Cleared For Takeoff

Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 145214348X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by Rowland White and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets—all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams—Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish, entertain, and fire the imaginations of everyone with their head in the clouds.

Author : Julia DeVillers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141699131X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by Julia DeVillers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty Porter has become accustomed to living at the White House since her dad was elected president two months earlier, and she wants to be the best representative she can be for the kids of America. But she starts to worry on her first trip overseas that a mistake on her part could cause a diplomatic disaster. Illustrations.

Author : Kenneth B. Ragsdale
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774354
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austin, Cleared for Takeoff written by Kenneth B. Ragsdale and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands who mobbed Charles A. Lindbergh and The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris sixteen years later. Though no one that day in Austin could foresee all the changes that would result from manned flight, people here—as in cities and towns across the United States—realized that a new era was opening, and they greeted it with all-out enthusiasm. This popularly written history tells the story of aviation in Austin from 1911 to the opening of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 1999. Kenneth Ragsdale covers all the significant developments, beginning with military aviation activities during World War I and continuing through the barnstorming era of the 1920s, the inauguration of airmail service in 1928 and airline service in 1929, and the dedication of the first municipal airport in 1930. He also looks at the University of Texas's role in training pilots during World War II, the growth of commercial and military aviation in the postwar period, and the struggle over airport expansion that occupied the last decades of the twentieth century. Throughout, he shows how aviation and the city grew together and supported each other, which makes the Austin aviation experience a case study of the impact of aviation on urban communities nationwide.

Author : William R. Norwood
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781457523601
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by William R. Norwood and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by the first African American pilot hired by United Airlines.

Author : Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735694207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by Potter and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short background on childhood and education, then detailed account of military and pilot experience leading to a full career with FAA's air traffic service

Author : Professor of Strategy and International Management Thomas C Lawton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138273061
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Take-Off written by Professor of Strategy and International Management Thomas C Lawton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleared for Take-Off is a comprehensive and topical study of the international low fare airline (LFA) business, its market and industry context and the structures and strategies of its main protagonists.

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208270
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Take-Off written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the seventh and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs During his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also felt, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the war's end, when these youthful, but hardened comrades-in-arms were dispersed to find their feet in a traumatised world. Less than a year after demob, Bogarde found himself starring in his third feature film with car, chauffeur and five-storey house in Chester Row. He had somehow 'arrived' in the movies.

Author : Scott Kaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961075108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by Scott Kaye and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501142925
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come from Away written by Genevieve Graham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He is someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand. Come from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.

Author : Julia DeVillers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416995714
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Porter, First Daughter written by Julia DeVillers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberty Porter First Daughter, eight-year-old Liberty Porter’s father has just been elected President of the United States—and she’s the new First Daughter! As Liberty moves into the White House, she vows to make herself indispensable to her country—but can she get past her run-ins with the Chief of Staff?