Lara's Gift

Lara's Gift
Author: Annemarie O'Brien
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307931757

In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has a special bond with the dogs.

Taking Flight

Taking Flight
Author: Raquel Ramsey
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0700634169

In October 1944 Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm clouds of World War II had provided an unexpected opportunity. Taking Flight is the inspiring story of a girl from Depression-era Kansas who overcame tremendous challenges and defied convention to become an elite pilot—one of the few American women to fly fighter aircraft during World War II. Taking Flight follows Nadine as she became one of 1,102 women to join the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots and one of only 303 WASPs to take to the skies in military cockpits, transporting aircraft to bases across the nation for use in the theaters of war. This book marks her milestones: the first Kansas woman to earn a commercial pilot license; among the earliest women to fly the US Air Mail; one of only 26 WASPs who flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a fighter aircraft—and the first woman to own one; the only woman in the country to instruct male pilots to fly fighter planes after the war. Disbanded in late 1944 to make way for male pilots and barred from piloting for commercial airlines, the WASPs spent the next three decades fighting to win veteran status. Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story is a profile in courage of a woman who helped clear the flight path for today’s female combat and commercial aviators.

Hong Kong Takes Flight

Hong Kong Takes Flight
Author: John D. Wong
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674301137

Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process through which this hub emerged, Hong Kong Takes Flight aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making. Viewing the globalization of the city through the prism of its airline industry, Wong examines how policymakers and businesses asserted themselves against international partners and competitors in a bid to accrue socioeconomic benefits, negotiated their interests in Hong Kong’s economic success, and articulated their expressions of modernity.

Taking Flight

Taking Flight
Author: Richard Hallion
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2003-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195160355

Uses extracts from journals, diaries, and memoirs, as well as rare photographs and drawings, to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight, including kites, balloons, rockets, and steerable airships.

Taking Flight Duo

Taking Flight Duo
Author: Alexander Belyaev
Publisher: TSK Group LLC
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2024-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Two writers, two styles, two approaches to one subject. What if a human being could fly? Join the two lions of Russian/Soviet science fiction and fantasy – Alexander Belyaev and Alexander Grin, as they explore the possibility of a flying man from their unique viewpoints.

When Life Takes Flight

When Life Takes Flight
Author: Sabina Jayde Danglais
Publisher: When Life Takes Flight
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781432719937

When life takes flight, should you run for cover? At the tender age of fifty, Jayde announces to her family and friends, that she's decided to move to Florida. Friends cheer her onward...family members wonder if she's going through a mid-life crisis. The struggles and changes through out her life, has left her fighting to hang on to her spirit. Her decision to resign from her job, of fourteen years, cuts her retirement benefits substantially. With the country in a recession, most jobs posted are on hold. Her on-again, off-again second marriage of some twenty-eight years may not survive this decision! br> Is it worth it? Has she made the right choice? Each attempt made to leave for Florida, is opposed by unexpected hurdles. What is it that's holding her back; why won't Texas release her?