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West with the Night by Beryl Markham Publisher Comments "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfga Langewiesche Publisher Comments In the early 1940's, Wolfgang Langewiesche wrote a series of articles in Air Facts analyzing the various aspects of piloting techniques. Based on these articles, Langewiesche's classic work on the art of flying was published in 1944. This book explains... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Under a Wing: A Memoir by Reeve Lindbergh Publisher Comments "WE LINDBERGHS STILL KNOW OURSELVES BEST AS A TRIBE: CLOSE-KNIT, SELF-ENCLOSED, AND SELF-DEFINING, ALWAYS PREPARED TO BE BESIEGED BY INVISIBLE FORCES UPWELLING FROM THE PAST...".<P>The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Air Force One: The Aircraft That Shaped the Modern Presidency by Von Hardesty Publisher Comments In the 1940s, FDR was the first airborne president, flying several times in a C-54 nicknamed the "Sacred Cow." In the 1950s, it was aircraft known as "Independence," "Columbine II" and "Columbine III" that transported Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin Publisher Comments Award-winning author James Tobin has at last penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham Publisher Comments His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma. Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes, and Experimental Aircraft by Jim Winchester Publisher Comments Climb into the cockpit of some of the world's most exciting experimental and test aircraft, like the revolutionary Vought XF5U. Nicknamed the "Flying Pancake," the XF5U's unique saucer shape fueled rumors that the United States government was secretly... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Spirit of St. Louis (Scribner Classic) by Charles A Lindbergh Publisher Comments Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention when he completed his famous nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 account, Lindbergh carries the reader from his barnstorming days of youthful vision to his... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved by Elgen M Long Publisher Comments For more than sixty years people have wondered what happened to Amelia Earhart. Here at last is the answer. In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific Ocean only days from completing her famous around-the-world flight. Her plane was never... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman Publisher Comments The story of the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight, and the men behind it.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Aviation on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley Publisher Comments James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary — and totally unknown — true story of courage. Over... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lindbergh by A Scott Berg Publisher Comments Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh -- renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War by Richard Hallion Publisher Comments The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $3.74 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bush Pilots of Alaska by Kim Heacox Synopsis Take a deep breath, buckle your seat belt, and turn the pages of "Bush Pilots of Alaska." Each page is a vicarious thrill, each photo a window into the way Alaskans get around to live, work, and play.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D Crouch Publisher Comments "Crouch (A Dream of Wings) interweaves family drama with the history of aviation in a riveting saga of ingenuity, competing claims, public adulation and technical innovation".--Publishers Weekly. Photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helicopter Oral Exam Guide: When Used with the Oral Exam Guides, This Book Prepares You for the Oral Portion of the Private, Instrument, Commercia (Helicopter Oral Exam Guide) by Ryan Dale Publisher Comments Updated to reflect vital FAA regulatory, procedural, and training changes, this indispensable tool prepares helicopter pilots for their one-on-one "checkride" with an FAA examiner. Providing answers to the most commonly asked questions... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter by James R Chiles Publisher Comments Author and pilot Chiles unveils the ingenuity and sheer determination it has taken to develop the helicopter--a triumph of physics, engineering, and imagination. Offering profiles of the many pilots who have contributed to the helicopters development... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet by Elliott Hester Publisher Comments Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel. You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wright Brothers: A Biography by Fred C Kelly Publisher Comments Engaging story, long considered the definitive biography. Well-documented account, free of technical detail, describes boyhood interests, gliding at Kitty Hawk, their first powered flights, and Wilbur's efforts to revolutionize European aviation. 16... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck Publisher Comments Rinker Buck's beautiful memoir of fathers, sons, and adventure in the skies won abundant praise from critics and readers across the country. Now available in trade paperback, Flight of Passage is set to become the new favorite of the audience of millions... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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