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1) Flying
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The sharp wit and experienced judgment of Flying’s experts cover all the challenges and rewards that aviation offers to all flying enthusiasts. From industry news updates, regulations, trends, air shows and events to carefully researched reports on all categories of airplanes, helicopters, avionics, products, technology, accessories and equipment to pilot technique, flight training, safety, weather, operations and maintenance.
5) Flying
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"Every other weekend, Stella buys a ticket on the next flight out of town and leaves her life behind. Home is a place with too many memories, and departure is the sweetest possible distraction. As soon as she arrives at her destination, Stella visits the airport bar. She orders a drink and waits for the right guy to come along. A bored businessman, a backpacker, a baggage handler just off shift. If he's into a hot, no-strings hookup, he's perfect....
7) Flying
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Mana has always lived a normal life, albeit with an overprotective mother, until the day she comes home to find the house trashed and an alien in the garage. It turns out her mother is an alien hunter who has absconded with a piece of technology that everyone--human and alien--wants to get their hands on. When her mother's partner shows up and orders Mana to come with him, it may be up to Mana to save her mother--and the world.
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Canadian author Hugh Hood's first collection of short stories. It all started toward the end of the 1930s, when the young Hugh Hood serviced a flourishing Saturday Evening Post delivery route with more than fifty weekly customers. That was where the author-to-be first encountered the short story, in the fiction of the famous magazine writers Damon Runyon, Guy Gilpatric, Arthur Train, and the master of them all, P.G. Wodehouse. Hood would go on to...
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Due to popular demand, the master storyteller, Paul John Hausleben releases one of his most popular and famous short stories from his extensive short story collections in an exclusive book, single version.
Flying is the highly acclaimed short story from the author's popular anthology, The Summer Collection. This exclusive version of Flying contains not only glorious cover artwork, it also contains special notes, from the author explaining some of...
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Join Melanin Origins as we tell the fun-filled account of the Tuskegee Airmen and the man who pioneered the skies to make their existence possible, Chief Charles Anderson. Chief Anderson was a forerunner; a flight instructor in the beginning days of the Tuskegee Institute. Author Larry Simmons Jr. penned this story of accomplishments in flight and in moral character with hopes to awaken the determined, persevering, and ambitious nature in every child...
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Night Stalkers Captain Tyra Walker flies deep into enemy territory. It seems that "flight" has become her whole life's story, whether in her Arkansas hometown or in a kick-ass helicopter.Delta operator Major Norm Lawrence stepped away from his past and only thinks about the next mission, until Tyra crosses his path.When Tyra's past meets Norm's present deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains-a land where military arms flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan-they'll...
13) The Flying Ace
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When a war hero returns to his former job as a railroad company detective, he must capture a gang of railroad thieves and recover
14) Flying Ace
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Errol the adventurous little mouse takes to the sky when he meets a young girl, Natasha, playing with a toy airplane. Later, when Errol is left alone, he decides to fly Natasha's toy plane and begins a magical journey that takes him back in time to one night in 1940. He meets up with Dan, a radio operator on a full-sized Hudson bomber, and gets to accompany the crew on their late night, top-secret flight across the Atlantic. When an enemy plane appears...
15) Flying Aces
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The ace in the air was once a celebrity figure, a glamorous warrior of the skies. But this was daunting and dangerous work in the midst of brutal and bloody wars. An action-packed narrative keeps the reader riveted to the tales of real-life awesome aces, and cuts through the glitz to get to the nitty-gritty of these fights and flights. Readers will learn about the top aces from around the world, all kinds of planes, the wars in which they flew, and...
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Dr. Walcyk combines a sense of adventure a message of perseverance and enjoyment of the beauty of nature in this book. An inspiration to write this book developed out of a wish to share encouragement to young people to strive to do something different in life and fulfill their dreams. She describes her adventures while working with the Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia. The book describes how she was able to live in the vast outback area...
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Born in England and raised in the bush of East Africa, Beryl Markham was an extraordinary child--and lived an extraordinary life. She learned how to train racehorses from her father and became the first woman to succeed in Kenya's competitive racing circuit. When an airplane came to Africa, Beryl learned to fly. After a few years of carrying mail and passengers, she decided to take on the Atlantic Ocean. As the first person to fly non-stop from England...
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Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more! Robin Higham served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was a...
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T.S.C. Cooke joined the RAF as war began in 1939, aged 18, and trained to be a bomber pilot. Rising to the rank of squadron leader and decorated three times, Cooke bombed Berlin on 7 October 1940 in a Whitley Mk V, nearly ditching in the North Sea. Throughout this tour he faced the usual dangers of wartime aircrew, his aircraft being hit by AA fire on several occasions, once almost having to order his aircrew to bail out but landed safely at the last...
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