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by William Avery Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War.
He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war. He was an Air Marshal and a Victoria Cross...
The Silver Spitfire
The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots.
Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own...
Fighting the Flying Circus
The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come out of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In Fighting the Flying Circus, Captain Rickenbacker recounts his combat missions against the Germans in the skies over Europe during WWI.
Fighter Boys
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and...
Knight of Germany Oswald Boelcke German Ace
Oswald Boelcke German Ace
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The story of the fighter pilot the Red Baron himself sought to emulate . . . German air ace Oswald Boelcke was a national hero during World War I and was the youngest captain in the German air force decorated with the Pour Ie Merite while still only a lieutenant and with 40 aerial victories at the...
I Was Hitler's Pilot
The Memoirs of Hans Baur
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
A chilling memoir by the man who flew the Führer.
A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being pitched into the thick of it as personal pilot to a certain “Herr Hitler.” Hitler, who loathed flying, felt safe with Baur...
The Mighty Eighth
The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the skies of World War II Europe, the Eighth Air Force was a defining factor in turning the tide against the Nazis. In these gripping oral histories, the sacrifice, savagery, and supremacy of the “Mighty Eighth” is described by those who experienced it...and survived it.
At the outbreak...
Runway Visions
An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
In February 1967, Air Force Lieutenant Vaughan arrived at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan to begin 14 months as a C-130 Hercules pilot, airlifting supplies and troops throughout southeast Asia. Feeling well suited, Vaughan had volunteered for the duty, but little had he realized the pressure associated...
by Brian Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Lane was the author of Spitfire!, originally published in 1942 under the pseudonym B.J. Ellan. The book is a first hand account of his experiences as a front line Spitfire pilot and is one of only a few contemporaneous autobiographical accounts of the life of a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot.
Summary and Analysis of The Wright Brothers
Based on the Book by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Wright Brothers tells you what you need to know—before or after you read David McCullough’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Dan Ford learned to fly at the age when most men are well into retirement. In this short book, he tells how it was to have a flight instructor one-third his age, to make a Sentimental Journey to the Pennsylvania airport where the Piper Cub first saw the light of day, to practice spins and aerobatic...
Aerotropolis
The Way We'll Live Next
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too.
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the...
Storms of Controversy
The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that...
by John Newhouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing...