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Flight & Flying: A David White Collection

John Pudney, Editor

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Description:Here is a book that puts young readers in the pilot's seat. Flying's "enormous bliss" has seldom been effectively captured as it is in this anthology of writings by or about the baloonists, early aviators, war aces, glider pilots, barnstormers and astronauts who have shared in the greatest adventure of the 20th century. Collected here are the tales of hazardous solo efforts by Claude Grahame-White, Amelia Earhart and John Glenn; and first-hand accounts of the agonies and triumphs oder aerial combat, involving such famous figures as Cecil Lewis, Captain Albert Ball V.C. and Richard Hillary.Though for many years associated with combat Flying, editor John Putney has also a proper appreciation for the peaceful yet personally momentous occasions in Flying history which are here recorded so rewardingly by writers like Rose Macaulay and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. For the reader with his pioneering still before him, this is a collection to inspire and excite.(From the book's inside front flap)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flight & Flying: A David White Collection. To get started finding Flight & Flying: A David White Collection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 206

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: David White Company

Release: 1968

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Description: Here is a book that puts young readers in the pilot's seat. Flying's "enormous bliss" has seldom been effectively captured as it is in this anthology of writings by or about the baloonists, early aviators, war aces, glider pilots, barnstormers and astronauts who have shared in the greatest adventure of the 20th century. Collected here are the tales of hazardous solo efforts by Claude Grahame-White, Amelia Earhart and John Glenn; and first-hand accounts of the agonies and triumphs oder aerial combat, involving such famous figures as Cecil Lewis, Captain Albert Ball V.C. and Richard Hillary.Though for many years associated with combat Flying, editor John Putney has also a proper appreciation for the peaceful yet personally momentous occasions in Flying history which are here recorded so rewardingly by writers like Rose Macaulay and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. For the reader with his pioneering still before him, this is a collection to inspire and excite.(From the book's inside front flap)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flight & Flying: A David White Collection. To get started finding Flight & Flying: A David White Collection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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