Historic Aircraft Wrecks Of Los Angeles County
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| Author | : G. Pat Macha |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2014-11-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1625851138 |
A century of aviation research and military flights over Los Angeles County has left the San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Desert and the near-shore Pacific Ocean strewn with more than 1,500 aircraft crash sites. Barnstormers and test pilots too often made unexpected final landings. Accidents occurred on a nearly daily basis during World War II training maneuvers. Private planes, a sign of 1950s prosperity, also met tragic ends. These epic incidents include the 1971 tragedy of Flight 706 in which an airliner collided with a marine fighter jet above Mount Bliss, killing fifty people. Renowned aircraft crash search specialist G. Pat Macha recounts dozens of sorrowful, triumphant and surprising true stories of those who lived through these ordeals while offering touching tributes to those who did not.
| Author | : G. Pat Macha |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2013-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 162584090X |
Weather, darkness and twists of fate have contributed to more than three hundred airplane crashes in San Bernardino County, California. Many of these accidents occurred in the vast Mojave Desert, others on the cloud-shrouded, snow-capped mountains of the largest county in the lower forty-eight states. Searches often were labored yet fruitless, even for the privileged: Frank Sinatra's mother perished here in a downed plane. The quest for an aircraft containing $5,000 in cash has become the stuff of legend. Tales of survival in uninhabited, rugged landscapes have been especially harrowing. Join renowned aircraft-crash search specialist G. Pat Macha for dozens of sorrowful, triumphant, touching and surprising true stories of those who lived through the ordeals of plane crashes--and others who didn't.
| Author | : G. Pat Macha |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467118362 |
Clear weather and a natural harbor made San Diego an early aviation hub, but success in flight came with devastating tragedies. The remains of more than four hundred aircrafts lie scattered across the county's deserts and mountains. Experts estimate that dozens more are on the ocean floor off the coast. In 1922, army pilot Charles F. Webber's DeHavilland biplane went missing over Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. In 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 178 collided midair over San Diego and crashed in the residential North Park neighborhood, claiming the lives of 144 people in what was the worst airline disaster of the era. Author and aircraft accident research specialist G. Pat Macha recounts these and other stories of astonishing survival, heroism and heartbreaking fatality.
| Author | : Gary Patric Macha |
| Publisher | : Disaster |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781626195837 |
A century of aviation research and military flights over Los Angeles County has left the San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Desert and the near-shore Pacific Ocean strewn with more than 1,500 aircraft crash sites. Barnstormers and test pilots too often made unexpected final landings. Accidents occurred on a nearly daily basis during World War II training maneuvers. Private planes, a sign of 1950s prosperity, also met tragic ends. These epic incidents include the 1971 tragedy of Flight 706 in which an airliner collided with a marine fighter jet above Mount Bliss, killing fifty people. Renowned aircraft crash search specialist G. Pat Macha recounts dozens of sorrowful, triumphant and surprising true stories of those who lived through these ordeals while offering touching tributes to those who did not.
| Author | : Shay E. Hopper |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2008-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781557288462 |
Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas-history classes. This fourth edition incorporates new research done after extensive consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state, curriculum coordinators, literacy coaches, university professors, and students themselves. It includes a multitude of new features and is now full color throughout. This edition has been completely redesigned and now features a modern format and new graphics suitable for many levels of student readers.
| Author | : Kevin Starr |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2002-05-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195124375 |
The State Librarian of California presents the sixth volume in "Americans and the California Dream, " one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history. 38 halftones.
| Author | : Robert V. Brulle |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2009-05 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1437912796 |
Few people have experienced as much aerospace history as Bob Brulle (Lt. Col. Robert V. Brulle, USAF, Ret.), and fewer still possess his meticulous recall and research skills. The P-47 fighter pilot turned engineer, inventor, educator, and author found himself immersed in the Cold War race to the moon, developing cutting-edge technology, instructing future astronauts in aerodynamics and orbital mechanics, perfecting high-performance fighter aircraft to meet the Soviet challenge, overseeing the procurement of new weapon systems, and exploring alternative energy sources. In this book, he shares his unique personal insights into the triumphs and tragedies of one of the most exciting eras in American history.
| Author | : Roger W. Lotchin |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780252071034 |
Fortress California, now in paperback for the first time, links the growth of the U.S. military-industrial complex to civic leaders who competed for military bases and military contracts to ensure economic growth. Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, Roger W. Lotchin discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military. He provides instead a detailed and forceful argument that municipalities used federal resources to build urban empires and metropolitan-military complexes. These have increased the flow of federal dollars into the state, thereby shifting the focus of the military-industrial complex from warfare to welfare.
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| Publisher | : LACoFD, Lifeguard Operations |
| Total Pages | : 3935 |
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| ISBN | : 0615604765 |
| Author | : John M. Fredrickson |
| Publisher | : Zenith Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2015-11-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0760348162 |
Warbird Factory tells the American Aviation, Inc.'s WWII war-effort story though over 200 archival photographs directly from the NAA/Boeing archive.
