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Tales of Timeless Wings - #823812

Tales of Timeless Wings conveys the stories of more than a dozen pilots who have devoted a great portion of their lives to the preservation of aircraft that have been in their families for decades. This collection of stories highlights each family's participation in flying, maintaining, and restoring these airplanes-in many cases, as they passed from one generation to the next. A number of these aircraft were even designed and built by family members. It is pilots such as these who are safeguarding and perpetuating our aviation history-and having fun while doing so!

Tales of Timeless Wings is authored by Sparky Barnes Sargent, with a foreword by Norm Goyer, and is published by DGA Enterprises, Inc. 6"x9" paperback. 236 pages with 401 photos, including an insert with color photos of 24 airplanes.

$22.00
Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide - #9001

The essential guide to world aviation in a new full color edition. Identity all the world's aircraft in full color with 3 views and date about over 500 civil and military aircraft.

$24.95
International Aircraft Directory - #ACD

The One-Stop Reference for the most popular aircraft ever flown! The Plane & Pilot editors have done a tremendous job providing readers with detailed descriptions and photographs for hundreds of the most popular aircraft from around the world and answers to the questions most commonly asked by pilots.

Includes details on:
  • Airframe and power-plant data
  • Fun and historical facts
  • Standard data and performance specifications and more...
Throughout the well-illustrated pages, you'll find interesting anecdotes on prominent manufacturers, airplanes, and industry personalities; a comprehensive source for information on aircraft no longer in production, as well as new models of current production aircraft, representing the majority of civilian aircraft in service throughout the world.

Includes all these types of aircraft:
  • Single-engine airplanes
  • Multi-engine airplanes
  • Jets-both commercial and private
  • Classic and antique
  • Homebuilts and kitplanes
  • Sailplanes and motorgliders
  • Warbirds and military aircraft flown by civilian pilots
Aviation enthusiasts and pilots will find this reference tool useful for spot-checking facts about a particular model, identifying unusual aircraft, and recognizing trends in airplane design. The International Aircraft Directory will acquaint pilots with the past so they can appreciate the present and pay tribute to those planes that have, and continue to play an important role in our aviation heritage. Soft cover, 304 pages, illustrated and indexed

$19.95
AC-U-KWIK - #ACUK

North American Edition. Locate airports, FBOs, maintenance shops, and other service providers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

$39.95
The Golden Years of Flying - #GYF

by Captain Tex Searle

Tales from a Remarkable Era in Aviation

The Golden Years of Flying-As We Remember is the legacy of an earlier day in aviation history, recorded by one of the pilots who shared this experience and wrote down his fellow pilots' stories. Captain Tex Searle corresponded with and interviewed several retired DC-3 pilots from the old Frontier Airlines days, and brought all their tales together in one place for a vivid historical account.

Frontier Airlines' history covers from 1946 to 1986, and in her early days, crews hand-flew DC-3s over the high Rockies, in and out of small airports hidden deep in mountain canyons with approaches often referred to as "black holes" due to their almost ominous darkness and lack of reliable visual references. Relating their first-hand experience of flying through "tornado alley" without radar, flying in canyons of sodden clouds while lightning displays an explosion of highlighted pageantry throughout the heavens, the pilot storytellers in The Golden Years of Flying invite you into the cockpit for a lighter dimension, too. Readers will surely enjoy the hijinks and hangar tales of their shared experiences.

As a retired FAL captain himself, the author points out that "flying the DC-3 was just about the best thing that could happen to a man."

Soft cover, 6" x 9" , 228 pages, illustrated.

$19.95
The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told - #GREATEST

Nineteen Amazing Tales from the Sky

At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had constructed a distance shorter than the length of the wingspan of today's 747 jet. They made three other flights the same day, the final lasting 59 seconds for a distance of 852 feet over the ground. The world would never be the same after that day. Makind was finally off the ground in powered flight. And our experiences in the air would forevermore join the literature of human endeavors, to be shared by kindred spirits as well as the curious sorts who have wanted to know, "What was it like up there?"

In The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told, eidtor Lamar Underwood has collected some of the finest writings, both fact and realistic fiction, to lay bare the drama of human beings coping with the skills needed to direct their machines through the vastness of the skies.

With contributions from:
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Ernest K. Gann
  • General Chuck Yeager
  • Leo Janos
  • Tom Wolfe
  • Mary Lovell
  • Richard Bach
  • Rinker Buck
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Derek Robinson
  • and more
$14.95
Galloping on Wings - #GAL WINGS

Galloping on Wings with the P-51 Mustang is the action-packed autobiography by air race pilot Howie Keefe. Howie Keefe, USNR (retired), takes you behind the scenes to get a personal glimpse into the amazing and precarious world of air racing. The author's thrill-a-minute account is an inspiring chronicle of his many fascinating adventures from a lifetime of aviation exploits. Ride along at over 400 mph as he describes remarkable events from his early days of training to setting records and winning trophy after trophy in numerous Unlimited Class Air Races at Reno, Cape May, Miami, and more.

Howie Keefe started his flying career in 1941 flying a Piper J-3 Cub on skis while in the Civilian Pilot Training (CPT) program. After the Navy gave him a pair of gold wings, and retiring from military service in 1950, Howie found a surplus North American P-51, and highly modified it - then flew it to victory at the air races under the name 'Miss America.' The airplane became an icon within racing circles and is still racing today. Galloping on Wings is the story of this distinguished aircraft and the man who flew her through both trying times and victory.

Many World War II historians feel the Army Air Corps' North American P-51 Mustang was the vehicle that truly ended the war in 1945. The designers of this famed aircraft manufactured a fast, maneuverable single-engine fighter that to this day is still considered one of the most beautiful examples of the culmination of aviation art and science in the world. The legendary P-51 has acquired an almost mythical quality and remains one of the most recognizable and revered aircraft of all time. Soft cover, indexed, 7-1/4 x 9, 368 pages.

$19.95
Fliers - #FLIERS

This book is for anyone who's dreamed of flying.

Katie Goode interviews aviators about their art, their careers, their kinds of flying... airshow performers, skywriter, Alaska bush pilot, airline captains, homebuilt airplane pilot, airforce captain, firefighter pilot, news-helicopter pilot, and more.

All of the stories are in the pilots' own words. A perfect gift for experienced pilots or those active in "hangar flying," Fliers is motivational reading for all and makes an excellent guide to careers in aviation! Introduction by: Chuck Yeager. Fully illustrated with photographs. Soft cover and 220 pages.

$14.95
Slipping the Surly Bonds - #SLIPPING

"...succinct, power-packed bits of wisdom which are easily digested by the reader. There's much to be learned as well as enjoyed...." Ron Machado, aviation writer and personality. Soar with the Immortals of the Air. From the exhilarating "High Flight," written by a doomed WWII Spitfire pilot in World War II and the source of this book's title to John Glen's expressions of wonder in orbit, Slipping the Surly Bonds will carry you into the sky with the greatest airmen and women of all time. You'll meet dreamers, balloonists, and inventors of airplanes, da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and hundreds more. A true labor of love, shining with passion, adventure, and eloquence, this collection of more than 1000 enthralling quotations on flight will leave you breathless and yearning for wings.

$16.95
Wing Nuts - #WING NUTS

Wingnuts - " The Sky's the Limit! " Contains 100 aviation cartoons. 8.25 " x 6 ", soft cover

$12.95
Plane Spotter - #PLANE SPOTTER

PASSENGER AIRLINE PLANESPOTTER

Remember when a trip to the airport was a special event? Bring that sense of excitement and discovery back to air travel! The PASSENGER AIRLINER PLANE SPOTTER is loaded with information and provides hours of educational fun for air travelers and aviation enthusiasts of all ages, from the youngster on her first flight to the seasoned road warrior.

Features include:
  • Twelve panel fold-out design.
  • Exciting full color graphics.
  • Relative sizes chart.
  • Quick reference guide to seating configurations.
  • Dozens of tips for spotting most popular airliners
  • Exciting "How Do Airplanes Fly?" section co-written by NASA.
  • The "Parts Department" explains all those "things on an airplane and how they work.
US MILITARY AIRCRAFT PLANESPOTTER

The US MILITARY AIRCRAFT PLANE SPOTTER guide commemorates the achievement of US military aviation in the service of US interests around the world. The recent centennial anniversary of powered flight is the perfect time to reflect on how far aviation has advanced, and nowhere is this more evident than in our remarkable flying forces.

Features include:
  • Twelve panel fold-out design.
  • Exciting full color graphics.
  • Relative sizes chart.
  • Specs detailing branch, manufacturer, speed, range,and ceiling.
  • Dozens of tips for spotting most combat aircraft.
  • Definitions panel for all that technical lingo.
  • Photo gallery of remarkable flight operations.
$7.95
A Hunger for the Sky - #HUNGER

A Hunger for the Sky is a collection of women pilot biographies, authored by Sparky Barnes Sargent and published by DGA Enterprises, Inc. The book features the personal stories of nine women who are irresistibly drawn to the sky.

$17.95
Aviation Firsts - #AV FIRST

Intriguing, fact-filled compendium covers virtually all "firsts" in the history of flight, from the first human being to fly, the first American president to fly, and the first baby born in an airplane to the date when rockets were first used in warfare, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, more.

$5.95
How We Invented the Airplane - #256626

Filled with rare photographs and featuring accounts written by the Wright Brothers themselves, this fascinating firsthand history covers the brothers' early experiments, their construction of planes and motors, the first test flights, life after Kitty Hawk, and much more. Introduction and commentary by Fred C. Kelly. 76 black-and-white photographs.

$12.95
Progress in Flying Machines - #299813

This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893. Written by a distinguished aviation pioneer, it analyzes virtually every experimental flight of the era. These data on flight control and equilibrium were crucial to the early designs of the Wright Brothers. 90 illustrations.

$10.95
Charles A. Lindbergh: The Life of the "Lone Eagle" in Photographs - #278786

Extensive pictorial anthology chronicles extraordinary career of the man who changed aviation history. Over 250 rare photographs, accompanied by detailed captions depict Lindbergh in childhood photos, shots of his "barnstorming" days, views of the young pilot examining damage to his Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" after crashing in 1923, and touring with the Spirit of St. Louis.

$16.95
The Wright Brothers: A Biography - #260569

Written by an old friend of the Wright Brothers, this authorized account has long been considered the definitive biography. Well documented and free of extraneous technical details, it offers engaging tales of boyhood interests, gliding at Kitty Hawk, the first powered flights, and Wilbur's efforts to revolutionize European aviation. 16 photographs.

$12.95
Pocket Ref - #PCR-14

Compact reference book includes information and conversion factors on such topics as carpentry and construction, chemistry and physics, electricity, electronics, general science, hardware, math, money, plumbing, tools, weather, etc. 768 pages.

$12.95
PC Ref - #PCR-13

Compact reference book covering all aspects of personal computers. 766 pages.

$15.95
Auto Ref - #AR

Compact reference book containing information on vehicle systems, color maps, safety, etc. 672 pages.

$12.95
Handyman in Your Pocket - #HMP

Great reference for your do-it-yourselfer! Compact reference book covering topics such as Anchors, drafting, electrical, pipes/fittings, glues/paints/solvents, welding, weight & properties, conversion factors, etc. 768 pages.

$12.95
Measure for Measure - #MM

Compact reference book on international system of units and conversion factors. 864 pages.

$14.95