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“richard e eller”

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  • Piedmont Airlines

    A Complete History, 1948-1989

    by Richard E. Eller ...
    Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines of its time. This exhaustive history follows the airline from its humble beginnings at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to its 1989 absorption into USAir after a buyout at the highest price ever commanded by a regional airline.Drawing upon corporate documents, local news ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant

    True Tales and Gossip from the Galley

    by Owen Beddall, Libby Harkness ...
    Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley!Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead – flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the pool and night-time tabletop dancing with Bollywood stars. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Fire Flight

    A Novel

    by John J. Nance ...
    From New York Times bestselling author and "master of the airborne thriller" John J. Nance comes Fire Flight, a ripped-from-the-headlines adventure about the extraordinary pilots who risk their lives flying substandard airplanes in a little-known and lopsided war against our nation's wildfires.Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell thought his fire bombing days were well behind him. But when Jerry Stein, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Why Planes Crash

    An Accident Investigator?s Fight for Safe Skies

    by David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek ...
    Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented.He’s worked as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Brace for Impact

    Air Crashes and Aviation Safety

    by Peter Pigott ...
    Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel.The history of air accidents is a harrowing one. Yet today flying is the safest mode of transportation, thanks in no small part to the work of crash detectives. Whenever a plane falls from the sky, the investigators pick through the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Short Stories for Short Flights

    by Maurice P. Sullivan ...
    The stories in this collection are very different from each other, the subject matter ranging from serious to humerous. They all share a common theme, however. They are not about aviation, but the world of people who fly is the environment in which the tales occur. The stories will be of interest to anyone, but people who dream of flying are the most likely to really enjoy them. Some of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The New Science of the Ufo

    by Kenneth W. Behrendt ...
    The New Science of the UFO now completes author and researcher Kenneth W. Behrendt’s groundbreaking trilogy on the subject of UFOs. It contains a complete scan of all 24 issues of a previously out of print, privately published, typescript UFO research journal titled “Annals of Ufological Research Advances” or “AURA”, for short, which was the basis for his first two volumes, Secrets of UFO ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Plane Talk: Cessna Export Tales

    by Eyvinn H. Schoenberg, Eyvinn Hansen Schoenberg ...
    Plane Talk: Cessna Export Tales is the story of the team of close friends in the Export Department of the Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita Kansas as seen through the eyes of Eyvinn H. Schoenberg as he relates through forty tales and five epilogue histories, experiences of his own and those of his friends in exporting Cessnas worldwide.He describes his strict flight training in a Piper Cub, and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Instrument Flying

    by David Hoy ...
    This book is designed to supplement the instruction a student receives during his or her course. The Instrument Rating is a test of not only the student's ability to fly accurately on Instruments, the foundation, but also the ability to cope under a number of pressures. Instrument Flying is intended to help prepare the student to pass what is regarded as probably the most demanding flight tests in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Spitfire

    A Photographic Biography

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world. During the Second World War, the Spitfire became the icon of Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in those dark days of 1940 when Britain stood alone. Today it remains a symbol of great national pride - and the fascination in R. J. Mitchell's little fighter shows no sign of diminishing. ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • To Scale the Skies

    The Story of Group Captain J.C. 'Johnny' Wells DFC and BAR

    by Peter Cornwell ...
    With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. From idyllic pre-war training, he would fly bombers against rebels over Iraq, combat Fw190s over England in the newly introduced and equally dangerous Typhoon; he would undertake hazardous low-level anti-shipping strikes in the English Channel, as well as ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • D-Day +60 Years

    A Small Piece of History

    by Jerome J. McLaughlin ...
    This unique account of D-Day history provides an unusual look into the US Army’s preparation of a new type of World War II warfare, that of airborne operations. The book describes, using personal interviews with the veterans involved, how young men who had never even flown in an airplane before the war were trained to fly into combat, or to parachute into the dark of night.The narrative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD