Biografien von Luftfahrt- und Speditionsfachleuten

TOPGUN Lessons From The Sky: U.S. Navy

Autor: Fletcher McKenzie

The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa's Visionary Leader George M. Low (Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight)

Autor: Richard Jurek
Vorwort: Gerald D. Griffin

Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot

Autor: Dominique Prinet

Fire in the Sky

Autor: Amos Amir

Test Gods: Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race

Autor: Nicholas Schmidle

Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships

Autor: Elliot Rappaport

Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes

Billy Watkins

German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era

Monique Laney

The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

Corey Mead

Set during the roaring '20s, Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star-crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption.  

During the height of the roaring '20s, Jessie Miller longs for adventure. Fleeing a passionless marriage in the backwaters of Australia, 23-year-old Jessie arrives in London and promptly falls in with the Bright Young Things, those gin-soaked boho-chic intellectuals draped in suits, flapper dresses, and pearls. At a party Jessie meets Captain William Lancaster, married himself and fresh from the Royal Air Force, with a scheme in his head to become as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster will do Lindy one better: fly from London to Melbourne, and in Jessie Miller he's found the perfect co-pilot.  

Within months the two embark on a half-year journey across the globe, hopping from one colonial outpost to the next. But like world records, marriage vows can be broken, and upon their landing in Melbourne Jessie and William are not only international celebrities, but also deeply in love.  

Yet the crash of 1929 catches up to even the fastest aviator, and the couple finds themselves in dire straits at their rented house on the outskirts of Miami - the bright glare of the limelight fading quickly. To make ends meet Jessie agrees to write a memoir, and picks the dashing Haden Clarke to be her ghostwriter. It's not long before this toxic mix of bootleg booze and a handsome interloper leads to a shocking crime, a trial that rivets and scandalizes the world, and a reckless act of abandon to win back former glory.  

The Lost Pilots is an extraordinary true story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation's leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.  

" The tale of two intrepid aviators who got caught in a sordid scandal. . . . How the pair ended up in a Miami courtroom is the subject of Mead's colorful, fast-paced narrative, a tale of ambition, betrayal, lust, and devotion. . . A brisk, entertaining history of daring and passion. " ( Kirkus)

Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

John F. Ross

The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace.

At the turn of the 20th century two new technologies - the car and airplane - took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: The race car driver and the flying ace.

No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction - and often over it - without parachutes, radios, or radar.

Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed - and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War I I. For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance, and courage and emerged as an American legend.

Check Check Recheck: De memoires van fighter pilot, instructor and examiner

Gerrit E. Jacobs, Gerrit Brand

Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void

KS Narendran

De reizen van Olafur Egilsson: een 17e-eeuwse IJslander ontvoerd door moslimpiraten

Ólafur Egilsson

2020 Nautical Almanac

Uk Hydrographic

Alfred Comte. A Life for Aviation

Michel Comte

Zeppelin und die Eroberung des Luftmeeres: Zur Erinnerung an die Begeisterung der großen Tage des Jahres 1908

Dr. Peter Hoogh

Air Babylon (English Edition)

Autor: Imogen Edwards-Jones

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying (English Edition)

Autor: Chris Taylor

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