I Wish I Were A Pilot
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Author | : Stella Blackstone |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781846861352 |
Rhyming text and illustrations portray piloting various forms of transportation including hot air balloons and bicycles.
Author | : Stella Blackstone |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782859659 |
Golden carriages, airplanes, submarines! There are many ways to get from here to there! Some have engines, some have gears and others are powered by people. Using playful rhyming text and brightly colored artwork, this book introduces young travelers to the many forms of transport and travel.
Author | : Patrick Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781594480041 |
Though we routinely take to the air, for many of us flying remains a mystery. Few of us understand the how and why of jetting from New York to London in six hours. How does a plane stay in the air? Can turbulence bring it down? What is windshear? How good are the security checks? Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Salon.com's popular column, "Ask the Pilot," unravels the secrets and tells you all there is to know about the strange and fascinating world of commercial flight. He offers: A nuts and bolts explanation of how planes fly Insights into safety and security Straight talk about turbulence, air traffic control, windshear, and crashes The history, color, and controversy of the world's airlines The awe and oddity of being a pilot The poetry and drama of airplanes, airports, and traveling abroad In a series of frank, often funny explanations and essays, Smith speaks eloquently to our fears and curiosities, incorporating anecdotes, memoir, and a life's passion for flight. He tackles our toughest concerns, debunks conspiracy theories and myths, and in a rarely heard voice dares to return a dash of romance and glamour to air travel.
Author | : Mark Vanhoenacker |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0385351828 |
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
Author | : Andrea Leininger |
Publisher | : Hay House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2009-08-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1848502788 |
James Leininger was just two years old when he began having disturbing nightmares that would not stop. He screamed out in the night: 'Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!' While nightmares are common among children, what happened next shocked those around him... James began to reveal details of planes and war tragedies that no two-year-old boy could know. His desperate parents were at a loss to help him until he said three things: 'Corsair', 'Natoma' and 'Jack Larsen'. From these tantalising clues, James's parents travelled thousands of miles and spent many long years piecing together these facts to try and find an answer that could end his torment. Finally, despite his mother's fears and his father's staunch Christian beliefs, they found only one possibility to the endless coincidences that surrounded every detail in James's life – that their son was reliving the past life of a World War II fighter pilot. Their touching story is one that will challenge sceptics and confirm the beliefs of those who already believe in life after death.
Author | : Eric Braun |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404855343 |
Discusses activities astronauts do while they're in space.
Author | : Jeni Decker |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1616084855 |
The down and dirty world of one autism mom's journey from sex-ed to Santa...
Author | : Richie Lengel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Air pilots |
ISBN | : 9780974261300 |
Author | : Katherine Sharp Landdeck |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1524762814 |
The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II--only to be forgotten by the country they served. When Japanese planes executed a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Cornelia had escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Cornelia was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army's rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. In The Women with Silver Wings, historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck introduces us to these young women as they meet even-tempered, methodical Nancy Love and demanding visionary Jacqueline Cochran, the trailblazing pilots who first envisioned sending American women into the air, and whose rivalry would define the Women Airforce Service Pilots. For women like Cornelia, it was a chance to serve their country--and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled and able as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight of them would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran's social experiment seemed to be a resounding success--until, with the tides of war turning and fewer male pilots needed in Europe, Congress clipped the women's wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they'd forged never failed, and over the next few decades, they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were--and for their place in history.
Author | : Stella Blackstone |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782859705 |
Spot the shapes on top of rolling waves and on sandy shores. This sea-based early learning selection features rhyme and repetition, as well as a full page summarizing the shapes for reinforced learning.