Download or read book Airborn written by Kenneth Oppel and published by EOS. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . . Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.
Download or read book Air Born written by Timothy Trimble and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thousands of years, the ancient 18th of Ahmose are still on the hunt for the secret of flight, forcing Avitorians to hide in fear. Facing the threat of capture, Leif's dreams are shattered and he is forced to decide between hiding or embracing his heritage. -- Air Born is a Young Adult, Urban Fantasy novel.
Download or read book Air Born written by Jl Pawley and published by Steam Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Born is book one in the exciting unique YA crossover sci-fi series, Generation Icarus. Based on the Wattpad sensation First Flight which had 1 million + downloads, this is a completely revised four book series. The fast moving action story also explores timely issues in society: diversity, the real effects of uncontrolled experiments, developing identity and community, and in many ways is a metaphor for the struggles of coming of age.My past. My present. My future.Destroyed in an instant.So, who am I?Seventeen-year-old Tyler Owen is smart, good-looking, and destined to be a fighter pilot. He's mapped out his life and knows exactly where he's headed. That is, until his first solo sky-dive, when he undergoes a terrifying transformation. Caught on camera, Tyler becomes a viral hit. Everyone wants a piece of him, including the sinister Evolutionary Corporation and a religious cult known as the Angelists.But the worldwide media coverage also alerts others like him. Driven by instinct, they come together and form the Flight. The first of an extraordinary new species, they have only one way to survive.Fly.
Download or read book Born to Fly written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to Fly is the gripping story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies—and beyond. Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age seventeen made headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. These awe-inspiring stories culminate in a suspenseful, nail-biting rate across the country that brings to life the glory and grit of the dangerous and thrilling early days of flying, expertly told by the master of nonfiction history for young readers, National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. Featuring illustrations by Bijou Karman.
Download or read book Starclimber written by Kenneth Oppel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning aerial adventure that started it all Winner of the Governor General’s Award, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and recipient of many other national and international honours, Airborn fired the imaginations of readers around the world when it was first published in 2004 and its popularity has never waned. Airborn was followed by the acclaimed sequels Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, and Starclimber, a Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award Honour Book.With cover illustrations by Jim Tierney, mark a new decade of soaring adventures for this trio of contemporary classics.
Download or read book Kenneth Oppel Airborn Series Three Book Bundle written by Kenneth Oppel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Airborn, enter a past in which airplanes have never been invented, giant airships rule the skies and the glittering skyscrapers of Lionsgate City, Canada’s greatest metropolis, rise near the Pacificus Ocean. When Matt Cruse, the cabin boy on the luxury airship Aurora, fearlessly performs a dramatic rescue to save an old man from his damaged hot air balloon, he doesn’t know what events he’s setting in motion. Will he and the balloonist’s fiery granddaughter, Kate de Vries, be able to solve the mystery of impossible flying creatures seen among the clouds? And will they figure it out before pirates and shipwreck end their voyage forever? Pushed high into the sky by a storm over the Indian Ocean, the decrepit training ship Flotsam makes an astonishing discovery before being forced to descend. Adrift at 20,000 feet is a tattered, ice-crusted airship bearing the name Hyperion. Could it really be the legendary lost craft, now a vast treasure and a frozen mausoleum to a ghostly crew? Matt Cruse is the only member of Flotsam’s oxygen-starved crew able to remember the ghost ship’s coordinates—and it seems as if everyone in the fabulous city of Paris wants them. In Skybreaker, Matt and Kate de Vries are challenged with another thrilling adventure, this time among the icy dangers and strange wonders of the upper atmosphere. At long last, Matt Cruse is at the helm. Though it’s only a summer job piloting a humble aerocrane, he’s thrilled to be helping to build the Celestial Tower, Paris’s extraordinary gateway to outer space. But Matt’s idyllic summer is short-lived. He narrowly survives a deadly attack by the fanatical Babelites, who are opposed to humans reaching the heavens. Worse still, his nights spent stargazing with Kate de Vries must end when she’s summoned back to Lionsgate City by her parents. But then the chance of a lifetime boosts Matt’s hopes of being airborne once more. Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air has asked Kate to join the first expedition as an expert on aerial zoology. There’s a place for Matt, too—if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world’s first astralnauts on board the incredible ship Starclimber.
Download or read book Skybreaker written by Kenneth Oppel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning aerial adventure that started it all Winner of the Governor General’s Award, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and recipient of many other national and international honours, Airborn fired the imaginations of readers around the world when it was first published in 2004 and its popularity has never waned. Airborn was followed by the acclaimed sequels Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, and Starclimber, a Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year Award Honour Book. With cover illustrations by Jim Tierney, mark a new decade of soaring adventures for this trio of contemporary classics.
Download or read book Results of Airborn Reconnaissance and Exploration in the Troublesome Area Middle Park Grand County Colorado written by J. Schlottmann and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Loganair written by Iain Hutchison and published by kea publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the outside looking in, this book seeks to provide an insight into the growth and operations of a unique airline.
Download or read book Born to Fly written by Michael Ferrari and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since she can remember, Bird has loved flying in small propeller airplanes with her mechanic dad. When the local airstrip is turned into a military flight school, Bird is in heaven—and she manages to turn one young airman's interest in her older sister into some personal flight lessons. Then a young Japanese American student named Kenji Fujita joins Bird's class, and the entire school seems to be convinced that he's a spy, a secret agent, or at the very least, that he and his uncle want the Japs to win. But through a class project, Bird and Kenji befriend each other and accidentally discover real spy activity in the area. So begins an adventure that will shake the town and may even change the future of the United States. Winner of the Dell Yearling Contest
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors 3 Volume Set written by Informa Healthcare and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopaedic source in this interdisciplinary field. This is a unique professional reference available in either three hardback volumes or CDROM.
Download or read book Proceedings of TEPEN 2022 written by Hao Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 2022 conference of the Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (TEPEN), held in Beijing and Baotou, China on August 18-21, 2022. Topics include vibro-acoustics monitoring, condition-based maintenance, sensing and instrumentation, machine health monitoring, maintenance auditing and organization, non-destructive testing, reliability, asset management, condition monitoring, life-cycle cost optimisation, prognostics and health management, maintenance performance measurement, manufacturing process monitoring, and robot-based monitoring and diagnostics. The contributions, which were selected through a rigorous international peer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.
Download or read book Preventive and Social Medicine written by Balaram Jana and published by B. Jain Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps You Take The Examination With Confidence.Covers All The Frequently Asked Questions.The Latest Figures And Concepts Are Incorporated.
Download or read book The B 29 Superfortress Chronology 1934 1960 written by Robert A. Mann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was. The introduction to this book provides basic information on the physical plane: dimensions, specs, leading particulars and operational usages. Then an exhaustive day-by-day chronology of the B-29 is presented--from the earliest designs in 1934 through thousands of missions and aircraft events in World War II and Korea to the 1960 retirement of the last operational B-29. The book also includes an extensive glossary and three appendices, which provide a discussion of the general anatomy of a mission, a sample of operational voice or radio codes used in 1945, and a guide to (very unofficial) aircraft names.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language Containing the Pronunciation Etymology and Explanation of All Words Authorized by Eminent Writers to which are Added a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words and an Accented List of Greek Latin and Scripture Proper Names written by Alexander Reid and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Am a Survivor written by Janice E. Holliman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the life of the author. It focuses on her faith, her hope, and her endurance during the years of her illness. In this true story, you will learn the how and why about the effects that changed her family’s life—the author’s Crohn’s disease, the fourteen blood clots, toxic gut syndrome, colitis, tumors, ulcers, vertigo, weight gain and loss, pregnancies, the many surgeries, and how her body would not wake up after some of her surgeries. Having COPD, asthma, sleep apnea, allergies, an enlarge heart, heart diseases, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, hernia, broken toes, swelling, flatlined, everyday fluid build-up, gallstones, a broken back, a broken neck, and surgery for Crohn’s disease, she was almost paralyzed. Not only that, she had bypass and skin removal due to mold. This book discusses all these and the loss of everything for forty years from the mold and much more.
Download or read book Unaccompanied Minor written by Hollis Gillespie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's flight benefits, relying on the flight crews who know she's been shuttling between divorcing parents for a year. Then, there's a hijacking, but why is April's "dad" on board? April flees to the cargo hold with another unaccompanied minor she's met before, and they fight to thwart the hijackers, faking a fire, making weapons from things they find in luggage. At last, locked in the cockpit with a wounded police officer, the boy, and his service dog, April tries to remember everything her parents said to do in a crisis above the clouds. But she knows it won't be enough.
