#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #1920s #women #aviation 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

A Novel

Crossing the Horizon

#hardcover #biography #johnglenn #ushistory #spaceexploration #politics #nasa #aviation

South Carolina

The Remarkable Life of John Glenn

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a

rocket and soared into space.



He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator--and returned to space at the age of seventy-seven. The Last American Hero is a stunning examination of the layers that formed the man: a hero of the Cold War, a two-time astronaut, a veteran senator, a devoted husband and father, and much more. At a time when an increasingly cynical world needs heroes, John Glenn's aura burns brightly in American memory.

The Last American Hero

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#hardcover #history #space #science #biography #memoir #astronaut #moon #nonfiction #aviation 

Michigan

The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon

Two of America's most respected astronauts recall the space program and portray the great bond uniting the original Mercury Seven.

Moon Shot

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#hardcover #flight #usmilitary #military #chuckyeager #aviation #history #fighterpilot

Connecticut

A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier-nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. 

Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation.

After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one's enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California's Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called "the demon."

Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the "barrier" had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed--until now.

Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankind's quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeager's former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow American--George Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific War--met the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1.

Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before.

Chasing the Demon

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#hardcover #aviation #lovestory #history #coreymead #scandal #crime #fiction #detective 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption... During the height of the roaring twenties, Jessie Miller longs for adventure. Fleeing a passionless marriage in the backwaters of Australia, twenty-three-year-old Jessie arrives in London and promptly falls in with the Bright Young Things, those gin-soaked boho-chic intellectuals draped in suits, flapper dresses, and pearls. At a party Jessie meets Captain William Lancaster, married himself and fresh from the Royal Air Force, with a scheme in his head to become as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster will do Lindy one better: fly from London to Melbourne, and in Jessie Miller he’s found the perfect co-pilot. Within months the two embark on a half-year journey across the globe, hopping from one colonial outpost to the next. But like world records, marriage vows can be broken, and upon their landing in Melbourne Jessie and William are not only international celebrities, but also deeply inlove. Yet the crash of 1929 catches up to even the fastest aviator, and the couple finds themselves in dire straits at their rented house on the outskirts of Miami – the bright glare of the limelight fading quickly.To make ends meet Jessie agrees to write a memoir, and picks the dashing Haden Clarke to be her ghostwriter. It’s not long before this toxic mix of bootleg booze and a handsome interloper leads to a shocking crime, a trial that rivets and scandalizes the world, and a reckless act of abandon to win back former glory. The Lost Pilots is an extraordinary true story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation’s leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.

The Lost Pilots

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Alaska

A Pilot's Guide

Congested Airspace

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Slight wear around the edges. Pages crisp and clean. Ships same or next day. SKU  31622011  #modeling #aviation 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

This is the second in the new Modelling Manual series which sets out to help the more experienced modeller to improve techniques and expand their modelling horizons. Working with models like the MIG27 Fulcrum, the A-10, and the WW1 Roland Walfisch the reader is shown how with patience and care these and other models can be superdetailed to a very high standard. Very detailed colour photographs and a concise but explanatory text show the modeller how to turn a basic kit model into a show-stopper.

Advanced Aviation Modelling

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Arkansas

FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

ANew York Times Bestseller


A dramatic, intimate narrative of how Ford Motor Company went from making automobiles to producing the airplanes that would mean the difference between winning and losing World War II.
 
In 1941, as Hitler's threat loomed ever larger, President Roosevelt realized he needed weaponry to fight the Nazis--most important, airplanes--and he needed them fast. So he turned to Detroit and the auto industry for help.

The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a "bomber an hour." Critics scoffed: Ford didn't make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father's resistance, Edsel charged ahead. Ford would apply assembly-line production to the American military's largest, fastest, most destructive bomber; they would build a plant vast in size and ambition on a plot of farmland and call it Willow Run; they would bring in tens of thousands of workers from across the country, transforming Detroit, almost overnight, from Motor City to the "great arsenal of democracy." And eventually they would help the Allies win the war.

Drawing on exhaustive research from the Ford Archives, the National Archives, and the FDR Library, A. J. Baime has crafted an enthralling, character-driven narrative of American innovation that has never been fully told, leaving readers with a vivid new portrait of America--and Detroit--during the war.

The Arsenal of Democracy

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#paperback #history #nonfiction #advancereadercopy #aviation #femalerolemodels #ameliaearhart

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Sky Girls

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#hardcover #nonfiction #aviation #history #memoir #firstedition

New Jersey

A Journey with a Pilot

A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.

Skyfaring

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #falling #aviation #thriller #suspense #mystery #thrilling 

Texas

Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die in the first novel by a former flight attendant.

Falling

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#hardcover #nonfiction #army #aviation #navy #airforce #marines #pcsing #conus #oconus 

North Carolina

A first-of-its-kind celebration of military life, 1001 THINGS TO LOVE ABOUT MILITARY LIFE chronicles some obvious and not-so-obvious traditions, advantages and experiences military members, veterans and their families share. Full of heart-warming vignettes, laugh-out-loud lists, stories and quotes from military members and family members, and photos that speak a thousand positive affirmations, this inspirational look at those who dedicate their lives to serving perfectly illustrates why it is a profession and lifestyle to love. You'll find practical truths most service members wouldn't want to live without and learn the unique outlooks, services and advantages military life provides. Military or civilian, you'll experience the community and personal growth that the military offers. Whether you have a friend or loved one in the military, you're a service member ready to head out on duty, a spouse gearing up to take charge of the household, a veteran in need of a few good laughs, or a new recruit looking for encouragement, this book provides inspiration and insight into the lives of today's dedicated and courageous military families.

1001 Things to Love about Military Life

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solid soft cover, very good condition. Clean and crisp pages. Tight binding. Slight edge wear. #paperback #biography #wrightbrothers #kittyhawk #childrens #kids #history #aviation 

California

Describes events at Kitty Hawk up to the Wright brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903.

The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

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Slight wear around the edges. Pages crisp and clean. Ships same or next day. SKU 21822003 #history #aviation #flight

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Offers the history and vital statistics of more than 5,000 air and space craft

Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation

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This book is signed by the author. #hardcover #nonfiction #humor #aviation #signed 

Ohio

Sky Jinks in the Jet Age

Wheels Up

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#fiction #adventurestories #vintage #aviation

The Crowded Sky

#hardcover #aviation #history #nonfiction #firstedition

War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight

From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II--and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict--China's Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight.
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At the center of the maelstrom is the book's courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation's flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying--sometimes literally--on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe.
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With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China's survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China's only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas--the infamous "Hump"--pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history.
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A hero's-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, China's Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.

China's Wings

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#hardcover #nonfiction #keithobrien #flygirls #aviation #ameliaearhart #femalepilots 

Pennsylvania

How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER



"Exhilarating." --New York Times Book Review



"Riveting." --People



"Keith O'Brien has brought these women--mostly long-hidden and forgotten--back into the light where they belong. And he's done it with grace, sensitivity and a cinematic eye for detail that makes Fly Girls both exhilarating and heartbreaking." --USA Today



The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s -- and won

 

Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky.



O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high-school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue-blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to race against the men -- and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.

 

Like Hidden Figures and Girls of Atomic City, Fly Girls celebrates a little-known slice of history in which tenacious, trail-blazing women braved all obstacles to achieve greatness.

Fly Girls

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#hardcover #reference #color #history #aviation #aircraft #militaryhistory #encyclopedia #randmcnally 

Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980

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New York

America in the Air War

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#paperback #aviation #planecrash #airplanes #investigation

The Probable Cause 

No dust jacket, no water damage, and from a smoke free home  #hardcover #history #aviation #flight #aviationhistory #womenshistory

Virginia

#paperback #aviation #reference #nonfiction 
Good, minor edge wear. 

A completely revised, third edition of this guide to modern aircraft. Since the first edition of this book was published in 1996, there have been major changes to the world's air forces and significant developments in the civil aviation business. As we enter into the 21st century a new generation of military aircraft is entering service, and mid-life upgrades are significantly changing both military and civil fleets. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide provides technical specifications from Jane's All the World's Aircraft (published since 1909). The new format also allows for additional aircraft and information to be featured.

Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide

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American Female Test Pilots, Flight Test Engineers, and Astronauts

The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Lucidly written, it has served as a valuable research tool, not only for students and scholars of Chinese history, but for scholars in other disciplines. By charting the careers of numerous Party officials, Donald W. Klein and Anne B. Clark provide insight into "notable patterns of career activity"--particularly, of the frequent, dramatic rise and fall from power. These are political biographies; the overwhelming majority deal with CCP, government, or military personalities. Approximately 200 of the entries are on members of the Party Central Committee. Each of the others documents a top leader in some field, from government ministers, Party officials in the provinces, provincial governors, diplomats, military and labor leaders, scientists, and science administrators to women and youth leaders, artists, and writers. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities. The biographies are well documented, and accompanied by 96 appendices which integrate many of the materials found in the text. For example, one appendix lists every ministry and minister since the People's Republic was established. The Biographic Dictionary also contains a glossary-name index, which lists 1,750 persons found in the text and appendices, along with the Chinese characters for their name. An annotated general bibliography lists the major sources and general references used throughout the study.

Laurie Notaro

Crossing the Horizon

Alice L. George

The Last American Hero

Alan Shepard; Deke Slayton; Neil Armstrong (Introduction by)

Moon Shot

Dan Hampton

Chasing the Demon

Corey Mead

The Lost Pilots

Kevin Garrison (Editor)

Congested Airspace

Jerry Scutts

Advanced Aviation Modelling

A. J. Baime

The Arsenal of Democracy

Gene Nora Jessen

Sky Girls

Mark Vanhoenacker

Skyfaring

T. J. Newman

Falling

Tara Crooks; Starlett Henderson; Kathie Hightower; Holly Scherer

1001 Things to Love about Military Life

Donald J. Sobol; Illustrated by Wayne Blickenstaff

The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

Michael John Haddrick Taylor, Bill Gunston

Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation

Captain Steve Taylor

Wheels Up

Hank Searls

The Crowded Sky

Gregory Crouch

China's Wings

Keith O'Brien

Fly Girls

Enzo Angelucci

Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980

Edward Jablonski; Time-Life Books Editors (Contribution by)

America in the Air War

Robert J. Serling

The Probable Cause

Keith O'Brien

Fly Girls

Gunter Endres & Mike Gething

Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide

Yvonne C. Pateman

Women Who Dared