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Aviation
Aviation is the activity involving man-made air-borne flying devices (aircraft), including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them.
Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears, to more...
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Filter this CollectionEvery Man a Tiger
Every Man a Tiger (1999) is Tom Clancy's second book in his study of command series. It is partially a biography of General Chuck Horner (CENTAF during Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield), but mostly it is a study of the command decisions,...
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West With the Night
West With the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa), in the early 1900s, leading to a career as a bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature, in...
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
The Wild Blue, by historian Stephen Ambrose, was published in 2001. The book details the lives and WWII experiences of pilots, bombardier, navigators, radio operators and gunners flying B-24s of the U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany, with a...
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Stick and Rudder
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying is a book written in 1944 by Wolfgang Langewiesche, describing how airplanes fly and how they should be flown by pilots. It has become a standard reference text for aviators.
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Airborne
Airborne (1997, ISBN 0425157709) is a book written by Tom Clancy that explores the inner workings of the 82nd Airborne Division and the U.S. airborne forces.
This book is a pretty good book that has many vivid examples of literay devices.