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  • North Carolina Aviatrix, Viola Gentry

    The Flying Cashier

    by Jennifer Bean Bower ...
    A photo-filled biography of a pioneering female pilot who became a champion of aviation for women.Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924—and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winston & Salem

    Tales of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem

    by Jennifer Bean Bower ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    A young man charged with murder is marched through the streets of Winston and Salem and hanged on the outskirts of town�?A tragic event carries several citizens into a raging river and to their deaths�?An eccentric with a fascination for chemicals blows himself up at the Salem Hotel�Through the use of primary documents, these and other fascinating stories of Winston and Salem�s past are vividly ... Read more

    $17.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • William Edward Boeing: Sky King

    by Daniel Alef ...
    On Jan. 2, 1910, leading aviators from around the globe converged on Dominguez Hills near Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Air Meet. During the 10-day event, 226,000 spectators saw a dazzling display of airplanes and flight. Many world records were shattered; one pilot soared to 4,164 feet, while Glenn Curtiss hit a blistering 55 mph with a passenger on board. The planes so fascinated one onlooker, ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Air Force One

    A History of the Presidents and Their Planes

    by Kenneth T. Walsh ...
    From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Air Force One.From FDR's prop-driven Pan Am to the glimmering blue and white jumbo 747 on which George W. Bush travels, the president's plane has captured the public's awe and imagination, and is recognized around the world as a symbol of American power. In this unique book, Kenneth ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Hindenburg

    a ship of dreams

    by John Provan ...
    75 years ago, the explosion at Lakehurst marked a dramatic end to the Golden Days of Lighter-than-Air. The crash of LZ-129 “Hindenburg” was the first disaster to be documented in pictures (one photographer even had Kodak color slide film, which had been developed one year prior), filmed by several national camera teams and recorded on records with the famous words of reporter Herb Morrison.For it ... Read more

    $11.13 CAD

  • The Vanishing of Flight MH370

    The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane

    by Richard Quest ...
    CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest offers a gripping and definitive account of the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 in March 2014.On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with barely a trace, carrying 239 people on board—seemingly vanishing into the dark night. The airplane’s whereabouts and fate would quickly become one of the biggest aviation mysteries ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Spitfire Log

    Sixtieth Anniversity Tribune

    by Peter Haining ...
    Of all the airplanes that defended Britain during World War Two, none inspired as much affection as the Spitfire, the plane that became a symbol of courage and determination during the Battle of Britain. Today, over sixty years later, it is still one of the world's most loved planes. This splendidly illustrated tribute to the fighter and the men who flew her is essential reading. It brings ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Amelia Earhart

    A Biography

    by Doris L. Rich ...
    She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Morris Minor: The Biography

    Sixty Years of Britain's Favourite Car

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note… just some of the much-loved characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis back in 1948, in a sense it was Britain’s answer to the Beetle – a bulbous little creation that was also Britain’s first mass-appeal car. Between then and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Saga of the Tin Goose

    The Story of the Ford Tri-Motor 3Rd Edition 2012

    by DAVID A. WEISS ...
    It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing almost everything we have in air travel todayfrom stewardesses to concrete ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Flight of Passage

    A True Story

    by Rinker Buck ...
    **Writer Rinker Buck looks back to a summer when he and his brother, at ages fifteen and seventeen, respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California."Terrific." —The Chicago Sun-Times**In the summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck, two teenaged boys from New Jersey, bought a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it, and piloted it on a record-breaking ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • SAS : Phantoms of War

    A history of the Australian Special Air Service

    by David Horner ...
    SAS: Phantoms of War is the history of the Australian Special Air Service. Originally published as SAS: Phantoms of the Jungle in 1989, and a bestseller since then, this edition has been updated to include details of the SAS's activities in the 1990s and into the 21st century.Based on patrol reports and interviews with participants, this Australian military classic tells the fascinating story of ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD