Fly Low Fly Fast

Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly Low Fly Fast written by Robert Gandt and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever insider foray into the world's fastest and most dangerous aviation sport is as thrilling as Ernest Gann's classic Fate Is the Hunter or Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff In Fly Low, Fly Fast, Robert Gandt takes us into the high-risk world of the Reno Air Races, attended every year by more than 100,000 spectators and featured on scores of web sites. Flying wingtip to wingtip around pylons at 500 mph, just feet above the sagebrush, Reno's killing machines are piloted by an adrenaline-addicted, type-A elite whose big talent and big egos spawn a hundred stories. With the same vivid reportage of his Bogeys and Bandits --"about as close as you can get (to the cockpit) without arming the ejection seat," said the San Diego Union-Tribune--Gandt traces the history of this exhilarating but often deadly sport. He follows the evolution of competition planes from the 1930s custom exotics to today's big, throaty warbirds like the Mustang and Bearcat, still the fastest piston-engine planes ever built. Gandt also looks at the evolution of the pilots from famous laconic old-time air cowboys to the younger, slicker hot shots, the jet-fighter-trained "top guns." Fly Low, Fly Fast ignites with fierce rivalries, the struggles to keep the vintage warbirds flying, the heart-stopping drama of the races themselves...with winners, losers, close calls, spectacular crashes, and glorious victories. It's a book for aviation buffs, armchair adventurers and anyone fascinated by the passions that drive men and women to test their limits--and risk their lives--in the quest for speed.

Author : Robert L. Gandt
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670884513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly Low, Fly Fast written by Robert L. Gandt and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This foray into the world's fastest and most dangerous aviation sport is as thrilling as Ernest Gann's classic "Fate Is the Hunter" or Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff."

Author : M. T. Bass
Publisher : White Hawk Aviation Adventure Stories
ISBN 13 : 9781946266231
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racing the Dream written by M. T. Bass and published by White Hawk Aviation Adventure Stories. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strap down the 5-point harness in the cockpit of a Formula 1 air racing plane and join Hawk as he chases victory! First on their amateur make-shift course over Antelope Acres, then on the re-emerging pylon racing circuit in the early 1960s. And finally, as Hawk battles 7 other top-level pilots at the very first National Championship Air Races event in Reno!Abandoning the cloth and his African mission, Father Bob resurrects his engineering slide rule to design Hawk's racer. With Sparks, his loyal yet surly mechanic, building it and wrenching both on the engine--as well as on Hawk--he keeps them at the front of the pack. Home again in Los Angeles from behind the stick of a T-6 Texan as a mercenary in the Congo civil war, air racing is a new aviation adventure for Hawk. Ride along as he tangles with fellow pilots in "uncooperative formation flying" at two-hundred miles per hour, just fifty feet off the ground!And then one day, cruising home to Van Nuys airport Hawk spies Allison, a beach-blonde surfer girl, insanely wing walking on a Stearman PT-17 bi-plane. He quickly sets his sights on her.Fly low¿Fly fast¿and Turn Left¿Cover art courtesy of the National Championship Air Races from their inaugural 1964 Reno Air Race poster.

Author : Don Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142408174
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly High, Fly Low (50th Anniversary ed.) written by Don Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Caldecott Honor book from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of Corduroy! Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up on a skyscraper. Sid's view of San Francisco is without equal. So Sid asks the lovely dove Midge to share his home. But one morning, while Midge is taking her turn sitting on two eggs, disaster strikes. A truck comes and workers take down the letters on the skyscraper one by one. Winner of a Caldecott Honor, Fly High, Fly Low is a heartwarming story of two birds making a home--and then making another one--in one of America's great cities.

Author : Pamela Tuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620148594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Fast as Words Could Fly written by Pamela Tuck and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a whites-only high school.

Author : Asst Prof David G. Newman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409467953
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Fast Jets written by Asst Prof David G. Newman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed overview of the human factors and performance limitations associated with flying fast jets, integrating all the latest available research literature on the demanding operational tasks faced by such pilots and aircrews. As such, it has a strong military focus, dealing with pilots of fighter aircraft, attack aircraft and lead-in fighter trainer aircraft that are traditionally only single or dual pilot operations.

Author : Brian Shul
Publisher : Lickle Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780929823089
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sled Driver written by Brian Shul and published by Lickle Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aircraft ever captured the curiosity & fascination of the public like the SR-71 Blackbird. Nicknamed "The Sled" by those few who flew it, the aircraft was shrouded in secrecy from its inception. Entering the U.S. Air Force inventory in 1966, the SR-71 was the fastest, highest flying jet aircraft in the world. Now for the first time, a Blackbird pilot shares his unique experience of what it was like to fly this legend of aviation history. Through the words & photographs of retired Major Brian Shul, we enter the world of the "Sled Driver." Major Shul gives us insight on all phases of flying, including the humbling experience of simulator training, the physiological stresses of wearing a space suit for long hours, & the intensity & magic of flying 80,000 feet above the Earth's surface at 2000 miles per hour. SLED DRIVER takes the reader through riveting accounts of the rigors of initial training, the gamut of emotions experienced while flying over hostile territory, & the sheer joy of displaying the jet at some of the world's largest airshows. Illustrated with rare photographs, seen here for the first time, SLED DRIVER captures the mystique & magnificence of this most unique of all aircraft.

Author : William P. Lear
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781584970095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly Fast, Sin Boldly written by William P. Lear and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill's memoir is an incredible tale of life-long risks as an aviator and daredevil lin what has recently become one of the fastest growing spectator events in the world, air racing.

Author : Jerry Pook
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844682587
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Freestyle written by Jerry Pook and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British Royal Air Force pilot recounts his 25-year career in the cockpit during the Cold War in this military memoir. During a twenty-five-year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment where he trained German and Italian pilots and navigators. Jerry had a long relationship with the Harrier Fighter/Ground Attack vertical take-off aircraft. This he flew in West Germany at the height of the Cold War operating from Wildenrath and off-base operations with Field Wing operations based in the fields and woods of the German countryside. Jerry saw action during the Falklands War when based on HMS Hermes and flying one of the few RAF Harriers in the Ground Attack role in support of the troops fighting ashore. He then enjoyed flying the American-built Starfighter RF 104G during a three-year exchange tour with the Dutch Air Force—he describes the Starfighter as “beautiful to fly, smooth and sophisticated, supremely fast and powerful—if you took liberties with it you knew it would kill you in an instant.” After three years with No 1 (Fighter) Squadron and again flying the Harrier, he moved to the then new Tornado, flying in its bomber role. This he continued to fly operationally and in the instructional role for thirteen years until grounded from military flying for medical reasons.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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