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Lake Michigan Triangle, The
Lake Michigan Triangle, The
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Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
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The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation
The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation
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Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
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A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air
A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air
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Wyoming's Friendly Skies
Wyoming's Friendly Skies
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Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County
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Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey
Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County
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Forgotten Chicago Airfields
Forgotten Chicago Airfields
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County
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The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation
The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation
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Sedona Verde Valley Art
Sedona Verde Valley Art
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North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry
North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry
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North Jersey Beer
North Jersey Beer
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Lost Airports of Chicago
Lost Airports of Chicago
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County
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Rhode Island Disasters
Rhode Island Disasters
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Wyoming's Friendly Skies
Wyoming's Friendly Skies
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Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin
Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin
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Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey
Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey
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Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
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Forgotten Chicago Airfields
Forgotten Chicago Airfields
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Lake Michigan Triangle, The
Lake Michigan Triangle, The
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Mayday Over Wichita
Mayday Over Wichita
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County
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The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads
The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads
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A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air
A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air
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Hidden History of Alabama Aviation
Hidden History of Alabama Aviation
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Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin
Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin
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The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads
The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads
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Rhode Island Disasters:
Rhode Island Disasters:
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Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County
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North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry
North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry
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Lake Michigan Triangle, The

9781467148399

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What disturbing secrets surround the cold, deep waters of Lake Michigan?

Sudden violent storms and rocky shoals have claimed the lives of countless mortals foolish enough to brave the treacherous surf of Lake Michigan. But is there another, unnatural force at work? A force that spirited away a ship's captain from a locked cabin without a trace? A force that caused a perfectly airworthy jet to fly into the waves, taking all its passengers to a watery death? Perhaps these tragedies are linked to numerous UFO sightings over the lake. Or perhaps a clue might be found in the prehistoric Stonehenge-like structures discovered deep beneath the crystalline blue surface.

Historian and storyteller Gayle Soucek will explore the mysteries behind the area known as the Lake Michigan Triangle.

Lake Michigan Triangle, The

Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

9781467142434

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When the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, that sleepy village became an international landmark. In addition to recording their first flight in one of the twentieth century's most famous photographs, the Wrights took hundreds of other images of the windswept clime and the people they met on North Carolina's coast. Historian Larry Tise uses their photographs to reveal people, places and events nowhere else recorded. Join Tise for a guided tour of the Wright brothers' Outer Banks encampment between 1900 and 1911.

Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation

9781626193567

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The Wright brothers are known around the world as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio--their hometown--not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places in the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Today, you can stroll the Wright brothers' neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie where they flew it. A project to restore the Wright brothers' factory--the first American factory built to produce airplanes--will complete the picture. In this book, author Timothy R. Gaffney uses historical research and today's aviation heritage sites to retell the story of the Wright brothers from a hometown perspective.
The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation

Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

9781467155342

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Trace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition.

In an era when transatlantic travel was still dangerous, Italy caused a sensation by announcing its participation in the upcoming Century of Progress World's Fair would be highlighted by an unprecedented formation flight from Rome to Chicago. Led by renowned aviator Italo Balbo, the squadron of two dozen seaplanes accomplished a daring navigational feat that was commemorated by a number of civic monuments that stand in Chicago to this day. Since the United States fought Italy in World War II, the monuments have weathered decades of intermittent controversy. Don Fiore provides a fascinating account of the complex legacy of Balbo's flight.

Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air

9781467137065

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Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state's first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina's aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the "Land of the Sky" in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.
A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails and Air

Wyoming's Friendly Skies

9781467147637

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Boeing Air Transport, a precursor of United Air Lines, began carrying passengers in 1927 on small, uncomfortable airplanes with few amenities. Steve Stimpson, manager of Boeing's San Francisco office, considered hiring stewards to alleviate passengers' concerns. Ellen Church convinced him that employing women, especially nurses, as stewardesses would be a visionary solution. Eight brave young women entered Boeing's brief training program in Cheyenne in May 1930, making them the first airline stewardesses in the world. In 1947, United Air Lines established its Stewardess Training Center in Cheyenne, operating for nearly two decades. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel celebrate the world's first stewardesses, as well as the thousands who followed in their footsteps.
Wyoming's Friendly Skies

Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II

9781626193505

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Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II

Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County

9781467118361

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Clear weather and a natural harbor made San Diego an early aviation hub, but success in flight came with devastating tragedies. The remains of more than four hundred aircrafts lie scattered across the county's deserts and mountains. Experts estimate that dozens more are on the ocean floor off the coast. In 1922, army pilot Charles F. Webber's DeHavilland biplane went missing over Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. In 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 178 collided midair over San Diego and crashed in the residential North Park neighborhood, claiming the lives of 144 people in what was the worst airline disaster of the era. Author and aircraft accident research specialist G. Pat Macha recounts these and other stories of astonishing survival, heroism and heartbreaking fatality.
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Diego County

Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey

9781467149679

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With safety protocols in their infancy and the jet engine still in development, early commercial flight above American cities was too often deadly. Between December 1951 and January 1952, three separate plane crashes barreled down onto Elizabeth, New Jersey. Many dozens perished as the crashes destroyed entire city blocks and wreaked havoc throughout various neighborhoods. Frightened residents turned to the nearby Newark Airport for blame as a groundswell of political pushback occurred in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to stop the airport's expansion. President Truman formed an airport safety commission in response that recommended better zoning around airports and runways. Author Peter Zablocki tells the harrowing story of one of the most unique and tragic series of plane crashes in the nation's history.
Terror over Elizabeth, New Jersey

Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County

9781626190122

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Weather, darkness and twists of fate have contributed to more than three hundred airplane crashes in San Bernardino County, California. Many of these accidents occurred in the vast Mojave Desert, others on the cloud-shrouded, snow-capped mountains of the largest county in the lower forty-eight states. Searches often were labored yet fruitless, even for the privileged: Frank Sinatra's mother perished here in a downed plane. The quest for an aircraft containing $5,000 in cash has become the stuff of legend. Tales of survival in uninhabited, rugged landscapes have been especially harrowing. Join renowned aircraft-crash search specialist G. Pat Macha for dozens of sorrowful, triumphant, touching and surprising true stories of those who lived through the ordeals of plane crashes--and others who didn't.
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County

Forgotten Chicago Airfields

9781626195547

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Nick Selig excavates the highways to the sky that have been covered up by urban sprawl or dissolved by neglect. More than a guide to landing strips that have had startling second lives as shopping malls or retirement homes, he uncovers the excitement of the early days of air travel, when a man might cling to his job as a lavatory truck driver for a closer peek at aviation. In this follow-up to Lost Airports of Chicago," discover how a tractor swap gave birth to Clow International Airport and revel in the daredevil exploits of puddle-jumper pilots over the wide-open spaces of Harlem Avenue."
Forgotten Chicago Airfields

Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin

9781467146333

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, aerialist Ivy Baldwin had achieved celebrity status as a premier tightrope walker, aeronaut and aviation pioneer. He executed astonishing and perilous performances across America and internationally, including Mexico and the Far East. First by flying balloons, he went on to pilot dirigibles and, finally, aircraft. In his later years in Colorado, he became famous for crossing canyons on a tightrope. Historian Jack Stokes Ballard deftly captures Baldwin's colorful and hazardous life from childhood runaway to aviation record holder.
Colorado’s Daring Ivy Baldwin

The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads

9781467119207

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In March 1921, Major John G. Thornell and his crew were detailed to Italy to procure a new experimental airship for the United States Army Air Service. Stationed at Langley Field in Hampton, the ROMA never lived up to expectations despite being heralded as the future of military innovation. Tragically, it crashed and erupted in a ball of fire in 1922, claiming the lives of thirty-four of the brave men aboard. Author Nancy E. Sheppard reveals the forgotten, harrowing story of one of the last great airships and those who sacrificed for the promise of a new era in aviation.
The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads

Rhode Island Disasters:

9781609491000

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How could a perfectly sound U.S. military fighter plane simply vanish from formation on a training flight? Why did the crew of a speeding train choose death over salvation? What really happened one foggy night in 1929 when the Coast Guard fired on a rumrunner in Narragansett Bay? Do guardian angels really exist? Can an airplane be jinxed? In his latest book, Jim Ignasher chronicles twenty-three long-forgotten tales of disaster in the Ocean State. His research includes declassified government reports, which allow for some stories to be told in their entirety for the first time. Collectively, these tales present heroes and villains, adventure and the human condition, strange happenings and unsolved mysteries.
Rhode Island Disasters:

Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County

9781626195837

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A century of aviation research and military flights over Los Angeles County has left the San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Desert and the near-shore Pacific Ocean strewn with more than 1,500 aircraft crash sites. Barnstormers and test pilots too often made unexpected final landings. Accidents occurred on a nearly daily basis during World War II training maneuvers. Private planes, a sign of 1950s prosperity, also met tragic ends. These epic incidents include the 1971 tragedy of Flight 706 in which an airliner collided with a marine fighter jet above Mount Bliss, killing fifty people. Renowned aircraft crash search specialist G. Pat Macha recounts dozens of sorrowful, triumphant and surprising true stories of those who lived through these ordeals while offering touching tributes to those who did not.
Historic Aircraft Wrecks of Los Angeles County

North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry

9781609496951

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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 solo endurance flight record. She became the first federally licensed female pilot from North Carolina that same year. She was a national celebrity, and her job in a New York restaurant secured her the nickname the "Flying Cashier." Gentry became personal friends with fellow pioneers of aviation Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and General James "Jimmy" Doolittle. After a near-fatal crash, Gentry focused her efforts on championing aviation for women and preserving its early history. Author Jennifer Bean Bower reveals the life of one of the great women in Tar Heel State history.
North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry