Early Years of Flight
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Asylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (Mayblin Lucy)Asylum seekers are not welcome in Europe. But why is that the case? For many scholars, the policies have become more restrictive over recent decades because the asylum seekers have changed. This change is often said to be about numbers, methods of travel, and reasons for flight. In short: we are in ... |
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Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge (Shults Captain Tammie Jo)Now available in trade paper Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shultss remarkable life--from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navys first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southw... |
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This Is a Love Story'Lyrical, graceful - Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City' Jenny Jackson, NYT-bestselling author of Pineapple Street'A revelation - the kind of novel to read in one sitting' Liz Moore, bestselling author of The God of the WoodsAbe and Jane have been together for fifty ye... |
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Vimana: Flying Machines of the Ancients (Childress David Hatcher)According to early Sanskrit texts the ancients had several types of airships called vimanas. Like aircraft of today, vimanas were used to fly through the air from city to city; to conduct aerial surveys of uncharted lands; and as delivery vehicles for awesome weapons. David Hatcher Childress, popula... |
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Magnificent Women in Flying Machines: The First 200 Years of British Women in the Sky (Smith Sally)Balloons, parachutes, airplanes, gliders, airships -the extraordinary personal tales of the women who led the way in early British aviation! There is no book that covers the roles played by the lesser known British women in aviation, and while Amy Johnson is a household name, many women performed ... |
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Dreamland: The Secret History of Area 51 (Merlin Peter W.)Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now, aerospace historian Peter Merlin cuts through the myths and conspiracy folklore to reveal in extraordinary detail the true story of how a ramshackle temporary outpos... |
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Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter Than Air Aviation (Burton Anthony)This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the worlds first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with a... |
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AEROFLOT – Fly SovietDespite the borders of the USSR being closed to majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world's most frequent flyers. Following the 1917 Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made the development of aviation a priority. Assisted by advertising campaigns by artists such as Alexander Rodchenko... |
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Pioneers of Aerial Combat: Air Battles of the First World War (Foley Michael)When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasnt strong enough to light a fire and it was in other parts of Europe, nota... |
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Jordan Henderson: The AutobiographyPRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK NOWYou've seen him become a Liverpool legend, watched as he and Jude Bellingham lead England through the world cup - now get to know the real Jordan Henderson, both on off the pitch . . .'A brilliantly told story with a uniquely vivid sense of what it is like on the pitch in ... |
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-11: A Legends of Flight Illustrated History (Borgmann Wolfgang)The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 three-engine jet is one of the most distinctive wide-bodied aircraft and since the early 1970s has been operated by many airlines on medium- and long-distance routes throughout the world. Successfully flying passenger service for over 40 years, the DC-10 currently still f... |
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The French Aircraft Carrier Clemenceau (Koszela Witold)The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau was one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21, 1957. Together with the twin Foch, it... |
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Douglas DC-3: A Legends of Flight Illustrated History (Borgmann Wolfgang)The Douglas DC-3 was a twin-engine airliner that first flew in 1935 and was a pioneer during the early years of international commercial flight. An elegant and robust design, the DC-3 was the definitive American airliner of the immediate pre-World War II era and was flown by many of the worlds most ... |
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This Is a Love Story (Jessica Soffer)'Lyrical, graceful - Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City' Jenny Jackson, NYT-bestselling author of Pineapple Street'A revelation - the kind of novel to read in one sitting' Liz Moore, bestselling author of The God of the WoodsAbe and Jane have been together for fifty ye... |
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Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History (Bisney John)The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Ea... |
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Avro Vulcan B.Mk2: A Place in History, 1960-84 (Fildes David W.)In 2022, the Avro Vulcan celebrated the 70th anniversary of its first flight on 30 August 1952. The Vulcans chief designer was Technical Director Roy Chadwick, who unfortunately was killed on a test flight in 1947 and never got to see one of his most famous designs take to the skies. A member of the... |
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Precision: A History of American Warfare (Patton Rogers James)We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history. As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve precision in war began in 1917, during the early ye... |
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . .Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . .[making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changin... |
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