Jack Knights Brave Flight

Author : Jill Esbaum
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1684379814
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Knight's Brave Flight written by Jill Esbaum and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

Author : Jill Esbaum
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635925673
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Knight's Brave Flight written by Jill Esbaum and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

Author : Anita Melva Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilot Jack Knight written by Anita Melva Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about the early days of flying and the pilots who gave wings to America.

Author : A. M. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479416578
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilot Jack Knight written by A. M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Adventure Series from the early 20th century, Pilot Jack Knight is about "the early days of flying and the pilots who gave wings to America."

Author : Roger D. Graham
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664683X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly By Knights written by Roger D. Graham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military had transitioned to jet aircraft. Yet leaders soon learned prop-driven planes could still play a role in counterinsurgency warfare. World War II-era Douglas B-26 light bombers proved effective in close air support and interdiction, beginning with Operation Farm Gate in 1961. Forty B-26s were remanufactured as improved A-26 attack aircraft, which destroyed hundreds of North Vietnamese supply vehicles on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1966-1969. The personal recollections of 37 pilots, navigators, maintenance and armament personnel, and family members, tell the harrowing story of B-26 and A-26 Air Commando Wing combat operations in Vietnam and Laos.

Author : Kathye Fetsko Petrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563979712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Jack written by Kathye Fetsko Petrie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who dreams of flying all his life finally gets his wiish.

Author : Anita Daher
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554696194
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight From Bear Canyon written by Anita Daher and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Flight from Big Tangle, Kaylee is furious about being left to spend the summer with a girl her own age, Jaz, and Jaz's uncle, Jack. All she wants is time alone with her dog, Sausage. Things change quickly, though, when Jack is injured after his helicopter goes down near a group of grizzly bears. Kaylee and Jaz must team up to save him, and Kaylee finds herself once again at the controls of a plane.

Author : Chris Hunt
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857900730
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William McGonagall written by Chris Hunt and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections – Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagall's only play, Jack o' the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.

Author : Fiona Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351750089
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of John Ireland written by Fiona Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.

Author : Jack Graybill
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480956414
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Kristin written by Jack Graybill and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess Kristin A Tale of Live, Loyalty and High Adventure By: Jack Graybill The Wizard of Meisendorn-on-the-Rhein has died, leaving his only daughter with the secrets of his magic. As Kristin, the Wizard’s daughter, learns more, she becomes a hero to the town of Meisendorn, using her wits and talent to heal the sick and help the poor. Soon she meets the charming and noble Prince Friedrich and wins his heart. But their story doesn’t end there with happily ever after. The Prince and Princess face a series of daring adventures and vile villains: the Demons’ Tower, with its host of bandits and undead; the bloodthirsty army of the evil Dreltholst Veister; the cunning witch Hex-aba with her grotesque minions. And, of course, the most exciting adventure of all: the adventure of raising a family. The Princess Kristin is an epic of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and romance in which true love really does conquer all.