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A Man on the Moon
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Andrew
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Chaikin
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What it took to put Neil Armstrong on the Moon
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Air Force Technical Order C-141-B-1
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U S Air Force
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Curious about what the POH for an Air Force cargo
plane looks like? Try this. (Contact me
if you want
the copy. It is not available in print.)
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Alaska's Sky Follies
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Joe
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Rychetknik
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The funny side of flying in the far north
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Chris
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Hadfield
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What if your dream is to be an astronaut, but you
live in a country that does not have a space
program?
And, after having the good fortune to live that dream,
how does that relate to life on earth?
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Another Great Day at Sea -
Life Aboard the USS George HW Bush
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Geoff
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Dyer
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I am a sucker for books about fast planes and aircraft carriers.
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Arsenal of Democracy - FDR,
Detroit,
and the epic quest to arm an America
at war
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A J
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Baime
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So just how did go from being a nation with no military
to one that turned out tons of ships,
planes and tanks every day?
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Atlantic Fever " Lindbergh, His
Competitors, and the Race to Cross the
Atlantic"
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Joe
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Jackson
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When Charles Lindberg decided to try to make his Atlantic
Ocean crossing, he had a lot of
company. Who were they?
And why did they fail?
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Chasing Icarus - the 17 days
in
1910 that changed
American aviation
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Gavin
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Mortimer
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Here is a short slice of time that we don't dwell on.
But were Americans excited about in
the fall of 1910?
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Clash of Wings
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Walter J.
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Boyne
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World War II in the Air, by the former director of the
Air & Space Smithsonian
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Da Nang Diary
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Tom
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Yarborough
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I used to listen to these guys on the radio when I was
flying over Viet Nam. This is what the
"Covey" guys
were doing down in the bushes in Viet Nam, Cambodia,
and Laos. - Chris
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Dead Men Flying
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Pat
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Brady
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The story of "Dustoff", the army helicopter unit that
brought the wounded back from the
Viet Nam battlefields.
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Dragonfly
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Bryan
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Burrough
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Aboard the MIR
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Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A collection of historical essays of the early days of flying
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Experiences of the War - The American
Airman in Europe
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Roger A.
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Freeman
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Stories from the crews of the 8th Air Force in England
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Fate is the Hunter
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Gann's first, and best, "autobiography" Flying in the 30's
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Father Goose
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Bill
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Lishman
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Flying with the geese in an ultralight
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Flight of Passage
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Rinker
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Buck
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True story of two teen-age boys who rebuild a J-3 Cub and
fly it across the country
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Flight of the Phoenix
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Elleston
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Trevor
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When you make a forced landing in the desert, you have
three choices - Walk 200 miles to the
nearest oasis, die,
or build a new airplane out of what is left
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Flying Carpet
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Richard
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Halliburton
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The 1930s. Adventurer, storyteller, Richard Halliburtan
decides to buy a Stearman and fly across
Europe and Asia.
He has never flown an airplane, but what an adventure
this could be.
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Forever Flying -
Fifty Years of High-
Flying Adventures
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Bob
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Hoover
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I knew of Bob Hoover as the epitome of exhibition pilots.
But until I read his
autobiography I was not aware of his years
as a military and civilian test pilot,or just about everyone you
ever heard of in aviation. This book just feels like you are
sitting with
him in a small social gathering, hearing him spin stories.
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Frozen in Time - an epic story of
survival and modern quest for
lost heroes of WW II
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Mitchell
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Zuckoff
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Ever think about making the flight from the US to Europe?
In winter? Without today's GPS
systems? Here is the story
of a crew who tried it, and the years it took to bring the aircraft back
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Gentlemen of Adventrue
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A novel of the early days of aviation
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High Flyers
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Fopp
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Michael
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30 Reminiscences celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the RAF
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Higher Call
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Adam
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Makos
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True story - B-17 coming off of a bombing run, damaged beyond
belief, and escorted to a safe
haven by Luftwaffe pilot. And
the lifelong friendship that followed.
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I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
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Jimmy
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Doolittle
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An autobiography of a fascinating American legend
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In Love and War
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Jim
and Sybil
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Stockdale
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The story of Medal of Honor holder, before, during, and after his
imprisonment in North Viet Nam
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In the Company of Eagles
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A novel of flying in WW I
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Inside the Sky
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William
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Langewiesche
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A meditaion on flight
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John Glenn - A Memoir
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John
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Glenn
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The autobiography of the first American to orbit the earth
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Lindgergh - A Biography
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Leonard
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Mosley
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Lindbergh's life, including the difficult days during and after WW II
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Night Witches
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Bruce
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Myles
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Russian women fighter pilots of WW II
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North Star over my Shoulder
-
a flying life
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Bob
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Buck
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What a time to be an airline pilot - From the beginnings prior
to WW II, to the era of the
747. And Bob was fortunate to fly them all.
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On the Wing -
To the Edge of the
Earth with
the Peregrine Falcon
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Alan
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Tennant
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Falcons in Alaska, and falcons in Mexico - Same birds? And have
we changed the landscape so much
that they might not be able
to make this migration in the future?
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Queen Bess, Daredevil Aviator
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Doris
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Rich
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The story of Bessie Coleman, America's first black women pilot.
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Return of the Enola Gay
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Paul W.
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Tibbets
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The preparation and delivery of America's first atomic bomb
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Riding Rockets
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Mike
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Mullane
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"Outrageous tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut"
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Searching for the Epic of Flight -
107 Books Briefly Noted
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Robert
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Hing
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A wonderful book of book reviews. Robert Hing's list include
s aviation books of all
genres, old and new. Check it out to get
some new suggestions
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Song of the Sirens
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Another Gann bok, this one combining his stories of the sea and air
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Soul Surviver
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Bruce
and Andrea
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Leininger
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James Leininger, two years old. Why does he know so much about
the last flight of James
Huston, a Navy pilot who died in combat
in WW II?
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Stick and Rudder
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Wolfgang
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Langewiesche
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The original (and still the bible) how airplanes (and pilots) fly
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Straight on Till Morning
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Mary S.
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Lovell
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Biography of Beryl Markham
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Target Luftwafte
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William
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Ong
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Tragedy and Triumph of the WW II Air Victory - Features former
Kansas City Flying Club member,
Ken Martin
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Terror of the Autumn
Skies -
The True Story of Frank Luke,
America's Rogue Ace of WW I
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Blaine
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Pardoe
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Who really was America's first ace? The Air Force thinks so much
of him that all
fighter pilots train at Luke Air Force Base
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The 11 Days of Christmas -
America's Last Vietnam Battle
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Michel
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Marshall
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A truly exciting account of the last air battle of the Viet Nam war.
The Story of
Linebacker II. What went right, and mostly what went
wrong. For those of us who were there, this book really tells it like it was.
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The All Girl' Filling
Station's Last Reunion
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Fannie
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Flagg
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Not generally my type of book, but I am glad I found it - a story of the
WASPS, and some thoughts on
how we look at our own parents and
grandparents.
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The Berlin Candy Bomber
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Gail
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Halvorsen
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Dropping candy to kids during the Berlin Airlift
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The Black Watch
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Flying the U-2
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The Cannibal Queen
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Stephen
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Coots
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Flying Across the United States in a Stearman
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The Day the World Came to Town
-
9-11 in Gander
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Jim
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Defede
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What happens when 38 airliners are diverted to a single, small town
- and told that their
passengers, from all over the world, are here to stay.
Could your town cope? This story has been retold as the award-winning
Broadway musical, Come from Away.
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The Flying North
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Jean
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Potter
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A history of flying in Alaska and the Yukon
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The Forgotten 500 -
The Untold
Story of the Men
who Risked All for the Greatest
Rescue Mission of WW II
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Gregory
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Freeman
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How do you bring back 500 downed airmen from the forests of Europe
when the Germans are looking for
them, and many of the "friendlies"
are not necessarily friendly at all.
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The Lucky Bastards Club
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Eugene
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Fletcher
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How B-17 pilots trained and survived
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The Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles
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Lindbergh
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A diary of crossing the Atlantic
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The Wild Blue -
The Men and Boys Who Flew
the B-24s Over Germany
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Stephen
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Ambrose
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A terrific acount of the B-24 in WW II by one of our nation's best historians.
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The Wrong Stuff
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Truman
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Smith
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Adventures and Mis-Adventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
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Two Sides of the Moon
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David
Alexei
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Scott
Leonov
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Side by side descriptions of the space race from the first man
to walk in space , and the commander of
Apollo 15
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Devil at my Heels
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Louis
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Zamperini
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The namesake of Zamperini Airport in the LA area. Here isa version of the
story
"Unbroken" written by Laura Hillenbrand, and subsequently turned
into a movie
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Unbroken"
A World War II story
of survival, resistance
and redemption"
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Laura
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Hillenbrand
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six weeks on a raft, two years in a Japanese POW camp, and ??
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Voyager
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Dick
Jeanna
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Rutan
Yeager
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One takeoff, one tank of gas, one landing, around the world
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Wasps - Women Air Force Service
Pilots of WW II
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Vera S.
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Williams
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America's Women flyers in WW II
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West with the Night
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Beryl
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Markham
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An autobiography of the first woman to fly eastward across the
Atlantic - a fascinating woman
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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Antoine
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de Sain-Exuper y
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The pilot's poet
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North to the Orient
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Anne
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Morrow Lindbergh
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In 1931, Charles and Anne Morrow left New York, bound for China, by way
of Point Barrow Alaska. This is Anne's exquisite retelling of that adventure.
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Nerves of Steel
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Tammie Jo
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Schults
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In April, 2018, Tammie Jo Schults was the Captain of a Southwest Airlines flight
that suffered a simultaneous engine failure and rapid cabin decompression.
This is the story
of not only how she and her crew dealt with the emergency,
but how all of her experience as a woman pilot made her success possible.
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