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Download or read book Stunt Fliers written by Michael Grater and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple instructions for creating paper models of colorful space-age vehicles that can do loops, spirals, spin and perform other flight maneuvers.
Book Synopsis Cut and Fold Space Stunt Fliers by : Michael Grater
Download or read book Cut and Fold Space Stunt Fliers written by Michael Grater and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen easy-to-assemble spaceships capable of performing loops, rolls, turns and other high-flying exploits. Diagrams, simple instructions help construct brightly colored Star Trainer, Star Searcher, Space Scout, and 13 other gravity-defying vehicles.
Book Synopsis The World's Wildest Super Stunts by : Iam Boyd
Download or read book The World's Wildest Super Stunts written by Iam Boyd and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take to the skies! Stunt pilots amaze people with their ability to do spectacular flying feats. They perform corkscrews, loop-the-loops, and other breathtaking tricks high in the sky or close to the ground.
Book Synopsis Fearless! Stunt People by : Jessica Cohn
Download or read book Fearless! Stunt People written by Jessica Cohn and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When stunt performers go to work, they make dangerous feats look fun and easy, but there is a lot of risk behind this profession. Explore what stunt people do to prepare and keep themselves safe for a truly unique profession. Readers will be introduced to a brief history of stunt performance as well as the latest tips and tricks, including stunt driving, professional fighting, and even digital effects such as computer-generated imagery and are encouraged to explore college majors and areas of study are recommended to become a stunt person. With thrilling language and stunning images in conjunction with informational text, a useful glossary, and an interview with a real-life stunt-man, readers are sure to be fascinated and stimulated from cover to cover!
Book Synopsis A Nation of Fliers by : Peter Fritzsche
Download or read book A Nation of Fliers written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Shows how the fascination of the German people with flight combined idealized notions of vitality and modernity with symbols of conquest over the natural and political worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis Air Service Medical by : United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics
Download or read book Air Service Medical written by United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Air service medical by : United States. War Dept. Division of Military Aeronautics
Download or read book Air service medical written by United States. War Dept. Division of Military Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manual of Medical Research Laboratory by : School of Aviation Medicine (Randolph Field, Tex.)
Download or read book Manual of Medical Research Laboratory written by School of Aviation Medicine (Randolph Field, Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manual of Medical Research Laboratory by : United States. School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Tex
Download or read book Manual of Medical Research Laboratory written by United States. School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Tex and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Wellman by : William Wellman, Jr.
Download or read book Wild Bill Wellman written by William Wellman, Jr. and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life—the first—of the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as “Wild Bill” (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty-two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close-up art, ranged from adventure and gangster pictures to comedies, aviation, romances, westerns, and searing social dramas. Among his iconic pictures: the pioneering World War I epic Wings (winner of the first Academy Award for best picture), Public Enemy (the toughest gangster picture of them all), Nothing Sacred, the original A Star Is Born, Beggars of Life, The Call of the Wild, The Ox-Bow Incident, Battleground, The High and the Mighty... David O. Selznick called him “one of the motion pictures’ greatest craftsmen.” Robert Redford described him as “feisty, independent, self-taught, and self-made. He stood his ground and fought his battles for artistic integrity, never wavering, always clear in his film sense.” Wellman directed Hollywood’s biggest stars for three decades, including Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, and Clint Eastwood. It was said he directed “like a general trying to break out of a beachhead.” He made pictures with such noted producers as Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson, Jesse Lasky, and David O. Selznick. Here is a revealing, boisterous portrait of the handsome, tough-talking, hard-drinking, uncompromising maverick (he called himself a “crazy bastard”)—juvenile delinquent; professional ice-hockey player as a kid; World War I flying ace at twenty-one in the Lafayette Flying Corps (the Lafayette Escadrille), crashing more than six planes (“We only had four instruments, none of which worked. And no parachutes . . . Greatest goddamn acrobatics you ever saw in your life”)—whose own life story was more adventurous and more unpredictable than anything in the movies. Wellman was a wing-walking stunt pilot in barnstorming air shows, recipient of the Croix de Guerre with two Gold Palm Leaves and five United States citations; a bad actor but good studio messenger at Goldwyn Pictures who worked his way up from assistant cutter; married to five women, among them Marjorie Crawford, aviatrix and polo player; silent picture star Helene Chadwick; and Dorothy Coonan, Busby Berkeley dancer, actress, and mother of his seven children. Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of Louis B. Mayer, called Wellman “a terror, a shoot-up-the-town fellow, trying to be a great big masculine I-don’t-know-what. David had a real weakness for him. I didn’t share it.” Yet she believed enough in Wellman’s vision and cowritten script about Hollywood to persuade her husband to produce A Star Is Born, which Wellman directed. After he took over directing Tarzan Escapes at MGM, Wellman went to Louis B. Mayer and asked to make another Tarzan picture on his own. “What are you talking about? It’s beneath your dignity,” said Mayer. “To hell with that,” said Wellman, “I haven’t got any dignity.” Now William Wellman, Jr., drawing on his father’s unpublished letters, diaries, and unfinished memoir, gives us the first full portrait of the man—boy, flyer, husband, father, director, artist. Here is a portrait of a profoundly American spirit and visionary, a man’s man who was able to put into cinematic storytelling the most subtle and fulsome of feeling, a man feared, respected, and loved.
Book Synopsis Women and the Machine by : Julie Wosk
Download or read book Women and the Machine written by Julie Wosk and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with—and understanding of—machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears. “Engaging and entertaining . . . Using illustrations, cartoons and photographs from the past three centuries, Wosk delineates shifts in social acceptance of women’s relationship to technology . . . her work is complex, comprehensive and highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Art historian Wosk analyzes the overt and covert messages in depictions of women and machines in an array of fiction and, more impressively, in some 150 visual images.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis Willie Suicide Jones by : William S. Jones
Download or read book Willie Suicide Jones written by William S. Jones and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted
Book Synopsis Flying Over the USA by : Martin W. Sandler
Download or read book Flying Over the USA written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the evolving role that airplanes have played in the history of the United States.
Book Synopsis Journal of the American Medical Association by : American Medical Association
Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amelia Earhart's Daughters by : Leslie Haynsworth
Download or read book Amelia Earhart's Daughters written by Leslie Haynsworth and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases--expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots flew every aircraft in the U.S. Army Air Force--including B-26s when men were afraid to--logging more than siz million miles in all kinds of weather. yet when World War II ended, their wartime heroism was left unheralded. In 1961, with the dawn of the space age, a handful of top female pilots took part in a new program termed "Women in Space." Subjected to the same rigorous tests as the Mercury astronauts, thirteen women--top-notch pilots--were admitted to the program. Once again women had reason to dream...that at least oneof them would be the first of their sex in space. The matter went as far as Congress, where dramatic hearings included testimony from astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. But their hopes were dashed. These skilled aviators had the "right stuff" at the wrong time, and again women were denied their place in history. This is their story, one of courage, ferocity, adn patriotism.
Download or read book The Thrill Makers written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Starring human flies, daredevil aviators, bridge jumpers, and lion tamers, The Thrill Makers is a great read, as evocative as it is theoretically savvy, and convincingly argued. Culling telling details from a host of long-overlooked sources, Jacob Smith’s account of sensational, high-risk public performance from the Victorian age to the 1930s unearths and illuminates the interwoven histories of public spectacle, masculinity, the motion picture industry, new forms of celebrity, and the expanding American metropolis.”—Greg Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. “The Thrill Makers is an historical tour-de-force that illuminates the origins of risk-taking performance in American entertainment, and shows how its practitioners were gradually marginalized as invisible stunt doubles during the rise of the motion picture industry. Smith’s analysis of the lion tamer, the human fly, and the airplane wing-walker—as well as the many others who thrilled audiences before and during the advent of cinema—inspires us to reconsider the nature of media spectacle, masculinity, performance, celebrity, and labor at the turn of the last century. Impeccably researched, this book is a captivating read that re-frames the emergence of cinema in the context of its relationship to other forms of modern entertainment.”—Barbara Klinger, author of Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home.
