Download or read book The Airmail Jennies to Jets written by Benjamin B. Lipsner and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet Age written by Sam Howe Verhovek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. Jet Age vividly recreates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958. At the center of this story are great minds and courageous souls, including Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, who spearheaded the development of the Comet, even as two of his sons lost their lives flying earlier models of his aircraft; Sir Arnold Hall, the brilliant British aerodynamicist tasked with uncovering the Comet's fatal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered president; and Alvin "Tex" Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but supremely skilled test pilot. The extraordinary airplanes themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet and the Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the propeller planes that preceded them, the book captures the electrifying spirit of an era: the Jet Age. In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like It in the World, Verhovek's Jet Age offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting age and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception of distance and time, of a triumph of engineering and design, and of a company that took a huge gamble and won.
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 Turning Point written by Charles Joseph Gross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Air National Guard and the American Military Tradition written by Charles Joseph Gross and published by Defense Department. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the Air National Guard's service and heritage as part of the nation's military forces. Traces the militia tradition and connects this story with the rising influence of air power. Outlines the Air National Guard's three primary missions: to reinforce active duty forces in wartime; to assist State governments responding to natural disasters and public emergencies; and to provide various community service functions. L.C. card 94-067989.
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Download or read book Hawk s Way Colt written by Joan Johnston and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Texas with this fan-favorite by #1 New York Times bestselling author JoanJohnston, previously published in 1998 as The Substitute Groom All of Jennifer Wright's hopes and dreams rest on her summer wedding—until a single momentchanges everything, and Jennifer is left alone and heartbroken. But her fiance's bestfriend, darkly handsome Air Force Major Colt Whitelaw, just might be the one to mend herheart.
Download or read book Jennie written by Roy H. Wilton and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book was written after Roy had retired to honor his beloved mother, Jennie. She passed away when he was just seven years old. He had such fond memories of her. The book is about his life with her and after she passed away.
Download or read book Love and Betrayal written by Robin Tucker and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Newman was one extraordinary woman. Her singing prowess, graceful dance moves, and her ability to create beautiful tunes propelled her to pop superstardom. Her albums had broken many records in terms of sales and her concert tours were sold out. No wonder, her family lives in luxury. She was a good mother and a good wife until her undesirable habits get in the way. Blessed with remarkable beauty, Jenny was an object of both love and lust. Men find it hard to resist her charms; the urge of touching her was just so strong. It¿s something she, too, can¿t resist, and she offers herself without regrets. True love often knocks on her door, but her addiction to sex and alcohol had torn her from the ones she loves. Will she finally get to her senses and fight her urges to keep another true love from slipping away?
