Download or read book Amazing Flights and Flyers written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-winter medical evacuations from the Antarctic; determined and often tragic searches for lost people and planes; daring feats of aviation pioneers; amazing lifestyles of those who choose to live and fly in the Far North – these are the against-all-odds success stories in Shirlee Smith Matheson’s new book. On the other side of the flying field are those who used flight as an opportunity for personal escapes or hijacking capers, or whose fates were suddenly decided by bad luck – engine failure, unpredictable weather changes, or chances taken with unfamiliar machines and terrain. The remarkable stories in Amazing Flights and Flyers encapsulate nearly every human emotion and scenario, and range from the early days of the 20th century to the present.
Download or read book Amazing Flights and Flyers written by Shirlee Smith Matheson and published by Frontenac House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights written by Jack Wright and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Heather Lehr Wagner and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the adventures of Amelia Earhart, and how she overcame an ordinary background to become an extraordinary aviator.
Download or read book The Flyers written by Noah Adams and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I'd entered the black-and-white photograph I'd been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there's a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and Orville, the pilot, are in dark suits. The propellers blur against the sky as the machine rises. . . ." So begins Noah Adams's adventure in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright, a journey that takes him across the country as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers in an attempt to know them more deeply, not just as inventors and pilots but as individuals as well. Adams, one of our most distinctive and talented storytellers, traveled thousands of miles and interviewed scores of experts and individuals to piece together his story. He finds a local boat captain to ferry him to Kitty Hawk, along the same route that Wilbur took in 1900, and spends several days talking with descendants of the families who first welcomed the Wright brothers a century ago and helped them conduct their gliding experiments. To experience first-hand the thrill of being in the air, Adams himself goes hang-gliding in the Outer Banks. To understand the aerodynamics of lift and drag and how the famous 1903 plane was constructed, he visits Ken Hyde, a Virginia pilot and vintage aircraft builder who is creating the world's most accurate reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Adams goes to the prop shop and handles the tools and materials that the Wrights used to build their gliders and planes, and later he visits the wind tunnel at Langley Air Force Base whereHyde's reproduction was tested for the first time. He also travels to France to visit the old racetrack at Le Mans where Wilbur startled the European aviation community with his demonstration flights in 1908, and he spends a few days at Wisconsin's Oshkosh Fly-in, where builders of experimental aircraft and owners of vintage planes gather every year to dazzle the crowds. Adams himself takes to the air in a restored Ford Tri-Motor, America's first airliner, which took its maiden flight seventy years ago. In Adams's book we encounter the Wright brothers in a way that no writer has introduced them before. Through the lens of his own experiences as well as original reporting, letters, diaries, and other primary source material, he helps us understand the talent and intensity of the brothers and their family, including the fascinating, deeply complex, and at times tragic bond between Orville and Katharine, his younger sister. The Flyers is a wonderfully rich narrative that brings an unprecedented spirit of immediacy to one of history's most dramatic stories.
Download or read book Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights written by Elsie N. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nervous Flyer s Handbook Your Portable Flight Coach written by Kate L. Fellows and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a resource for nervous and fearful flyers from someone who can relate Written by an "expert passenger" and former nervous flyer, this portable "flight coach" provides honest, realistic and time-tested ways to manage flight (and possibly even enjoy the experience). The Nervous Flyer's Handbook will help you: - Understand that your feelings about flight are normal - Put your nervousness or fear into perspective - Think about flight in new ways - Prepare for a flight in order to minimize any additional stressors - Understand the basics and get through each phase of flight - Plan effective, distracting activities and coping techniques - Manage special issues that might come up Don't let your nervousness about flight take priority over visiting loved ones, taking that vacation, or an important business trip. The Nervous Flyer's Handbook is here to encourage and coach you along - for all of your future flights Kate Fellows has been a domestic and international "reluctant frequent flyer" for over 20 years, with well over five hundred flights worth of experience. For many of those years, she struggled with an intense fear of flying, but was determined to not let that stop her from visiting family and taking business trips. Finding most fear-of-flying resources from pilots and psychologists either too technical, unrealistic or generic, Kate started writing down her own perspectives, coping techniques and other ideas about the flight experience. Her pile of notes grew with each flight, and she found that re-reading these before and during each flight greatly reduced her fear of flying. Today Kate flies confidently and with ease, and those notes have evolved into this book, which she hopes can benefit other passengers in the same way. Kate lives with her family in Washington state.
Download or read book Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights written by Jack Wright and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two boys made a strange contrast as they flung themselves down in the shade of the tree. They were the same age, sixteen, with Hal having a little edge on his friend. But Bob could have passed for the other boy’s big brother. He was a full head taller, his shoulders were broader, his complexion ruddier. He was the typical outdoor boy, with tousled brown hair, a few unruly freckles, and a broad pleasant face. Hal Gregg was short and slight, with sloping narrow shoulders. His complexion was dark, and his large, serious eyes were hidden behind shell-rimmed eye-glasses. Yet though they were such a badly matched team, the two boys were fast friends...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book Congratulations First Time Flyer written by Barbara Lynn Freedman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flight attendant tells what it's like to travel on an airplane for the first time in this fun, whimsical picture book for all ages.
Download or read book Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights written by J. J. Grayson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure book for the younger reader, telling the story of The Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Emelia Earheart , Dick Byrd and other early aviation pioneers in the form of a series of stories told by an older Captain to young aviation enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Best of Flying written by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights written by Grayson J J and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Flyers written by Allan Drummond and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.
Download or read book Record Flights written by Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undaunted written by Spencer Dunmore and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a dangerous game - but for a resolute few the lure was irresistible. When in 1904 the Wright brothers stayed aloft for more than five minutes, nobody paid them much attention. But over the next couple of decades, beginning with flyers like Bleriot, Farman, Roe, Quimby, and Rogers, aviators began to push the limits of the possible, and their exploits caught the imagination of a public looking for sensation. In "Undaunted, " Spencer Dunmore tells the thrilling story of these dramatic and romantic characters. They were glamorous figures in an exciting new time, an astonishing era in which long-distance aviators were the crown princes and princesses of the technological age and their flights were major sporting events. A breathless public studied their every move, newspapers all over the world bore their photographs, and crowds lined the streets as they drove by. When Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris in 1927, he instantly became the most admired man in the world. Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Howard Hughes, and a host of others, many now forgotten, grabbed a share of his glory. To make a record-breaking flight in the golden age of aviation was to gain fame and, with luck, fortune too. The risks were high few of the pioneers lived to old age but for the mavericks, eccentrics, romantics, and visionaries in this book, the adventure was worth it.
Download or read book Orville Wright written by Janet Benge and published by YWAM Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last Orville was free, soaring above the sand dunes, wind in his face. Lying in the glider's wing, he moved his hips in the control cradle and the craft began to turn as planned. But then something went wrong. The glider wanted to go into a spin, and as Orville struggled with the controls, it came to a standstill in midair. When Orville Wright (1871-1948) and his brother Wilbur set out to solve the problem of flight, they recognized that success would come with careful observation, perseverance, and ingenuity. From experiments in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop to test flights over the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the amateur aviation enthusiasts risked their lives and worked tirelessly to solve the problems that had stumped the world's best scientists. Together the Wright brothers designed and constructed a power-driven airplane and, in it, made the world's first controlled, sustained flights. As a result, the skies were opened and the era of aviation began. Heroes of History is a unique biography series that brings the shaping of history to life with the remarkable true stories of fascinating men and women who changed the course of history. he stories of Heroes of History are told in an engaging narrative format, where related history, geography, government, and science topics come to life and make a lasting impression. This is a premier biography line for the entire family.
Download or read book Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights written by J. J. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
