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Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots...

Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots...

"The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - will no longer have a decisive influence on the outcome of World War II, no matter how long it takes to beat Hitler." It is more than two years since I first heard these words. The man who spoke them...

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the aeroplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to take to the air had given way to jet-powered aircraft, a rate of technological...

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On January 26, 1949, Garuda Indonesia was officially established as Indonesia's government-owned flag carrier. To begin with, the airline focused on domestic and regional travel. However, in 1962, the Dutch-occupied island of Dutch New Guinea was added...

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Take an action-packed flight through the history of aircraft and discover the intrepid pioneers who made a dream realityUncover the engineering behind more than 800 aircraft models, from military jets to commercial planes. This visual history book...

A detailed study of United States Air Force, Army, Army Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrew survival equipment. Items covered are: survival vests, leggings, and chaps, life preservers, survival (ejection) seat and back pad kits, personal survival...

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The poor boy raised on a bankrupt farm along the western shore of the Mississippi would become the owner of the Fortune 500 aerospace empire, Gulfstream Aerospace. It was a convoluted journey for this visionary tycoon of modern aviation, and the...

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Since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, questions that had been at the heart of the ongoing debate about the industry for eighty years gained a new intensity: Is there enough competition among airlines to ensure that passengers do...

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The Rarefied Air of the Modern examines technology, modern identity, and history-making in Peru by telling the story of the surprising success of Peruvian pilots in European aviation competitions in 1910, and how their achievements generated great...

A remarkable story filled with dreamers, inventors, scoundrels and pioneering pilots, ""First to Fly"" recounts North Carolina's significant role in the early history of aviation. Beginning well before the Wright brothers' first...

Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615513652Author Charles D HamlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint HIS Publishing GroupPublisher HIS Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 227g

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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first nonstop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment,...

As air travel entered its exhilarating golden age, a growing number of Britons were taking to the skies - and what better publisher to help them plan their trips than Bradshaw, already famous for its comprehensive railway handbooks? Published in 1934,...

This title contains 100 years of airborne innovation and adventure for aviation fans - in a new compact edition. From the Wright brothers' first powered flight, to Concorde's final voyage and the tragic crash of the Columbia, take a sky-high journey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908973337Author Ian GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd