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Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From the exhilarating and perilous days of early fight, to the present, where travel on commercial flights all over the world is as common as travel by car, chronicled here is the complete history of the airplane and the persons who have had the biggest impact on the world of aviation, including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Henri Fabre, Sir Frank Whittle, William E. Boeing, and many more! The eight part series explores the world of aviation and contains...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times bestseller
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...
How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them
Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety
The
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At any one time, there are around one million people airborne somewhere in the world; that equates to an entire airborne city -- a "city in the sky." Straddling whole continents, the fabric of this extraordinary construction consists of the 100,000 flights that crisscross the world every single day. Take off around the world, on the arc of an actual journey from departure to arrival, to uncover the invisible global networks and complex logistics that...
Author
Language
English
Description
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop.
Holiday: An iconoclastic young man engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
Only angels have wings: Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government...
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