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Society's premier passenger jet. An era celebrated by the wealthy. Discover how one woman soared among luxury and escaped death.
In the early 1950s, Elaine Baker dreamed of an adventurous life traveling the world. As a stewardess for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), she met movie stars, fell in love with a captain, and visited extravagant destinations across the globe. And when her airline sent her to the USA to publicize commercial air...
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A veteran RAF fighter pilot reflects on his service in the sky during the Cold War, the Gulf War, and more in this exciting memoir.
Rick Peacock-Edwards has led different lives at different times, but through it all, he has consistently enjoyed himself. One of three sons of outstanding South African Battle of Britain pilot F/O S R "Teddy" Peacock-Edwards, Rick has a compassionate regard for a generation of wartime aircrew: "As the proud son of one...
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Reflections of a Teenage Barnstormer is the story of a 1933 two-month barnstorming tour of the Ohio River Valley of southern Indiana when the author was 16 years old. It is told in a first person, present tense in the manner he would have told it at the time it occurred.
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February 12, 2009, was an ordinary evening at home for the Wielinski family. Karen said good night to her husband Doug as he left their family room. Their daughter was reading in an upstairs room. Minutes later their world and their home collapsed into flaming wreckage around them. The crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, New York resulted in the loss of everyone aboard the plane and one on the ground." Karen and her daughter miraculously...
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A magical, airborne story of father and son. As compelling and affecting as William Lishman's Fly Away Home. A perfect gift for Father's Day. In the sanctum of a tiny single-seat biplane, a DSA-1 Smith Miniplane, Antonio Rotondo discovered the miracle of flight. A farmer's son from San Giacomo, Antonio took his first flight over Nairobi, Kenya, in 1970 at the age of 24. By 1976, he had become a commercial pilot. Then, in the early 1980s, he purchased...
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Only The Makers Name is the poignant and reflective memoir of acclaimed Flying Instructor Ray Blyth.
Spanning the years of his childhood growing up in a small terraced house on the outskirts of King?s Lynn in the county of Norfolk surviving the Kings Lynn Blitz as well as many childhood adventures, he writes vividly of his early life underscored by his undying ambition to fly.
Inspired by an early Fun Flight on the beach at Hunstanton with his father,...
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The crew manager droned on ... 'You are now ready to become a crew member in an enviable and very unique job that not only will take you to places you could only dream of, but you will see funny, sad, surprising, unbelievable, incredible, stupid and fascinating things of life in your travels.'
Brian Leary's amusing, touching and sometimes shocking tales show just how prescient the crew manager was.
"This truly was an emergency. If we did not get...
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Brought up in the Lake District, a keen interest in anything involving aviation brought about a career of almost 45 years starting with light aircraft and then on to the airline industry becoming a training Captain with various airlines including Virgin Atlantic on the Boeing 747. It all started with a piece of furniture inherited from his grandfather.
Following retirement, a further investigation into his family history was started by a letter found...
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Civil aviation has changed out of all recognition over the period during which the author was involved. In many ways it is now far safer than it used to be. In the early sixties, majority of flights were conducted in piston engine aircrafts and many were tail draggers i.e. you would have entered at the back of the aircraft and then struggled uphill towards your own seat. Turbine power soon took over and planes not only became faster but could climb...
11) Shatter The Sky
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Merryl Tengesdal, has become one of the most interesting and compelling maverick women in aviation.
In this inspirational memoir, retired Colonel Merryl Tengesdal shares her Life Lessons on everything from her career in the military, being the first and only black woman to pilot the U2 aircraft, to marriage and motherhood - and everything in between.
This book is a deep reflection on life in the military,...
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"That wasn't a close call, that was a miracle!"
These are the adventures of retired pilot Glen Goobie, who flew countless missions in Newfoundland and Labrador and across Canada and the United States. For more than forty years, he flew with compassion and courage, sometimes performing mercy missions in the face of danger.
In 1960, when Glen was fifteen, his father's untimely passing precipitated an uncertain future for him. His father was the breadwinner...
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Tales of an unremarkable engineer and the characters he met on the way at the Royal Radar Establishment Malvern and Pershore, the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough and Bedford, the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment Boscombe Down, and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.
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Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully...
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A retired RAF air marshal looks back on his career and the career of his World War II pilot father in this military memoir.
As this fascinating memoir unfolds, moving backwards and forwards through time, two parallel stories emerge: one of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career comes to a premature end when he's shot down and loses an eye, the other of his progeny, a second-generation fighter pilot, who eventually reaches the rank of...
16) Reappear
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From perfect landings to spiral dives and finding a way out.
Tess Hamilton's story continues, weaving in and out of time as her life unfolds from the 1970s to the year 2012.
Thoughts of Leaving concluded with Tess packing her 1958 Karmann Ghia Volkswagen and leaving behind the cold concrete sidewalks of the San Francisco Bay Area as she headed for California's breathtaking Golden West.
With the realism of dead-end avenues fading in her rearview mirror,...
17) Crossing
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Bob Hendrickson has written an exciting, insightful, and moving book that describes his extraordinary life journey. A highly successful Air Force pilot, airline Captain, and Federal Aviation Administration Lead Accident Investigator, he time and again overcame powerful personal setbacks that would have disheartened the rest of us. Yet, the core of his exciting book is an uplifting story grounded in optimism. It is a story of hope.
A Texas child growing...
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Although this is a book about life as a flight attendant with the world's most iconic and glamorous airline, Pan American World Airways, it is not just a chronology of airborne events. Instead, it begins with Betty Riegel's description of leaving her home in the middle of the night, clutching her teddy and running with her Mother to an air raid shelter during war torn London. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled...
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Scott Kartvedt watched Top Gun and then went on to be a Navy pilot. He was selected to be a Blue Angel. He served during five combat deployments flying 91 combat missions and accumulated over 6,300 flight hours, 658 carrier arrested landings on eleven aircraft carriers.He went on to command VFA-83, an award-winning FA/18 Squadron and served as the Navy's first commanding officer of the only F-35C Stealth Strike Fighter Squadron in the US before retiring...
20) I Flew For MMA
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Reg Adkins was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1926, went to Inglewood State School and after three years at Guildford Grammar School completed his education at the age of 16. From the time he was 11 years old his ambition was to be a pilot. Joining the RAAF in October 1944 he was too late for pilot training but spent four and a half years as an Armourer in the service he loved. Learning to fly at the Royal Aero Club of W.A. at Maylands Aerodrome...
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