Len The Pilot

Author : Wayne Lundquist
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462856128
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Len, the Pilot written by Wayne Lundquist and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Th is book is a love story. Its main focus is on ten years in the life of Len. His chance meeting with a lovely young Southern girl, Velma, was to change his life dramatically. Too, this encounter was no less than destiny. For through this one chance meeting, he was able to salvage tragic loss and overcome intense loneliness which would drastically alter his life and the lives of those he loved, two young sons. It was through aviation that he met his destiny in Velma as he participated in the American Air Races shows. On the sixth of November of 1933, George Weaver bought his daughter, Velma, an airplane ride. Len was the pilot.

Author : Len Buckwalter
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Night Flying Handbook written by Len Buckwalter and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lærebogsagtig beskrivelse af natflyvning navnlig henvendt til privatpiloter.

Author : H. Leonard Thorne
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497286
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A From Spitfire to Focke Wulf written by H. Leonard Thorne and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I hold the greatest respect for Len for what he achieved in the RAF’. – Gordon Mitchell, son of Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell In May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours of operational duty as a fighter pilot, including some desperately dangerous low-level flying at Dunkirk, he was posted to AFDU (Air Fighting Development Unit) and remained there as a test pilot for the rest of the war. Fortunately for us, Len kept a detailed diary, which, set alongside his log book, tells the unique story of a test pilot tasked with developing operational tactics and testing captured enemy aircraft, such as the feared Fw 190. During Len’s career, he worked alongside some of the most famous fighter aces and his records cast light on some of the most famous flyers of the RAF, including Wing Commander Al Deere and Spitfire aces Squadron Leader ‘Paddy’ Finucane, Ernie Ryder and many others. A unique record of military aviation history, From Spitfire to Focke Wulf offers a window to this era of rapid and high-stakes aircraft development.

Author : Leonard Cheshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999812867
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bomber Pilot written by Leonard Cheshire and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Cheshire was one of the most highly decorated pilots of the Second World War. As the Royal Air Force's youngest Group Captain in 1943, he took a drop in rank and went on to command No. 617 Squadron and pioneer low level marking and precision bombing. For this, together with four years of fighting against the bitterest opposition during which he maintained a record of outstanding personal achievement, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. In 1945 he was an official observer of the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Post-war his humanitarian work on behalf of the disabled resulted in the establishment of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation (now known as Leonard Cheshire), the world's leading disability care charity. First published in 1943, Bomber Pilot is Leonard Cheshire's contemporary account of his experiences during his first three years with Bomber Command. His light style captures the exuberance of youth, yet also brings out the growing realization of the responsibilities and dangers facing the young aircrew of Bomber Command. He describes his experience of operating Whitleys with No. 102 Squadron, first as a novice co-pilot and later as captain with his own crew, providing a vivid description of the action for which he was awarded his first DSO. Following a brief interlude in North America he returned to join No. 35 Squadron as it introduced the Halifax into service before moving on to command No. 76 Squadron. In this new edition, Leonard Cheshire's original text is supplemented with an additional commentary by Dr Robert Owen, aviation historian and Official Historian of No. 617 Squadron Association. Providing additional details of the events described by Cheshire, this commentary places them in the broader context of the Bomber Offensive and includes a full record of Leonard Cheshire's operations and wartime awards.

Author : Len Deighton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007347731
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye Mickey Mouse written by Len Deighton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war... and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944.

Author : Christina Olds
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429929097
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighter Pilot written by Christina Olds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This ebook edition does not include the photo insert from the print edition. The widely anticipated memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot, Robin Olds Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them. Proving he wasn't a WWII retread, he led the wing with aggressiveness, scoring another four confirmed kills, becoming a rare triple ace. Olds (who retired a brigadier general and died in 2007) was a unique individual whose personal story is one of the most eagerly anticipated military books of the year.

Author : Peter Rees
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760636428
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Man written by Peter Rees and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were the master of the machine...you were an airman.' Flying Officer Bob Crawford Len Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at thirteen and by twenty was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It was serious and dangerous work and his achievement was extraordinary. These would be the best years of his life. Respected by his peers, he was living his dream. The war over, it should have been easy. He believed he could 'live on both sides of the fence' and be part of Australia's emerging commercial airline industry. He had, after all, broken through the 'black ceiling' once before. Above all, he just wanted to fly. Instead, he became a missing man in Australia's wartime flying history. Peter Rees rights that wrong in this powerful, compelling and at times tragic examination of Len Water's life. He also tells us something of ourselves that we need to hear.

Author : Len Deighton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141995947
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighter written by Len Deighton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, Observer History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective, and even more inspiring, truth. 'Revolutionised thinking about the Battle of Britain in a way that has not been seriously challenged since' The Times

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: