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Loading... Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Spaceby David Fisher
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit. no reviews | add a review
The history of manned flight spans just under a century, but it includes some of the most glorious adventures in human experience. This title offers a selection of airborne adventures from authors such as Charles Lindbergh, Roald Dahl and Martin Amis. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)629.132Technology Engineering and allied operations Other Branches Aviation Aviation engineering Main Principles of FlyingLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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