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  • A Pilot’S Story

    An Autobiography of a Pilot

    by Don Volz ...
    This is my storythe story of a pilot who flew airplanes for some thirty-seven years: ten years in the United States Air Force, primarily in jet fighters, and then twenty-seven years flying commercial jet airliners. I was inspired to write this story after reading the autobiography, a few years ago, of Gen. Chuck Yeagerhe being the world-renowned test pilot, World War II fighter ace, and first man ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Captains' Airline

    On Approach to Disaster

    by Captain Art Samson ...
    Naval Aviator Brad Morehouse finds himself relegated to the flight engineer seat of a commercial 727 following a tragic accident during the Blue Angel’s triumphant homecoming in 1983. From the lowest notch on the totem pole he watches the downward spiral of Omega Airlines as one crew blunder after another threatens to force the once proud captains’ airlines into extinction. Accidents were a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dangerous Lessons And Guardian Angels

    An Airline Pilot's Story

    by Capt. PJ Spivack ...
    DANGEROUS LESSONS AND GUARDIAN ANGELS is an action packed true adventure book that spans thirty-five years of airline flying. Stories about transporting guns to Biafra, flying cargo up and down the Berlin corridor during the cold war, and flying sensitive missions, deep into Russia.Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for exciting,sometimes funny,and ocassionally death defying true aviation stories. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

    by Robert Gandt ...
    Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flying the Airbus A380

    by Gib Vogel ...
    Since its first flight on 27 April 2005, the Airbus A380 has been the largest passenger airliner in the world. Instantly recognizable with its full-length upper deck, it represents the pinnacle of modern airliner design. ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Seconds To Disaster. Europe Edition

    by Ray Ronan ...
    As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five.But why?Seconds to Disaster will demonstrate that part of that bad luck is often aided by the airline industry's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aviation at the Edge

    42 Years of Comradeship, Tragedy and Adrenaline Fuelled Life in the Clouds

    by John Flexman ...
    Three thousand feet above the Zambian bush, the DHC2 Beaver had only ten minutes' fuel remaining. Night was drawing in; ground features were indiscernible. I could not raise anyone on the radio. Would this be the end? John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy of eight. At sixteen he joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, getting his 'wings' in 1961 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Emergency (2nd Edition)

    Crisis On The Flight Deck

    by Stanley Stewart ...
    Emergency is a collection of true stories about events where disaster seems imminent. Yet each situation is concluded without loss of life thanks to the skill of the pilots and their crews, whose bravery and resourcefulness have earned them well-deserved commendations. Written by a British Airways First Officer, Stanley Stewart, who has spoken at first hand with the pilots and crews involved in ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • The Rogue Aviator - In The Back Alleys of Aviation

    by Ace Abbott ...
    The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation is a memoir of an adventurous and fun-loving pilot who experienced a unique and tumultuous career. An additional theme of this book is an insider's view of the commercial aviation industry and the degradation of safety that results when concern for the company's bottom line trumps the concern for the safety of the aviation operation. The current ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flying by the Seat of My Pants

    Flight Attendant Adventures on a Wing and a Prayer

    by Marsha Marks ...
    Take a look at life from behind the beverage cart.“They asked me to be groomed, be kind, and show up on time; it was too much pressure.”“It was like being a waitress, only I was hurtling through space and wound up in Paris.”“I thought it would be funny to climb into the overhead bin. How did I know the President of the United States would be on the flight that day?”Where flight attendant Marsha ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Ice Pilots

    Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North

    by Michael Vlessides ...
    As seen on TV!The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From rookie pilots trying to earn their wings in sometimes hellish conditions to vintage planes that flew over ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles: More Adventures and Misadventures from the Big Empty

    More Adventures and Misadventures from the Big Empty

    by Mort D. Mason ...
    Readers of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason's true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pilot, adventurer, and raconteur was just beginning, and in this book he revisits his most memorable moments of flying by the seat of his pants through blizzards and white-outs, on assignments at times hazardous and sometimes simply whacky, always with a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD