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From Battle of Britain fighter station to commercial airport, this is the inspiring story of Biggin Hill.

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Heroic, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird . . . Jim Eames shares great Qantas stories from World War II to the age of the jumbo and beyond.

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The gripping saga of the plane that carried Britain through the Second World War.

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Provides a catalogue of the aeroplanes, enemy and friendly, seen over British skies during the Second World War. This guide features diagrams, glossary and some useful mnemonics and shows how each type of aircraft could be identified quickly and easily. It is intended for those interested in aviation.

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In this collection of true short stories from the U.S. Army's little-known, underappreciated airplane community, readers will get to know the pilots who did what was asked--and lived to tell their tales. Stories about the Cold War, combat, Korea, South America. These stories will both entertain and inform, all the while lending credence to the age old adage: Truth is stranger than fiction.

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Gives a chronological history of the evolution of air travel mixed with elements of pop-culture. This work covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations.

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Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the period was and is romanticised and caricatured.

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This book is about flying small cargo loads in an aircraft known as the Beech 18.

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Explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. This title vividly re-creates 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.

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An adventure story in which a pilot nearing retirement encounters more than he anticipated during his last Beech 18 cargo flight.

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Warbirds pays special attention to the aircraft of America's Golden Age, 1919-1939, and the breakthrough technological developments of that era.

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The history of aviation told through the story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.

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A collection of some of the most interesting New Zealand stories concerning flight - from the days of the early pioneers, through the trauma of the war years to the fiscal forces that buffeted Air New Zealand at the turn of the century.

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In production for over 50 years, the 747 was the first large-capacity civilian airliner.

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For certifed glider pilots and students preparing for certification in the glider category.

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The author was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. He became a Topgun instructor, responsible for teaching the best Navy and Marine fighter pilots how to be even better, training them in the classroom and then going head-to-head in the skies.

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Treasure trove of cutaway views of 1940s aircraft features magazine art from Aeroplane, Flight, Aviation, L'Aeronautique, and other sources. Notes and explanations include information on select British and German planes.

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A new and boldly original history of the iconic aircraft, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography and Harrier.

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Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, Falling Upwards is really a history of hope and fantasy and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight New Republic, Best Books of 2013