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Author : Lauran Paine Jr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965760706
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Flying Life written by Lauran Paine Jr and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected stories of EAA "Sport Aviation" columnist Lauran Paine Jr. This is aviation from the heart.
Author : David Crotty
Publisher : Museum Victoria
ISBN 13 : 0980619033
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book A Flying Life written by David Crotty and published by Museum Victoria. This book was released on 2010 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia using only photographs, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. He was the first Australian to fly a powered Australian-made aeroplane in Australia. The full story of John Duigan and his flying career has now been published for the first time. An article about the flying career of John Duigan is featured here in The Age
Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351828
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
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.
Author : Bob Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743262309
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book North Star Over My Shoulder written by Bob Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck, the embodiment of commercial aviation in America, recounts his thrilling life in flight in this exhilarating volume, hailed as "absolutely brilliant" by the former director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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Author : Hanna Reitsch
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786259214
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Flying Is My Life [Illustrated Edition] written by Hanna Reitsch and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 200 maps, plans, and photos. Hanna Reitsch is unusual in being a feminine woman who was yet the equal of men in a dangerous male profession — test-piloting new military aircraft. Her love of flying from childhood on, along with her superior intelligence, determination, and ability to withstand tremendous stresses, gave her the edge that allowed her to rise to the top of the aviation world. Hanna Reitsch offered her gifts to the German nation in the same way that Adolf Hitler and many others did — with a complete giving of herself and her abilities, holding nothing back. Although she lived to 1979, she never renounced her participation with the National Socialist government or criticized Hitler, even under pressure to do so. Hanna’s life story is an amazing one that sounds almost unbelievable in its drama and acts of heroism. She never married or had children; instead she occupied herself with the two burning loves of her life — flying and the salvation of her beloved Fatherland in its time of need.
Author : Mike Downs
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635925517
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Flying Man written by Mike Downs and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the little-known history of Otto Lilienthal, a daring man whose more than 2,000 successful flights inspired the Wright Brothers and other aviation pioneers. In 1862, balloons were the only way to reach the sky. But 14-year-old Otto Lilienthal didn’t want to fly in balloons. He wanted to soar like a bird. Scientists, teachers, and news reporters everywhere said flying was impossible. Otto and his brother Gustav desperately wanted to prove them wrong, so they made their own wings and tried to take flight. The brothers quickly crashed, but this was just the beginning for Otto, who would spend the next 30 years of his life sketching, re-sketching, and building gliders. Over time, Otto’s flights got longer. His control got better. He learned the tricks and twists of the wind. His flights even began to draw crowds. By the time of his death at age 48, Otto had made more than 2,000 successful glider flights. He was the first person in history to spend this much time in the air, earning the title of the world’s first pilot and paving the way for future aviation pioneers.
Author : Linda Holmes
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0525619283
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Flying Solo written by Linda Holmes and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. “A testament to the truth that love comes in all shapes, sizes, and situations.”—Jodi Picoult ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, PopSugar Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie’s curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love letter to the never-married Dot that ends with the line “And anyway, if you’re ever desperate, there are always ducks, darling.” Laurie is told that the duck has no financial value. But after it disappears under suspicious circumstances, she feels compelled to figure out why anyone would steal a wooden duck—and why Dot kept it hidden away in the first place. Suddenly Laurie finds herself swept up in a righteous caper that has her negotiating with antiques dealers and con artists, going on after-hours dates at the local library, and reconnecting with her oldest friend and her first love. Desperate to uncover her great-aunt’s secrets, Laurie must reckon with her own past and her future—and ultimately embrace her own vision of flying solo. With a cast of unforgettable characters and a heroine you will root for from page one, Flying Solo is a wonderfully original story about growing up, coming home, and learning to make a life for yourself on your own terms.
Author : Lim Khoy Hing
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814484873
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Life In The Skies: Everything you want to know about flying written by Lim Khoy Hing and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Skies is a unique compendium of tips, advice, anecdotes and tales from the storied career of life-long pilot, Captain Lim Khoy Hing. Captain Lim provides insights into every aspect of air travel – informing passengers of all the hidden mysteries of airplane safety and regulations, enlightening those who wonder how someone trains and becomes an international airline pilot, and entertaining readers throughout with anecdotes, tales and jokes from his own personal experiences in the air. Complemented with more than 40 full-colour personal illustrations of the Captain, Life in the Skies will be a valuable and useful guide for air travellers and budding-pilots alike!
Author : Eileen Robertson Hamra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 194795119X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Time to Fly written by Eileen Robertson Hamra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality, as Eileen Robertson Hamra perceived it, instantaneously altered the moment authorities confirmed that the plane her husband was piloting had crashed, and he had not survived. Three days before Christmas 2011 and just two miles from her parents’ home, Eileen Roberston Hamra’s husband, Brian, died alone, flying his own airplane. Overnight, Eileen lost the man she loved, and her three young children lost their father. Brian’s parents lost their son, his younger sister lost her big brother, and hundreds of people working across the globe in the tech and solar energy industries lost their mentor, their leader, their guide. Al Gore sent his condolences. After holding bicoastal celebrations of Brian’s life, for weeks, months, a year, Eileen and her children wrapped themselves in his clothing, and cocooned. Each night, under the balmy black-blue skies of Southern California, they cried, hugged, and pressed forward in ways they knew Brian would have wanted them to. Through the rollercoaster ride of loss and mourning, they were buoyed by friends, teachers, strangers, angels, and of course, family. Despite the dark sense of having been gutted, in fact because of the shadowy pangs of emptiness she experienced, Eileen learned new ways in which to shine a light and make her way toward feeling whole again. She transformed longing and loneliness into wisdom and wonder. She became more patient, compassionate, balanced, joyful, and loving than she had ever thought possible. Time to Fly is the story of how one woman chose to view the tragedy of her husband’s death as an opportunity to strengthen the bond with her children, and to wake up to her life’s purpose. It is one woman’s high-flying and turbulent journey to taking full possession of her potential by breaking beyond what she thought she would, should, and could do. Eileen Robertson Hamra moved through grief toward healing via a tough and magical spiritual awakening. Making a series of conscious choices and paying attention to a string of “coincidences” and otherworldly signs, she eventually met another wonderful man, Mike. They fell in love, got married, and set a well-respected IVF clinic record by giving birth to a miracle child when Eileen was forty-six years old. Time to Fly is a memoir not only for the bereaved and those who support them, but for anyone who believes in the power of finding the silver lining in the darkest of situations and holding on to that sliver of light, in order to turn things around. We do not have complete control over our limited time on this remarkable planet, and so in the time we do have, we must hold one another, build softness alongside resilience, and write our own flight plan
Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442464895
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children’s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today’s world of traditional books, eBooks, and apps, it’s story that we truly celebrate—and this story, no matter how you tell it, begs to be read again and again.
Author : Charles Ritz
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709058526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (585 download)
Download or read book A Fly Fisher's Life written by Charles Ritz and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1996-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Charles Ritz reflects on rods, lines and other tackle as well as his famous method of fly-casting - High Speed, High Line - which is described in detail. The book is enriched with his reminiscences from the finest game-fishing waters of Europe and North America.
Author : Anthony H. G. Fokker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Flying Dutchman written by Anthony H. G. Fokker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1938 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Riding
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 : 1781554145
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s written by Richard Riding and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s consists of photographs that were taken by E. J. Riding, the author's father, who spent his working life in the aviation industry. He was apprenticed to A. V. Roe & Company and employed as an aircraft engineer up to the war. During the war, Riding became an AID inspector and was seconded to Fairey Aviation, London Aircraft Production and the de Havilland Aircraft Company, latterly signing out Halifax bombers and Mosquitoes as airworthy and ready for test flying. Sadly, Riding was killed in a flying accident in 1950. During his short life, he gained a lasting reputation as an engineer, professional photographer, draughtsman and aero modeller. Riding began taking photographs of aircraft in 1931, aged fifteen. Fortunately, he kept copious notes recording the locations and dates of when and where aircraft were photographed. More importantly, he noted aircraft colour schemes, details rarely recorded by the press at the time. The aircraft types photographed by Riding ranged from the Tiger Moth, RAF fighters, ultra-lights to airliners, the whole giving a good cross-section of flying in Britain up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The book's photographs are of excellent quality and do not all consist of sterile bog-standard side views. Many depict aircraft being stripped for maintenance and servicing, others show aircraft dumped or after having crashed. Although approached in a generally light-hearted manner, the book features in-depth and informative captions.
Author : Stefan A. Cavallo
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Flying Life written by Stefan A. Cavallo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flying Life is the life story of our father, Stefan Cavallo, a test pilot at Langley Field during World War II, who passed away peacefully on September 25, 2022, at 101. While attending the School of Aeronautical Engineering at New York University, he also took flying lessons at Teterboro Airfield in New Jersey through a government-sponsored program and graduated with a combination aeronautical engineering degree and pilot’s license in April 1942, just five months after Pearl Harbor. He was immediately picked up by NACA (a precursor of NASA) and became one of their civilian test pilots—one of only five men. He had a remarkable seventy-five-year career in aviation. As a NACA test pilot for six years, three of them during the war, he flew and tested every version of the P51 Mustang (the A, B, D, and H prototypes) as well as dozens of other aircraft—from rocket-powered planes to amphibians and helicopters. Late in the war, when P51s were escorting B47 bombers over Germany, we discovered that we were mysteriously losing too many of the fighter planes in thunderstorms over Europe: the P51s went down while the B47s came safely home. The NACA pilots were given the assignment of determining the cause of these failures: most of the pilots and engineers were convinced that the plane’s wings had sustained heavy damage and had even fallen off—but the planes went down over enemy territory so there was no way to know for sure. A test was designed to see if NACA could solve the mystery. Stefan Cavallo, my father, was assigned to fly a P51 deliberately into a thunderstorm—with the task of finding out what was causing the crash. And find out he did—losing his burning plane in the process and bailing out over rural Virginia. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the wings that were the problem; it was the engine, which caught fire almost immediately in the windstorm. After he left NACA, Stefan Cavallo continued test-flying for about five years with EDO, a seaplane manufacturing company, and then retired from commercial aviation. In June 2010, while flying his Cessna 210, his engine seized five miles off the Long Island coastline. He was able—at the age of eighty-nine—to make a dead-stick landing in between a heavily populated beach and a full parking lot, in a very small patch of sand. There were no injuries—to him or anyone else. He made that night’s six o’clock news. Our father loved to fly. His book is a love letter to aeronautics—and a great read!
Author : Edgar Wollstone
Publisher : AJS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Maya Angelou's Life In a Fly written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Angelou aka Marguerite Johnson was a civil activist, award winning author and a legendary poet. Her fame still shines on her memoir, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Angelou is considered to the voice of black community. Her words echoed the sufferings and roared for their suppressed silence. She was honored with numerous awards is still praised for her touching works and a voice which overcame her struggles life had thrown at her. Her works are the portrayal of her own personal experiences. She gave life to her works by her raw approach of writing. There was a longing for freedom and a penetrating voice for her own race. Her life was a series of overwhelming incidents that even suppressed her voice for a long period. The iconic lady who became a mother during her teenage has bestowed some life changing works the English Literature has witnessed. This book throws light on the inspiring life journey of this prolific writer and iconic personality…
Author : Lara Giulia
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3710881951
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book all the reasons to fly. Life is a Story - story.one written by Lara Giulia and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the reasons to fly covers the omnipresence of love, death, agony, anxiety, happiness and challenges the world one lives in poses. Ghosts from the past and new born experiences and perspectives mingle together, building an outlook on why we should want to learn how to fly. And we we should learn to fly as soon as possible. The sky is not the limit.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-05-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
