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  • The Lafayette Escadrille

    A Photo History of the First American Fighter Squadron

    by Steven A. Ruffin ...
    "A fresh look at the 38 Americans in the Escadrille Américaine . . . a finely-researched, well-written and well-illustrated book. It is recommended highly" ( Over the Front ).The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I, arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work, the entire history of the... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flights of No Return

    Aviation History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality

    by Steven A. Ruffin ...
    Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happened to be the world's foremost aviator--lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Aviation's Most Wanted™

    by Steven A. Ruffin ...
    Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flightof just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviations Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings, and Other Aerial Oddities. With dozens of top-ten lists focusing on notable flights, memorable ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

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    Armstrong and Charlie

    by Steven B. Frank ...
    Narrated by Ruffin Prentiss, Christopher Gebauer, Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it. And when he does, he'll grow older than the brother he recently lost. Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign him up for Opportunity Busing to a white school in the Hollywood Hills, all he wants to know is "What time in the morning will my alarm clock have the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses

    by Paul Simpson ...
    Series Book 429 - Mammoth Books
    An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don’t, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a fast-unfolding tragedy.This extensive collection of compelling real-life accounts of air disasters and near-disasters provides a sobering, alternative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • RAF Tempsford

    Churchill's Most Secret Airfield

    by Bernard O'Connor ...
    Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon, planes from the 138 and 161 Squadrons would take off on top secret missions to the heart of the war-torn Continent. They had to fly low and without lights in ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • de Havilland Mosquito: The Original Multirole Combat Aircraft

    by Philip J. Birtles ...
    The de Havilland Mosquito was the fastest RAF aircraft when it entered service in September 1941 with a speed 20 mph faster than the Spitfire. Made from wood, a non-strategic material using non-strategic labour, the Mosquito was the original multi-role combat aircraft which excelled as an unarmed high speed bomber, night fighter and precision ground attack aircraft, as well as on other duties. ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Last Explorer

    Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar Exploration

    by Simon Nasht ...
    In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history-no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Short Stirling

    The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers

    by Pino Lombardi ...
    Short Stirling: The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers is dedicated to the RAF's first four-engine heavy bomber and is the culmination of an incredible 30 years' comprehensive research. Illustrated with largely unpublished wartime photographs, it describes the design, construction and factories where Stirlings were produced. The men and women who built them relate their stories and the aircrews give ... Read more

    $10.91 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Thunder Rolled

    An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam

    by Ed Rasimus ...
    Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost—the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia—and many pilots were killed, captured, and wounded because of the Air Force’s disastrous tactics. The descriptions of Rasimus’s one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Comm Check...

    The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

    by Michael Cabbage, William Harwood ...
    On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War

    by Rob Langham ...
    Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers of the First World War and the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest plane ever seen in Britain took flight for the first time a twin-engine monster with a 100- foot wingspan, designed to be a Bloody Paralyser to the Germans. Operating mainly at night, the Handley Page bombers ... Read more

    $6.81 USD