Hawks At My Wingtip

Author : Bill Welch
Publisher : North Country Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawks at My Wingtip written by Bill Welch and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Hawk Migration Study combined the world of hawkwatching and aeronautical engineering for a unique view of birds in flight. Specially outfitted in a Sperber motorglider, which allowed slow, sustained highly maneuverable flying, author Bill Welch and his colleagues followed the hawks on their East Coast migrations, riding the same thermals as the raptors, and making detailed observations never before possible of hawk flight and navigation.With over 35 black-and white photographs and charts, Hawks at My Wingtipsis a detailed and fascinating look at the worlds of birdwatching and high-performance flying. Both written and photographic accounts of these flights capture a feeling of what it is like to soar with nothing but wind under your wings!

Author : Irving Farmer Kennedy
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9780919431829
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Crosses Off My Wingtip written by Irving Farmer Kennedy and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eberhard Gwinner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642745423
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Migration written by Eberhard Gwinner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. GWINNER! The phenomenon of bird migration with its large scale dimensions has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Worldwide billions of birds leave their breeding grounds every autumn to migrate to areas with seasonally more favor able conditions. Many of these migrants travel only over a few hundred kilo meters but others cover distances equivalent to the circumference of the earth. Among these long-distance migrants are several billion birds that invade Africa every autumn from their West and Central Palaearctic breeding areas. In the Americas and in Asia the scope of bird migration is of a similar magnitude. Just as impressive as the numbers of birds are their achievements. They have to cope with the enormous energetic costs of long-distance flying. particularly while crossing oceans and deserts that do not allow replenishment of depleted fat reserves. They have to appropriately time the onset and end of migrations. both on a daily and annual basis. And finally. they have to orient their migratory movements in space to reach their species- or population-specific wintering and breeding grounds, irrespective of the variable climatic conditions along their migratory routes.

Author : Joan Moos
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462062148
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Soar written by Joan Moos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many of us have looked up to see the birds soaring effortlessly in the sky and wished that we could feel their freedom? Those of us still earthbound can, in a way, soar if we open our hearts and minds to the limitless things around us. A slight attitude adjustment is sometimes all that is needed to give us the feeling of calm so often sought and set our spirits free. In To Soar: Life is an Attitude, Joan Moos shows us through her poetry that we should make conscious choices to deal in a positive way with new situations in our lives. Just a walk in the park can find a treasure trove of new wonders. Leafing through a photo album can release memories of happy times, and learning something new can be most rewarding. In Part Six of To Soar, Moos introduces us to the joy of actual soaring flight, a pathway that she herself has taken. There are always new horizons to see, new wonders yet to behold, and new goals still to pursue. Each of us must continue to make the most of every moment that we have been granted, and be ready to soar.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim LaHaye
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842371223
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing Eternity written by Tim LaHaye and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feft Behind - Daily devotion 398 pages.

Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440520011
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dad Is My Hero written by Susan Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children often have trouble telling their father how much they love him. Fortunately, this book expresses those emotions for them. This endearing collection of stories about the everyday heroics of the contributorsÆ fathers, and father figures, will show Dad how much he means to his children. From the story of a fly fishing trip that bonded father and daughter to the one that saw a friendÆs imposing father turn into the contributorÆs own loving father-figure, this wonderful book brings together tales of heroic dads from all walks of life, and is a great way for his kids to show him how much they care. And it lets dads everywhere know that they donÆt need to be daring to be heroicùthat it can be the little things that mean the most to his kids.

Author : Clive Rowley
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 139901563X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lightnings to Spitfires written by Clive Rowley and published by Air World. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former fighter pilot chronicles his career flying for the Royal Air Force for over four decades in this action-packed memoir. For forty-four years, Clive Rowley flew with the Royal Air Force, and for thirty-one of those years he specialized as an air defense fighter pilot. Such was his love of fast fighter aircraft that, in order to stay flying, he transferred to Specialist Aircrew terms of service, relinquishing any chance of further promotion above his rank of squadron leader. During those years Clive flew Lightnings, Hawks, and Tornado F.3s but, perhaps more intriguingly, for eleven years he flew Hurricanes and Spitfires with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), the RAF’s, if not the world’s most famous “warbird” display team, which he ultimately led and commanded. Many readers will have watched him, perhaps unknowingly, as he flew these iconic aircraft, often alongside the Lancaster, at air shows and large-scale commemorations around the UK and Europe. During the Cold War, Clive flew the BAC Lightning from Gütersloh in Germany and in the UK, becoming an expert in the art of air combat in the process. Then for sixteen years he flew the Tornado F.3 as the RAF moved into expeditionary operations. Packed with humorous and often hair-raising anecdotes, but also revealing the shock and sorrow he felt at the deaths of friends and colleagues, this book is a highly detailed account of life as a fighter pilot in the RAF in the last three decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Clive is open about the fears he sometimes felt in this dangerous world and how he allayed them to continue flying for more than four decades. This book is illustrated with wonderful photographs from his time on the front line as well as with the BBMF, many of which have never been published before. If you have ever wondered what it is like to fly supersonic jet fighters, like the Lightning and the Tornado F.3, or iconic “warbirds,” such as the Hurricane and Spitfire, Clive Rowley brings you into those cockpits and shares his experiences.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Corps News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1616739843
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell Hawks! written by Robert F. Dorr and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell Hawks sets a new standard for histories of the tactical anti-war in Europe. Veteran authors Bob Dorr and Tom Jones combine masterfully crafted veteran interviews with the broader picture of the air war fought by the Thunderbolt men. You gain a new appreciation of just how tough their deadly task was, and the courage needed to fly close air support against the Nazi fighters and flak. This outstanding book raises the bar on aviation history as it brings alive the true story of an aerial band of brothers." - Colonel Walter J. Boyne, National Aviation Hall of Famer, former director of the National Air & Space Museum, and best-selling author Hell Hawks!is the story of the band of young American fighter pilots, and their gritty, close-quarters fight against Hitlers vaunted military. The "Hell Hawks" were the men and machines of the 365th Fighter Group. Beginning just prior to D-Day, June 6, 1944, the groups young pilots (most were barely twenty years old and fresh from flight training in the United States) flew in close support of Eisenhowers ground forces as they advanced across France and into Germany. They flew the rugged, heavily armed P-47 Thunderbolt, aka the Jug. Living in tents amid the cold mud of their front-line airfields, the 365ths daily routine had much in common with that of the G.I.s they supported. Their war only stopped with the Nazi surrender on May 8, 1945. During their year in combat, the Hell Hawks paid a heavy price to win the victory. Sixty-nine pilots and airmen died in the fight across the continent. The Groups 1,241 combat missions -- the daily confrontation of sudden, violent death -- forged bonds between these men that remain strong sixty years later. This book will tell their story, the story of the Hell Hawks.