The Pilots

Author : James Spencer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399149733
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilots written by James Spencer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.

Author : Juliana Marguerite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578822938
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilots written by Juliana Marguerite and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734595901
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Pitch written by Rick Allen and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Major League Baseball's shortest-lived team and its quirky characters--from the dugout to the front office. The year 1969 ushered a new Major League Baseball team into Seattle: the Pilots. After many earlier years of successful minor league ball, the city had high hopes for a similar outcome. With plans for a new ballpark and a temperamental but hot-hitting young player named Lou Piniella in the spring training dugout, Seattle was finally getting their shot in the bigs. But the team lasted only one year before going broke and abruptly moving to Milwaukee to become the Brewers. How did that happen? Jim Bouton's popular 1970 book, Ball Four, immortalized the Pilots' colorful cast of clubhouse characters. Inside Pitch goes beyond the gloves and cleats to tell the story of management misfits and administrative mistakes as the team was played into bankruptcy. On the fiftieth anniversary of the team's 1970 bankruptcy and move to Milwaukee, Inside Pitch takes baseball fans on a behind-the-scenes look into the brief and quirky history of the Seattle Pilots from the unique perspective of two young team administrators. They share their recollections of the team's seemingly inevitable collapse and the Herculean efforts to save it by many in the organization. These same young men--who moved to Milwaukee with the team--also reveal some of the administrative hiccups and hilarities during the early days with the Brewers and their new owner, Bud Selig.

Author : Scott Todd
Publisher : Pilot Handbook Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780984081639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Handbook written by Scott Todd and published by Pilot Handbook Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pilot's Handbook is an illustrated how-to guide of procedures, operations, communications, and reference for all general-aviation pilots. This convenient, cockpit-handy manual features in-depth and specific procedural descriptions intended for reading on the ground, and checklists on heavy tabbed section dividers for use in the air. Hundreds of full-color illustrations illuminate the explanations, and a spiral binding allows for folding over or full opening. It includes descriptions of airports and airspaces, flying into and from Class B and Class C airports, uncontrolled-airport procedures, communications and radio failures, approach briefings including effective use of Jeppesen and FAA charts, and problems and emergencies. Divided into VFR and IFR sections, the latter is a guide to instrument clearances and procedures, including the common ILS, VOR and GPS, and also refreshers for the less frequently used NDBs, DME arcs, procedure turns and course reversals, and holds.

Author : Alan Meyer
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418584
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weekend Pilots written by Alan Meyer and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.

Author : Timothy P. Schultz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424797
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem with Pilots written by Timothy P. Schultz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The pathology of flight -- Engineering the human machine -- Flying blind -- The changing role of the human component -- Flight without flyers -- The modern pilot, redefined -- New horizons of flight -- Conclusion: the past and future of pilots

Author : Don Shepperd
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496950658
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Friday Pilots written by Don Shepperd and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of first-person stories written by old pilots, those who flew the old airplanes in the old air force. These are personal stories of growing up in a different America, their lives before political correctness, back when airplanes were dangerous but flying was fun. The group calls themselves the Friday Pilots. They gather at McMahon's Prime Steakhouse in Tucson, Arizona, every Friday for lunch. There are those who finished careers as generals and colonels and majors and captains and even first lieutenants. They laugh. They exchange stories, some true. They have become legends in their own minds. There are fighter pilots, bomber pilots, airline pilots, corporate pilots, and astronauts. They have run large companies and been on boards. They have been rich and they have been poor. They have landed gear up and gear down. They have ridden huge rockets into space. They have crashed and burned. They have been to war. They have been blown from the skies, have run through jungles, and have parachuted into oceans. They have been captured and imprisoned as POWs and horribly tortured. There are heroes at the table, but none will admit it. They will tell you they have flown with those who were. It seems everyone talks about writing a book. The Friday Pilots have done something few do: they have written their stories for their families and friends. Strap in, hold on, and enjoy the ride!

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316025674
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Wife written by Anita Shreve and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316303057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Wife written by Anita Shreve and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?

Author : Silas Wright
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368864629
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Message from the Governor Transmitting a Memorial from the Pilots of New-York written by Silas Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.