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Un pilote doit parfois compter sur la chance... Les 14 souvenirs retracés dans ce livre le prouvent à la perfection!
J'aurais pu raconter les vols o j'ai été brillant, génial ou même simplement héroïque. J'ai préféré relater des vols o la chance a pallié mes défaillances. Michel Vanvaerenbergh, ancien instructeur sur Boeing 737, raconte quelques-uns de ses souvenirs de plus de 13000 heures de vol.
Quatorze vols, de Bruxelles à Chicago...
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Panique sur la piste d'atterrissage !
Un grain de sable, ou plutt de neige, dans un vol soigneusement préparé amène un commandant à se faire dépasser par son avion... jusqu'à se retrouver aligné sur la mauvaise piste…
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière de pilote.
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En 1948, Michel Vanvaerenbergh poursuit...
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De la parfaite maîtrise du pilote d'avion pour éviter la catastrophe
Comment on peut frler l'accident, sans commettre d'imprudence, simplement en se concentrant à l'excès sur un point précis au lieu de conserver une vue d'ensemble.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière de pilote
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En 1948, Michel Vanvaerenbergh...
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Mission délicate pour deux apprentis pilotes d'avion...
O deux jeunes élèves pilotes don’t l'enthousiasme n'a d'égal que leur naïveté se retrouvent en pleine tempête de neige à traverser l'approche de Londres en panne totale de radio.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière de pilote.
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En 1948, Michel Vanvaerenbergh...
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Cohabitation en plein en vol entre un pilote chevronné et un apprenti
Après le remplacement de ses ailes, un Boeing 737 doit subir un vol d'essai. Dans cette histoire, l'équipage est "mixte". Ce sont deux cultures qui cohabitent : d'une part, un pilote habitué aux vols d'essais, de l'autre, des pilotes sans la moindre expérience de ces vols qui "collent" sans réfléchir à la procédure. Pour ne rien arranger, la météo est exécrable et alors...
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Sale temps pour un pilote d'avion
O l'on découvre que lorsque la météo est mauvaise et qu'un des pilotes n'est plus en mesure d'assurer son rle, la sécurité de l'avion ne tient qu'à un cheveu.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière de pilote.
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En 1948, Michel Vanvaerenbergh poursuit des études d'ingénieur...
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Quand les conditions météorologiques peuvent mener un vol à la catastrophe
O l'auteur, jeune commandant trop confiant en ses capacités, se voit contraint de recommencer une approche pour avoir oublié que la météo n'est pas une science exacte.
Michel Vanvaerenbergh nous invite à embarquer dans ce recueil de nouvelles autobiographiques, glissant quelques anecdotes personnelles de sa carrière de pilote.
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En 1948, Michel...
28) The dark frigate
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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Within this classic volume are the tales, tribulations, and ultimate triumphs behind some of the most spectacular and break-taking aerodynamic feats of early twentieth century aviation. Recounted firsthand from the annals of history, Famous First Flights will lift readers directly from the pages and into the action. Join the exhilarated crowd as they watch French flying ace Louis Bleriot make the first air journey over water in 1909. Be on...
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The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a work of travel literature by American writer Jack London. In 1906, after achieving early success as an author of novels and short stories, London began dreaming of the adventures of his youth. Inspired, he spent a fortune to build a 45-foot yacht complete with two sails and a 70-horsepower engine, powerful enough to carry him across the Pacific. Envisioning a seven-year journey, London and his wife Charmian set...
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The first-ever firsthand chronicle of Dr. Gregory W. Frazier's never-ending motorcycle ride.
A little over 40 years ago, a man named Gregory W. Frazier got on his motorcycle, went for a ride, and never returned. He's still out there, circumnavigating the globe: exploring the jungles of Asia in the winter, trout fishing in Alaska in the summer, and covering all points in between during the rest of the year. He's been shot at by rebels, jailed by...
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Inspired and challenged by his quests of "getting there," Bassam Tarazi and two friends signed on for the infamous Mongol Rally, a nearly 10,000-mile road trip from London to Mongolia through terrain that would make a mountain goat's knees buckle, in a vehicle that was little more than a go-kart. Borders, Bandits, and Baby Wipes is Tarazi's incredible tale of what comes with life on the go and off the map. It's a dive into cultures and cop cars, big...
33) The Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter Pilot, Pioneer Aviator, Vero: The Life of Sir Gordon Taylor MC, GC
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Patrick Gordon "Bill" Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during World War I, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford Smith; they went on to form an incredible flying partnership, setting records around the globe. It was on a flight across the Tasman in Smithy's famous Southern...
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Citizen of Two Worlds, first published in 1960, is the autobiography of Mohammad Ata-Ullah (1905-1977), Pakistani doctor, mountaineer, and philosopher. Born into a Muslim family, Ata-Ullah is an example of a worldy human being who treated Christians and Hindus with respect and as brothers. After studying medicine in Lahore and London and becoming a doctor, Ata-Ullah served as an officer in the British India Army and traveled widely, working in central...
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Join Tristan Jones as he tells tales of the humorous and fascinating adventures that his Saga of a Wayward Sailor began. Discover more anecdotes and unexpected adventures aboard a converted lifeboat ketch cruising the coasts of the Balearic region with Tristan, his one-eyed, three-legged dog, Nelson and the prim Bishop's sister, Sissie St. John. It's a prolific prose journey of surprising arrivals, machine gun-thwarting and ship-saving escapades of...
36) Wanderer
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At seventeen, Sterling Hayden ran away to sea. By twenty-two, he was the captain of his own brigantine. Discovered by Hollywood, he acted in more than forty motion pictures including THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. STRANGELOVE. He has had three wives, including the famous film star, Madeleine Carroll. During the war, he served with the O.S.S. and fought with the partisans in Yugoslavia. After the war, he joined the Communist Party and later recanted, naming...
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Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography. The author's role in Sea Hunt made him keenly aware of the revolution developing in the fields of salvage diving, treasure hunting, search and rescue, science, gold mining, and other virgin areas open to skin divers with imagination and enterprise. He described...
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Not only was A. E. Filby, a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "the World's most traveled motorist", Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
Horizon Fever is an honest, colorful, often shocking account;...
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A Shy Girl Breaks the Rules...
Refusing to follow the traditional career path for girls, Lisa Turner sets out to fulfill a promise she makes to her dying mother, disrupting the status quo every step of the way. When Lisa decides to build an airplane in the garage at the age of 45, her family thinks she has gone too far...
Everyone has a story. Everyone has a book in them. Stories are what make us wonderfully human. In the telling, we remind others...
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During the Golden Age of Aviation of the 1920s and 1930s, two great pilots stood above the rest: one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy Wiley Post, shy and awkward on the ground but a daredevil in the sky, and Jimmie Mattern, a handsome, charismatic Hollywood stunt pilot from Texas. The whole world followed their exploits through screaming newspaper headlines as they flew in planes made of little more than wood, canvas, and bailing wire, competing to be the first...
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