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  • Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival

    by Tim Lake ...
    Hang on and Fly: A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival.Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 1951 just as Americans are beginning to fly. Then, a loaded plane disappears in the night and can't be found. Panic and frustration reach all the way to the White House.Twenty-six are killed in the most spectacular crash that no one heard on a mountain ... Read more

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  • Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

    by Robert Gandt ...
    Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today

    The Insider's Guide to Air Travel

    by Mark Gerchick ...
    "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience since September 11, 2001.With wry humor and unique insight, Gerchick takes us past the jargon, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Flight 232

    A Story of Disaster and Survival

    by Laurence Gonzales ...
    "A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful." —San Francisco ChronicleAs hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Boeing Versus Airbus

    by John Newhouse ...
    The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century

    Superjumbo of the 21st Century

    by Guy Norris,Mark Wagner ...
    Poised for takeoff on that hot morning in April 2005, the Airbus A380 had the purposeful, powerful presence of a giant predatory bird. With its enormous gulled wings, imperiously tall tail, and broad, domed forepeak, it looked ready to take on the world. And along the way, it has had plenty of supporters-and critics. No civil airliner since the supersonic Concorde has aroused such emotion, such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

    by Sylvia Wrigley ...
    Malaysia Airlines flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur airport shortly after midnight, full of passengers flying to Beijing. Half an hour later, the greatest mystery in aviation history had begun.Though most of us will board an aircraft at some point in our lives, we know little about how they work and the procedures surrounding their operation. It is that mystery that makes the loss of MH370 so ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing of Flight MH370

    The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane

    by Richard Quest ...
    CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest offers a gripping and definitive account of the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 in March 2014.On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with barely a trace, carrying 239 people on board—seemingly vanishing into the dark night. The airplane’s whereabouts and fate would quickly become one of the biggest aviation mysteries ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Commercial Aviation—An Insider’S Story

    by LeRoy Paine ...
    Why do we have airlines? How were they created? Was TWA Flight 800 an accident? How safe are airplanes, and why are they safe? What jobs are there in commercial aviation? This book provides answers to these questions and many more. Understanding how and why an airline is started, structured, and regulated provides the flying public with the answers to why you are safe when you fly. For those ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • FAR/AIM 2019: Up-to-Date FAA Regulations / Aeronautical Information Manual

    by Federal Aviation Administration ...
    Series series FAR/AIM Federal Aviation Regulations
    All the information you need to operate safely in US airspace, fully updated.If you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today’s environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the rules of the US airspace system. In the newest edition of the FAR/AIM, all regulations, procedures, and illustrations are brought up to date to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • BECOME A FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Your flight to success

    by Matteo Narzisi ...
    People asked me: “can you tell me the questions and answers for the interview?” or “what should I do to join your airline?”. They all wanted to know how to become a flight attendant.I wish I could give them the right answer. But I was not allowed. I was in the recruitment team and I couldn’t say a word.Today I have decided to call them back, one by one. I will help them to pass the interview. I ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Airports of Chicago

    by Nicholas C. Selig ...
    To book a ride on the "World's Shortest Airline" or learn aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you've got to go through the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shopping malls of Chicagoland. Many of these airports sprang up after World War I, when training killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers who developed Chicago's flying fields played a ... Read more

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