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  • Lady Daredevils

    American Women and Early Aviation

    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Though often restricted as aviators, women helped build a stable aircraft industry that became the envy of the world. Barbara Ganson delves into the lives of the women whose work as test pilots, flight school owner-operators, airport managers, and in other roles impacted and reflected larger trends in society.Women aviators challenged social norms that considered them inept with machinery and ... Leer más

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  • Texas Takes Wing

    A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State

    Series series Bridwell Texas History Series
    A history of aviation in Texas that "brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of flight technology as a harbinger of social change" ( Technology and Culture).In this book, pilot and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of the aviation industry in the Lone Star state. Weaving stories and profiles of aviators, designers ... Leer más

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  • Fly Girls

    How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

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  • The Aviator and the Showman

    Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon

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  • Who Were the Wright Brothers?

    Ilustraciones de Tim Foley ...
    Series series Who Was?
    As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world’s first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two ... Leer más

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  • Canadian Women in the Sky

    100 Years of Flight

    How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth’s atmosphere into space.The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilots, and, finally, as astronauts. Anecdotes, sometimes humourous and always amazing, trace these women’s ... Leer más

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  • Amelia Lost

    The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

    From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart.In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's life (from childhood up until her last flight) and the exhaustive search for her and her missing plane. With ... Leer más

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  • Atlantic Fever

    Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

    de Joe Jackson ...
    "A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." — The Cleveland Plain DealerFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's ... Leer más

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  • Bush Pilot

    Early Alaska Aviator Harold Gillam, Sr. Lucky or Legend?

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  • East to the Dawn

    The Life of Amelia Earhart

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    Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life

    Unravel one of history's greatest mysteries in this spellbinding narrative exploring three leading theories of Amelia Earhart's tragic disappearance.When Amelia Earhart's plane disappeared in 1937, the clues poured in, attracting wild conspiracies about her tragic fate.In Lost, former National Geographic reporter Rachel Hartigan delves into Earhart's disappearance, introducing a host of eccentric ... Leer más

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