Download or read book From Jenny to Jet written by Don C. Wigton and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of the world's major airlines profusely illustrated with full-page photographs of nearly every type of commercial aircraft in use since World War I.
Download or read book Jenny to Jet written by Mather Air Force Base (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1963* with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jenny written by David Weitzman and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely 40 years separate the Wright brothers' flight and those of the first jet aircraft. The World War II pilots who were the first to fly those jets and who would later become the first airline pilots, learned to fly in little cloth and wooden biplanes, the aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s. One such airplane was the Curtiss JN4 "Jenny," known as the "Model T of airplanes" because it was the first aircraft to be mass-produced. The Jenny was built in large numbers during the World War I; after the war, surplus Jennys flooded the market, becoming the airplane of choice for barnstormers and early airmail pilots-and the one in which famous aviation pioneers, from Charles Lindbergh to Amelia Earhart to Bessie Coleman learned to fly. Jenny is the story of this remarkable airplane. Told from the point of view of an early pilot, it imagines the experience of flying a Jenny, and illustrates how an aircraft was made during a time when building airplanes was a craft. Besides being beautiful objects, these little airplanes are simple enough that it is easy for young readers to understand not only how they were built, but how their control surfaces work and how they fly. In later decades airplanes would get bigger and heavier, fly faster and higher, but even the most advanced swept-wing jet traces its lineage back to the earliest little airplanes of cloth and wood.
Download or read book From Jennys to Jets written by David Gilmer Towell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jennys to Jets takes you on an All-American adventure. Fly along with daredevil young pilots in the early days of aviation barnstorming, wingwalking, flying through massive snowstorms, landing on jungle airstrips with crocodiles and snakes. The action follows Bill Randall over a 40-year period, from 1918 to 1958. It begins as he barnstorms all over northern California with friends and his bride, Helen. The barnstorming slows in 1926 when Prohibition is in full force. To pay his bills, Bill teaches at a flight school in Oregon that turns out to have a hidden agenda. Later, Bill joins some of his friends flying planes in Howard Hughes epic World War I flying movie, Hells Angels. After the motion-picture adventure, Bill heads to Kansas City to fly the mail between Kansas City and St. Louis. Narrowly missing death in a Christmas Eve snowstorm, Bill and Helen decide to head back to California. When their marriage falls apart, Bill takes a job in Guatemala where he encounters snakes, crocodiles, and other curious creatures in the jungle. After a year, Bill is back in Los Angeles. Now he has to deal with women from an all-girls flying school, mobsters smuggling in Chinese from Mexico, and hookers in the desert. He even makes a special flight to get the famous stripper, Sally Rand, to a court appearance and back to her nightclub act on time. Although Bill was 46 years old at the beginning of World War II, he was still able to join the U.S. Army Air Corps and serve in the South Pacific. His letters home from the Pacific provide new insights into World War II. From Jennys to Jets is a fictionalized account of real-life aviator Bill Randall. Some of the action and many of the characters are purely fictional.
Download or read book A Cross to Bear written by Julieanne Lynch and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his darkest hour, hope leads him to glory. Focus and determination are all that Logan Belanger lives by. Brought up single-handedly by his mother, he moves to Columbus, Ohio, to begin the next phase of his life as a competitive swimmer with Ohio State University. All that changes when he meets Bree, a troubled young woman who hides a dark secret that has the potential to destroy his faith in love. New friendships are forged and bonds created that send his life into a spiral. Not being able to handle the pressures of college life, Logan soon finds himself walking down the dark and lonely path to self-destruction—losing those he loves along the way. Can Logan break the cycle or will his actions be his cross to bear?
Download or read book Air safety written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the Federal Aviation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Explanatory index to exhibits written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Thunderchief written by Henry, Don and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don Henry is a world-class fighter pilot who gets to the bottom of what makes aerial tigers tick. He captures the excitement of getting shot at that haunts their self-proclaimed supreme confidence. Don Henry's Thunderchief is the equal on modern warfare to Stephen Crane�s Red Badge of Courage. " --Gen. Charles A. Hornercoauthor, with Tom Clancy, of Every Man a Tiger "Packed with action, emotion, and tragedy,Thunderchief is the authentic, moving story of a combat pilot�s struggle to overcome peer pressure and fear. Don Henry develops a superb portrait of fighter pilots and how they develop the Right Stuff. Along the way, he also tells us a lot about ourselves." --Walter J. Boyne author of The Influence of Air Power upon History When Americas space program began to look for astronauts, it initially turned to fighter pilots, finding in them men who could remain calm in the face of fear and uncertainty and solve intensely complicated problems in disarmingly simple and effective ways. Men who possessed these skills were said to have"the Right Stuff." Set in 1966 during the Vietnam War, Thunderchief is an extraordinary exploration of what the Right Stuff is and how jet fighter pilots pass it on within their close-knit community. Ashe Wilcox is a young pilot struggling to gain respect through the trials of initiation under fire. He is mentored by Hunter, a tortured POW-camp survivor obsessed with aerial combat and revenge. Ashe and Hunter's relationship, in which Hunter is a reluctant and demanding instructor, leads Ashe on a dangerous and passionate journey of self-discovery. Thunderchief explores the inner conflict and mortal spirit of people in combat and reveals the staggering impact on their families and relationships.
Download or read book AERO TRADER CHOPPER SHOPPER MAY 1996 written by Causey Enterprises, LLC and published by Causey Enterprises, LLC. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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