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REINVENTING THE AIRPLANEThis book is an outstanding compilation of history about Burt Rutan, his family, his airplanes, people who built and flew the airplanes he designed, plus the incredible Voyager story. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-15165 | BURT RUTAN - REINVENT AIRPLANE | $24.50 | 
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YEAGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYThe greatest test pilot of them all. The first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. The World War II ace who just kept showing them how, right on into the jet age. 423 pages, 8 pages of photos. Paperback. By Gen. Chuck Yeager with Leo Janus Click here to view more details. |
| 3898 | YEAGER AN AUTOBIO PAPERBACK | $9.50 |
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IT'S ALL UP IN THE AIR BY DON SUMMERSIt's all up in the air spans the aviation career of Don Summers. Told with unique insights and perspective, his story takes the reader through the ups and downs of more than forty years of flying...as bomber pilot, bush pilot, air traffic controller, corporate and charter pilot. This is a trip through the critical, formative years of aviation piloted by a man who grew with the industry. His adventurous life has been up in the air. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-04020 | BOOK - ITS ALL UP IN THE AIR | $11.00 |
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PAN, PAN, PAN!
A SURVIVOR'S STORYPan, Pan, Pan is the story of how I dreamed of being a pilot and never gave up on that dream. It is also an account of having crashed into the ocean twice and living to tell about it. Pan, Pan, Pan shares my love of flying and my desire to do all that I can to help keep the airways safe. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-06104 | PAN,PAN,PAN, A SURVIVORS STORY | $29.95 |
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ALASKA JUSTICE
BY M.D. KINCAIDAlaska Justice is a thoroughly Alaskan adventure, packed with flying action. Trooper Blake uses Bush planes -- on wheels, floats, and skis -- instead of patrol cars, to seek justice in the Last Frontier. Blake fights blizzards, grizzly bears, and crazed-killers in this 100,000 word feel-good novel, which is enjoyed by pilots and passengers alike. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-05271 | ALASKA JUSTICE | $19.95 |
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ASA GALLOPING ON WINGSGalloping on Wings with the P-51 Mustang is the action-packed autobiography by air race pilot Howie Keefe. Howie Keefe, USNR (retired), takes you behind the scenes to get a personal glimpse into the amazing and precarious world of air racing. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-05651 | ASA GALLOPING ON WINGS | $14.95 |
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FLYING CARPETThis is the captivating inside story of the making of a pilot. Well-known and respected author Greg Brown shares the journey of life’s skies as he matures from fledgling to seasoned aviator, encountering aerial adventure and colorful characters all along the way. This book goes beyond traditional flying stories and teaches what it takes to conquer the nagging fears faced by every pilot when attempting to master the challenges of flight. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-01949 | ASA FLYING CARPET:SOUL OF AIRP | $16.50 |
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IN CASE OF WAR BREAK GLASSThis story starts in the spring of 1940, with new pilots joining a Hurricane squadron in the weeks before the Battle of Britain. And one particular pilot, at home in one place and time, sitting on the line between courage and cowardice - a line that every man I’ve ever met, and the majority of the women, wonder which side they sit. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-08040 | IN CASE OF WAR BREAK GLASS | $12.95 |
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TOPGUN DAYSDave Baranek was one of 850 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-08059 | TOPGUN DAYS BIO DAVE BARANEK | $24.95 |
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THE WRONG STUFF BOOKAn aviation cadet during World War II, Moore finished training too late to see action then but made up for it with two tours of duty flying jets in Korea and a distinguished later career as a naval and civilian test pilot. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-08653 | THE WRONG STUFF | $10.75 |
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BETWEEN KITTYHAWK AND THE MOON - MEMOIRS OF AN AVIATION PIONEERThis book is the memoirs of Russell Holderman's contribution to aviation as a true pioneer. Holderman's career spanned from the infancy of aviation to the corporate jet. He completed his first solo flight in a Curtiss pusher biplane in 1913. His license, #227, was signed by Orville Wright. Russ was a stalwart in aviation through sixty years, stunt pilot, barnstomer, World Ware I instructor, airmail pilot, LT. Commander U.S. Naval Reserve, chief pilot for Gannett Newspapers, Past President of the Early Birds, an inductee of the OX-5 club Aviation Hall of Fame - and a friend of many of the other great aviation figures such as Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Eddie Rickenbacker. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-09606 | BETWEEN KITTYHAWK AND THE MOON | $21.95 |
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INSIDE THE SKYWilliam Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many to be the bible of aerial navigation. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-08654 | INSIDE THE SKY | $12.25 |
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NUTS! BY FREIBERGTwenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is Click here to view more details. |
| 13-08649 | NUTS BY FREIBERG | $16.75 |
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FLIGHT OF PASSAGEA Memoir by Rinker Buck. In the summer of 1966, two brothers from New Jersey bought a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it in their barn, and took off on the journey of a lifetime; a daring flight across the Rockies to California. Click here to view more details. |
| 13-09380 | FLIGHT OF PASSAGE | $13.25 |
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