endurance, failure and redemption. With a scope both panoramic and disarmingly intimate, No Ordinary Joes is a powerful look at the atrocities of war, the reality of its aftermath, and the restorative power of love.

The Greatest Truth of All: You Are Alive!

Author : Prem Rawat
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481028875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Truth of All: You Are Alive! written by Prem Rawat and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prem Rawat recommends living in the "moment called now", because that is where peace can be found. In this book, his words, taken from 21 of his talks from around the world, help the reader to understand that human beings are designed to enjoy life. He believes that anyone can know joy, no-one is excluded from that chance. He makes his case with a poetic edge, using his own particular brand of humour and inspiration.

Helicopter Pilot's Companion

Author : Helen Krasner
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 184797922X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Helicopter Pilot's Companion written by Helen Krasner and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Helicopter Pilot's Companion is essential reading for those who are considering training to be a helicopter pilot, those currently undertaking training and those who have recently gained their Private Pilot's Licence for helicopters. Written in a clear, no-nonsense style, it covers a whole range of subjects concerning rotary aviation including common myths about flying helicopters, choosing a flying school and an instructor, the basics of rotary aerodynamics, and all practical aspects of learning to fly helicopters. Issues are examined that are important when the new helicopter pilot has gained his, or her, licence and is able to fly alone, including flying with passengers, coping with challenging weather and dealing with emergencies. In addition, the author provides useful advice to those readers who are considering becoming professional helicopter pilots. Illustrated with 28 colour photographs.

Skyfaring

Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351828
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Skyfaring written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.

United States Coast Pilot

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Ordinary Disruption

Author : Richard Dobbs
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397622
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Disruption written by Richard Dobbs and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges. The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking all the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy: the rise of emerging markets, the accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition, an aging world population, and accelerating flows of trade, capital and people. Our intuitions formed during a uniquely benign period for the world economy -- often termed the Great Moderation. Asset prices were rising, cost of capital was falling, labour and resources were abundant, and generation after generation was growing up more prosperous than their parents. But the Great Moderation has gone. The cost of capital may rise. The price of everything from grain to steel may become more volatile. The world's labor force could shrink. Individuals, particularly those with low job skills, are at risk of growing up poorer than their parents. What sets No Ordinary Disruption apart is depth of analysis combined with lively writing informed by surprising, memorable insights that enable us to quickly grasp the disruptive forces at work. For evidence of the shift to emerging markets, consider the startling fact that, by 2025, a single regional city in China -- Tianjin -- will have a GDP equal to that of the Sweden, of that, in the decades ahead, half of the world's economic growth will come from 440 cities including Kumasi in Ghana or Santa Carina in Brazil that most executives today would be hard-pressed to locate on a map. What we are now seeing is no ordinary disruption but the new facts of business life -- facts that require executives and leaders at all levels to reset their operating assumptions and management intuition.

The Sewing Girl's Tale

Author : John Wood Sweet
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250761972
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Sewing Girl's Tale written by John Wood Sweet and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has not On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation’s top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable—but at a terrible cost to herself. Based on rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the sanctuaries of the city’s elite, the shadows of its brothels, and the despair of its debtors’ prison. The Sewing Girl's Tale shows that if our laws and our culture were changed by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be changed again. Includes photographs

First Light

Author : Geoffrey Wellum
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241984335
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book First Light written by Geoffrey Wellum and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF . . . Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.

UNITED STATES COAST PILOT ATLANTIC COAST

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book UNITED STATES COAST PILOT ATLANTIC COAST written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flight

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domestic Engineering

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2344 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pilots and What They Do

Author : Liesbet Slegers
Publisher : Av2 Fiction Readalong 2018
ISBN 13 : 9781489661968
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Pilots and What They Do written by Liesbet Slegers and published by Av2 Fiction Readalong 2018. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the responsibilities and tasks given to airline pilots.

Tails Up

Author : Edgar Charles Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Tails Up written by Edgar Charles Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cases ... for the Eighth Circuit. By ... S. F. Miller. Reported by J. M. Woolworth. 1863-69. Vol. 1

Author : United States. Courts of Justice. Circuit Courts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Cases ... for the Eighth Circuit. By ... S. F. Miller. Reported by J. M. Woolworth. 1863-69. Vol. 1 written by United States. Courts of Justice. Circuit Courts and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: