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“alan e diehl”

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  • Air Safety Investigators

    Using Science to Save Lives—One Crash at a Time

    by Alan E. Diehl ...
    This fascinating story explains how aviation crashes are investigated, and what goes on behind the scenes to improve safety. It is also the untold saga of how one maverick scientist battled the bureaucracy to save lives.Federal officials hired him to prevent an anticipated bloodbath from airline deregulation. He soon introduced innovations, such as Crew Resource Management training, which ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Why Planes Crash

    An Accident Investigator?s Fight for Safe Skies

    by David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek ...
    Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented.He’s worked as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Gift of Wings

    by Richard Bach ...
    From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot.With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and adventurous, each story will grab you and make you want to soar. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Gliding

    From passenger to pilot

    by Steve Longland ...
    Gliding is for everyone who has ever dreamt of riding the air currents with the view stretching to the horizon, and with barely a sound to disturb the moment. Written by an experienced instructor, this book guides you through the first steps to realising that dream, and goes on to explore the many opportunities offered by this compelling and existing sport. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pete the Bushman

    Hunting Tales and Back-Country Lessons from a Wild West-Coaster

    by Peter Salter ...
    The adventures of Pete the Bushman, a wild West-coaster from Pukekura, New Zealand's answer to Crocodile Dundee and a man who owns his own town. This book about a true New Zealand bushman, of a life lived against the grain, of adventure in New Zealand's thickest wilderness and a lifestyle any Kiwi bloke would envy. Pete the Bushman has lived a life inseparable from the bush - these are his stories ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953

    Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953

    by No Kum-Sok with J. Roger Osterholm ...
    On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer. Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his mother had escaped to the South two years earlier, and they were soon reunited. At his request, No ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer

    by Brian D. O'Neill ...
    Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience ... excellent." (Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth) ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Inside the Wright Brothers

    Flight Is Possible

    by John Passfield ...
    This novel, presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite, accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the straight arrow that allows them to see their life's work clearly, to make every decision and action move towards the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Harrier Story

    by Peter R March ...
    Series series The Story Series
    The Harrier story ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Only the Makers Name

    by Ray Blyth ...
    Only The Makers Name is the poignant and reflective memoir of acclaimed Flying Instructor Ray Blyth. Spanning the years of his childhood growing up in a small terraced house on the outskirts of King?s Lynn in the county of Norfolk surviving the Kings Lynn Blitz as well as many childhood adventures, he writes vividly of his early life underscored by his undying ambition to fly. Inspired by an early ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Part 3

    A Family of Engines

    by Peter Pugh ...
    The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain's most prestigious manufacturer - Rolls-Royce.Beginning with the historic meeting in 1904 of Henry Royce and the Honourable C.S. Rolls, and the birth in 1906 of the legendary Silver Ghost, Peter Pugh tells a story of genius, skill, hard work and dedication which gave the world cars and aero engines unrivalled in their excellence ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whisper, an Electric R/C Pylon Racer

    by Roger Winger ...
    ( Updated March 2026 plans download link corrected )The Whisper is a high speed electric pylon racing remote control aircraft. Plans drawn in CAD and instructions to build your own Whisper, are included with the book. Many successful models have been built of the Whisper. All wood and an easy build provides a great flying model aircraft. Great looks and a low cost airframe will provide many hours ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus