Life in a Spin. the riveting recollections of an international helicopter pilot, Paperback - Nick Mylne

A helicopter pilot's memoirsIllustrations: 12 colour photos and 20 black and white cartoons

Reducere. John Vanvorden--the Flying Dutchman--is a Vietnam pilot and one of the rugged few who know the danger and thrill of combat while piloting the U.S. ...

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By 1969, the Sikorski H-34 was an older helicopter with severe limitations for combat duty in Vietnam. For pilots like US Marine Lieutenant Rick Ge...

Reducere. Advance praise for Heart of the Storm"Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fl...

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Reducere. David Earl Henard received his commission as a second lieutenant signal officer in the US Army upon his graduation from the University of Missouri ...

Reducere. "This book is OUTSTANDING The Author has seen some really exciting times in his life, in addition to some WOW flight hours. I read this in two days...

Reducere. Inspiring and ``riveting...vivid and harrowing`` (Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon), Danger Close is the first memoir of active combat by a f...

Reducere. Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy Zahn's Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra hel...

Vietnam Saga is a very personal story of Stan Corvin's often perilous times in the U.S. Army as a two tour combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It's...

Tales from the cockpit of the Tornado and Hawk provide an authentic impression of what it was actually like to fly these iconic aircraft types.Publ...

Reducere. On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped in...

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Reducere. This book is about the continuation of someone else's war and the very early days in the assumption of that war by the United States of America. It...

Provides an engineering history of the human powered helicopter creatively designed, skilfully built, and courageously flown by students of the Uni...

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction an...

When Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she "saw not much in those first few days besides...

Reducere. True story about sculptor Margot McMahon's youth in Chicago and her travels, where she discovers her passion for art, justice and nature. The daugh...

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began t...

Reducere. The only comprehensive illustrated history of Frank N. Piasecki and his H-21 advanced technology helicopter. The Piasecki H-21 became the first suc...

Managing change in a rapidly shifting economy and an era of increased globalization requires strong leadership-and a practical step-by-step approac...

Every child who grew up in Australia in the 70s and 80s remembers Curiosity Show, the science show that encouraged kids to build their own experime...

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric installments, Colin Cotterill's award-winning Dr. Siri Paibou...

This is the definitive biography of a man that was at the heart of the music world of the 1960s and 1970s. It is essential reading for anyone with ...

Telling the story of three years of classroom-based research, this sequel to the bestselling Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories reveals the...

*THE SIDE-SPLITTING NEW COMIC SHORT FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED WRITERS, NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES*Each week, Tom and Louise meet for a quick ...

In his best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism has no tendency towards a fair distri...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

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Reducere. David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States - this autobiography r...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...