Test Pilots of the Jet Age: Men Who Heralded a New Era in Aviation 9781526747761, 9781526747754

Carrier Pilot: One of the greatest pilots memoirs of WWII a true aviation classic 9781909269606

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Air Disaster 2: The Jet Age

Jet travel shrank the world. Planes could fly faster, further and at higher altitude; opening the door to foreign holida

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Aviation Weather: For Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel

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The Men Who Raised the Bar: The evolution of the highest individual score in Test cricket 1472977556, 9781472977557

Few sporting records capture the imagination quite like that of the highest individual score in Test cricket. It is the

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RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War 9781526758392

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In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation 1557539782, 9781557539786

Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a cl

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Valiant Boys: True Stories from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber (The Jet Age Series) 9781909808218, 1909808210

Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, bring

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Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats 030682910X, 9780306829109

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we

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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation: Passengers, pilots, publicity 9781526118479

Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes

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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio 9781501759338

Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff

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