Download or read book Jack Knight s Brave Flight written by Jill Esbaum and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?
Download or read book Jack Knight s Brave Flight written by Jill Esbaum and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?
Download or read book Pilot Jack Knight written by A. M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Adventure Series from the early 20th century, Pilot Jack Knight is about "the early days of flying and the pilots who gave wings to America."
Download or read book Pilot Jack Knight written by Anita Melva Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about the early days of flying and the pilots who gave wings to America.
Download or read book Fly By Knights written by Roger D. Graham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military had transitioned to jet aircraft. Yet leaders soon learned prop-driven planes could still play a role in counterinsurgency warfare. World War II-era Douglas B-26 light bombers proved effective in close air support and interdiction, beginning with Operation Farm Gate in 1961. Forty B-26s were remanufactured as improved A-26 attack aircraft, which destroyed hundreds of North Vietnamese supply vehicles on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1966-1969. The personal recollections of 37 pilots, navigators, maintenance and armament personnel, and family members, tell the harrowing story of B-26 and A-26 Air Commando Wing combat operations in Vietnam and Laos.
Download or read book Flight From Bear Canyon written by Anita Daher and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Flight from Big Tangle, Kaylee must fly a plane for a second time, this time to rescue Jack, who has crashed his helicopter near a group of grizzlies.
Download or read book Brave Jack the Flying Squirrel written by Taz and Faz and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few weeks ago, Mother Nature awarded Brave Jack with his new wings for the bravery and courage that he had demonstrated while trying to save his friend from drowning in the local river. Owl and Sparrow are now teaching him how he can build his confidence by showing him how to glide through the air from scary heights and land safely on the ground. He is grateful to learn this new skill and works hard to do it properly.After practicing many times Jack finds himself in a new role, which is to alert the small forest animals when there is impending danger. This does not impress Sneaky Fox at all though because Brave Jack's new wings make it that much harder for him to find a good meal. After being prevented from having a successful hunt yet again, he decides to come up with a plan to get some revenge. Who is Sneaky Fox going to attack? Will Brave Jack be able to stop him in time?
Download or read book Flying Jack written by Kathye Fetsko Petrie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who dreams of flying all his life finally gets his wiish.
Download or read book Brave Jack the Flying Squirrel Episode 3 Friends Helping Friends written by Uncle Fez and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Episode #3, Brave Jack and his forest friends encounter a natural disaster in their own forest. They must flee for safety as a mountain nearby erupts violently spraying lava and shaking the earth all around them!
Download or read book Brave Knights to the Rescue written by Matt Mitter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of John Ireland written by Fiona Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.
Download or read book William McGonagall written by Chris Hunt and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections – Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagall's only play, Jack o' the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.
Download or read book Knight with Armour written by Alfred Duggan and published by London : P. Davies. This book was released on 1971 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic story surrounding the First Crusade, we follow an impoverished young knight on the three-year journey to the Holy Land that culminates in the storming of Jerusalem in 1099. He discovers the grisly reality of life and death on campaign: dysentery, starvation and brutal death in battle.
Download or read book Knight s Castle written by Edward Eager and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four children find a magic way to go back into the time of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood.
Download or read book Lincoln Clears a Path written by Peggy Thomas and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln tried to make life easier for others. Then during the darkest days of the Civil War, when everyone needed hope, President Lincoln cleared a path for all Americans to a better future. As a boy, Abraham Lincoln helped his family break through the wilderness and struggle on a frontier farm. When Lincoln was a young man, friends made it easier for him to get a better education and become a lawyer, so as a politician he paved the way for better schools and roads. President Lincoln cleared a path to better farming, improved transportation, accessible education, and most importantly, freedom. Author Peggy Thomas uncovers Abraham Lincoln's passion for agriculture and his country while illustrator Stacy Innerst cleverly provides a clear look as President Lincoln strives for positive change.
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