Flight into Danger

Flight into Danger
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Publisher : Souvenir Press
Total Pages : 153
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780285643222
ISBN-13 : 0285643223
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Flight into Danger by : John Castle

When George Spencer, a salesman trouble-shooter, managed late one night to catch the last seat on a charter plane at Winnipeg, there was nothing to distinguish the flight from hundreds of others which take place all over the world every day. The fifty-odd passengers were ordinary, intelligent people out to enjoy themselves at an important ball game. The crew were well-trained and efficient. The aircraft was a four-engined luxury plane of the type you would see at any large airport. True, they were late arriving at Winnipeg from Toronto due to local ground fog, but there was nothing alarming in that. It was soon after they had begun the last leg of their journey, across 1,500 miles of rugged mountainous country to Vancouver, that things started to happen - things that could happen anywhere. The reader shares the nerve-wracking tension of an appalling emergency nearly four miles above the earth, learns something of what it means to attempt to control a modern airliner, and follows step by step the urgent developments on the ground. Flight into Danger is a unique collaboration between John Castle and Arthur Hailey, two writers who have each established for himself a considerable reputation for fully-documented, completely realistic suspense. It was originally published in the USA under the title Runway Zero-Eight.

Flight Into Danger

Flight Into Danger
Author :
Publisher : Pocket Books
Total Pages : 153
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0671851551
ISBN-13 : 9780671851552
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Flight Into Danger by : Franklin W. Dixon

Titles include "Webster's New World Dictionary, Webster's New World Thesaurus" and "Words Most Often Misspelled and Mispronounced".

Flight Into Danger

Flight Into Danger
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Publisher : Simon Pulse
Total Pages : 166
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0671700448
ISBN-13 : 9780671700447
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Flight Into Danger by : Franklin W. Dixon

Finding a clue to the whereabouts of the MAX 1 in the Utah desert the boys set out to investigate. Instead they find themselves outnumbered and outgunned in a high-tech, high-altitude air battle.

Airport

Airport
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 551
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101203781
ISBN-13 : 1101203781
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Airport by : Arthur Hailey

Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn’t supposed to take a life—but sometimes, it’s kill or be killed... After a war injury left him half-scoured of his power, Caleb and his jackalope familiar have been shipped out West, keeping them out of sight and out of the way of more useful agents. And while life in the wild isn’t exactly Caleb’s cup of tea, he can’t deny that being amongst folk who aren’t as powerful as he is, even in his poor shape, is a bit of a relief. But Hope isn’t like the other small towns he’s visited. The children are being mysteriously robbed of their magical capabilities. There’s something strange and dark about the local land baron who runs the school. Cheyenne tribes are raiding the outlying homesteads with increasing frequency and strange earthquakes keep shaking the very ground Hope stands on. Something’s gone very wrong in the Wild West, and it’s up to Caleb to figure out what’s awry before he ends up at the end of the noose—or something far worse...

Escape Into Danger

Escape Into Danger
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 327
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1442214694
ISBN-13 : 9781442214699
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Escape Into Danger by : Sophia Orlovsky Williams

Escape into Danger tells the remarkable true story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming-of-age during World War II. Only seventeen when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Sophia left her native Kiev, unwittingly escaping the Babi Yar massacre. On her journey into Russia, she fled from flooding, dodged fires and bombs, and fell in love. At Stalingrad, Sophia turned back in a futile attempt to return home to her mother. Stranded in a Nazi-occupied town, accepted as a Russian, she found work with a sympathetic German officer and felt secure until a local girl recognized her as a Jew. Wit.

Danger's Hour

Danger's Hour
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 530
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780743260817
ISBN-13 : 0743260813
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Danger's Hour by : Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

Drawing on years of research and firsthand interviews with both American and Japanese survivors, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy draws a gripping portrait of men bravely serving their countries in war and the advent of a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombing, that nearly halted the most powerful nation in the world. In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new weapon: kamikazes--the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons. By the beginning of 1945, facing imminent invasion, Japan turned to its most idealistic young men and demanded of them the greatest sacrifice. On May 11, 1945, days after Germany's surrender, the USS Bunker Hill--with thousands of crewmen and the most sophisticated naval technology available--was 70 miles off the coast of Okinawa when pilot Kiyoshi Ogawa flew his plane into the ship, killing 393 Americans in the worst suicide attack against America until September 11.--From publisher description.

Risk Management Handbook

Risk Management Handbook
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 267
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781620874592
ISBN-13 : 1620874598
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Risk Management Handbook by : Federal Aviation Administration

Every day in the United States, over two million men, women, and children step onto an aircraft and place their lives in the hands of strangers. As anyone who has ever flown knows, modern flight offers unparalleled advantages in travel and freedom, but it also comes with grave responsibility and risk. For the first time in its history, the Federal Aviation Administration has put together a set of easy-to-understand guidelines and principles that will help pilots of any skill level minimize risk and maximize safety while in the air. The Risk Management Handbook offers full-color diagrams and illustrations to help students and pilots visualize the science of flight, while providing straightforward information on decision-making and the risk-management process.

The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die

The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die
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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages : 337
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780071504157
ISBN-13 : 007150415X
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die by : Paul Craig

This literal survival guide for new pilots identifies "the killing zone," the 40-250 flight hours during which unseasoned aviators are likely to commit lethal mistakes. Presents the statistics of how many pilots will die in the zone within a year; calls attention to the eight top pilot killers (such as "VFR into IFR," "Takeoff and Climb"); and maps strategies for avoiding, diverting, correcting, and managing the dangers. Includes a Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise that identifies pilot "types" and how each type can best react to survive the killing zone.

Danger Close

Danger Close
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501116391
ISBN-13 : 1501116398
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Danger Close by : Amber Smith

"A memoir of active combat by an elite female helicopter pilot stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan vividly describes her division's high-risk battles and the ways they were challenged to perform under extreme duress, sharing additional insights into her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated unit, "--NoveList.

Danger and Poetry

Danger and Poetry
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 136
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0997355301
ISBN-13 : 9780997355307
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Danger and Poetry by : Joe Karam

One man's discovery into soaring flight. An aviation memoir written for prospective and novice pilots as well as anyone who hasn't stopped dreaming and daring. Praised as "insightful" and "revealing" by Thomas L. Knauff, member of the United States Soaring Hall of Fame and glider pilot from the 1999 motion picture The Thomas Crown Affair.