Ernest K Ganns Flying Circus

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553296976
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus written by Ernest K. Gann and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gann reviews a lifetime of adventure in the air, offering a kaleidoscope view of his favorite aircraft and the varied techniques for flying them. Beginning with his carrier and barnstorming days during the Depression, Gann traces the development in America of the commercial use of airplanes. Filled with little-known anecdotes about legendary fliers, including Charles A. Lindbergh. (Planes)

Author : Ernest Kellogg Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus written by Ernest Kellogg Gann and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Kellogg Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340206935
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus written by Ernest Kellogg Gann and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671636030
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate is the Hunter written by Ernest K. Gann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-07-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.

Author : Ernest K Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island in the Sky written by Ernest K Gann and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island in the Sky, first published in 1944, is aviator Ernest Gann's exciting, realistic novel of survival in the far north of Canada. The Corsair, a plane attached to the Army Air Transport Command during the Second World War, is forced to land after heavy icing of the wings makes the plane unflyable. The crew look to Dooley, the pilot for guidance in order to survive the frigid conditions, and from support bases and search aircraft, a rescue mission is mounted. Island in the Sky was the subject of a 1953 movie starring John Wayne.

Author : Ernest Kellogg Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blaze of Noon written by Ernest Kellogg Gann and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839742569
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island in the Sky written by Ernest K. Gann and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island in the Sky, first published in 1944, is aviator Ernest Gann’s exciting, realistic novel of survival in the far north of Canada. The Corsair, a plane attached to the Army Air Transport Command during the Second World War, is forced to land after heavy icing of the wings makes the plane unflyable. The crew look to Dooley, the pilot for guidance in order to survive the frigid conditions, and from support bases and search aircraft, a rescue mission is mounted. Island in the Sky was the subject of a 1953 movie starring John Wayne. Publisher’s Note, Nov. 26, 2015: Note that a recent reviewer’s comment stating that the book ‘lacks many parts...including the entire completion” is not accurate. Our editions of Island in the Sky contain the full and complete text of the book as written by author Ernest Gann.

Author : Ernest Kellogg Gann
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816132577
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aviator written by Ernest Kellogg Gann and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Garry Matheny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075970726
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GOD and SPIES written by Garry Matheny and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOD & SPIES: Based on a True Story. Author GM Matheny was a US Navy saturation diver on the nuclear submarine USS Halibut. Involved in Operation Ivy Bells. America's most important (and most dangerous of the Cold War) clandestine operations. If you like good old fashioned American bravado, espionage and American history, you will enjoy this book. GOD & SPIES is a firsthand account of America's greatest intelligence coup! Operation Ivy Bells was not a onetime intercept of foreign intelligence but an ongoing operation of multiple Soviet military channels! Another reason for the high interest in our operation was the audacious nature in which it was done--with not one person risking his neck but the crews of two US Navy nuclear submarines which rendezvoused in Soviet territorial waters. How did I end up as a navy diver, four hundred feet down in a frigid Russian sea? After making my dad totally disgusted with me, I set out to make him happy. 'Honor thy father' - I struggled with a decision to serve God. 'Lord, I will give my life to you and serve you if you let me make this dive.' But I had the impression He only wanted to know one thing: 'What if I do not let you? Will you serve me anyway?'"BOOK EXCERPT The tenders in the dive chamber who are bringing in Red Diver's umbilical cable, unexpectedly have his cable ripped out of their hands! One of the tenders says, "What's going on?" Matheny's fins have landed back onto the first leg of the DSRV, which keeps him from sliding back any farther. He then pulls toward him about 30 feet of his umbilical cord and makes a dash for the next leg coming down from the DSRV. He makes it, but the red light shining in Matheny's face is reminding him he is running out of time. From his position, he can see the light shining down in the water from the entry point back into the dive chamber. He positions himself to push off the last leg of the DSRV so he can enter the dive chamber. Then unexplainably he is again jerked backward with another sharp pull! This time his face mask slams into the leg of the DSRV. Matheny hurriedly makes a grab for this leg clinging to it.

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0765804719
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Minds of Men written by James H. Billington and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.