Aviation - History
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West with the Night (Warbler Classics)
$12.95 Add to cartIn West with the Night Beryl Markham chronicles her unconventional, free-spirited girlhood in Kenya and her adventures as a rescue pilot, mail carrier, and bush pilot, scouting game for safaris all ov
- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1954525346
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
$26.99 Add to cartToday, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to H… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777257
- Language: English
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
$28.95 Add to cartYears before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competin… [more below]
- Author: Lancaster, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1631496379
- Language: English
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Flight of Passage: A True Story
$21.99 Add to cartWriter Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Havi… [more below]
- Author: Buck, Rinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14, 1998
- ISBN10: 0786883154
- Language: English
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Flight: The Complete History of Aviation
$50.00 Add to cartFrom the early pioneers to the latest spaceflight technology, this groundbreaking book charts the inspirational story behind humankind’s conquest of the skies. In the 100 years since the Wright brothe… [more below]
- Series: DK Definitive Visual Histories
- Author: Grant, R. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0744048451
- Language: English
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Aircraft: The Definitive Visual History
$40.00 Add to cartTake an action-packed flight through the history of aircraft and discover the intrepid pioneers who made a dream reality
Uncover the engineering behind more than 800 aircraft models, from military jets… [more below]- Series: DK Definitive Transport Guides
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0744027454
- Language: English
