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Forgotten Aviator

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Author : Barry S. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2011

Forgotten Aviator written by Barry S. Martin and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Air pilots categories.

OUT OR WAR-TORN SKIES, A LEGENDARY PILOT IS BORN Royal Leonard (1905-1962) flew in and out of aviation history - just on the edge of fame. His exploits mirror important developments in the Golden Age of American Aviation (1925-1941) and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). "If Royal's story were told in a novel," says long-time China pilot and author Felix Smith, "nobody would believe it all could have happened to one man." Royal learned his craft at the West Point of the Air in San Antonio, Texas. As a Western Air Express night mail pilot, he pioneered blind flying along the treacherous Rocky Mountains. As a TWA pilot, he introduced celestial navigation. An early Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) officer, he fought for mail plane safety at the cost of his job. He flew the Lockheed Orion in which Wiley Post and Will Rogers later crashed and attributed their fatal accident to a surprising cause. During the 1930s, a handful of elite pilots were racers. Jackie Cochran selected Royal as a copilot for the MacRobertson Race of the Century between England and Australia. Royal also competed in the Bendix Death Race in a Gee Bee Widow Maker. Before World War II, Royal worked for the Chinese warlord known as the Young Marshal who kidnapped Nationalist dictator Chiang Kai-shek and changed the course of Chinese history. Royal provided Communist political commissar Chou En-lai his first plane ride and later served as Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. During the war, Royal's roles were unique. Claire Chennault chose him to command the Flying Tigers Bomber Group. Royal briefed Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on Chinese landing fields for the Tokyo Raid. Royal, Chennault and Madame Chiang Kai-shek planned their own Tokyo bombing raid. Royal survived flying the Skyway to Hell over the Hump for China National Aviation Corporation. No wonder after a perilous flight war correspondent Martha Gellhorn described Royal as her "hero." Author's Biography The author has spent twenty years uncovering a rich trove of private documentary sources about the Forgotten Aviator. Martin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary and has an M.A. in history from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of California - Berkeley. He is a retired Administrative Law Judge and resides in Sacramento, California with his wife, Carolyn.

Sundowner Of The Skies

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Author : Mary Garden
language : en
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Release Date : 2022-07-04

Sundowner Of The Skies written by Mary Garden and has been published by New Holland Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"Oscar Garden was a pioneering pilot who embodied the daredevil spirit of the golden age of aviation when he successfully flew from London to Sydney in 1930 with only 39 hours of previous flying experience. This largely forgotten feat forms the centrepiece of Mary Garden's powerful biography, which situates Oscar's public exploits in his unhappy private life, and her own troubled memories of a distant father."--backcover.

Forgotten Aviator Hubert Latham

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Author : Barbara Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Tempus
Release Date : 2007

Forgotten Aviator Hubert Latham written by Barbara Walsh and has been published by Tempus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Aeronautics categories.

A biography of Hubert Latham

Forgotten Aviator

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Author : Dan Heaton
language : en
Publisher: Branden Publishing Company
Release Date : 2012

Forgotten Aviator written by Dan Heaton and has been published by Branden Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Faced with the challenge of creating an Air Force essentially from scratch, with the nation already in a declared war--U.S. Army leaders were in a scramble. It was the spring of 1917 and the entire U.S. Army had only about 100,000 active-duty soldiers, compared to about 4 million then in uniform for Germany, the largest of the World War I Central Powers. Quality military leaders and men who could teach combat skills to the thousands then being inducted were in high demand. It would be against this backdrop that Lt. Byron Quinby Jones--a stunt pilot who had been kicked out of West Point--who would make his mark. He would go on to wear his nation's uniform for more than 30 years. Now mostly forgotten by history, Jones helped to create one of the nation's first and most-prolific training sites for budding military airmen, setting up shop at a muddy airfield created by an early automobile magnate near Detroit: Selfridge Field. In addition to his skills as a stunt pilot--he was the first U.S. pilot to deliberately fly a loop and live to tell about it--Jones was the pilot of the first American aircraft to ever come under enemy fire. His combat experience, limited as it was, his groundbreaking performance flying both acrobatics and endurance flights and his can-do attitude made him a perfect choice to create one of America's first military flying schools. More than 20 years later, as a Second World War was raging, Jones' name would enter the history books again. Then, the race was on to create a utility vehicle that would eventually become one of the greatest icons of the U.S. military. It would be Jones, who would sign his name on the dotted line and cause the Jeep to come into being. He was Byron Q. Jones. This is his story.

Hubert Latham 1883 1912

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Author : Barbara Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Books
Release Date : 2013

Hubert Latham 1883 1912 written by Barbara Walsh and has been published by Anchor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Aeronautics categories.

Amelia Earhart

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Author : Shelley Tanaka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Amelia Earhart written by Shelley Tanaka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Air pilots categories.

Traces the life and accomplishments of pioneering American aviator Amelia Earhart from her childhood in Atchison, Kansas to the attempted around-the-world flight during which she disappeared.

Antarctica S Lost Aviator

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Author : Jeff Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-02-05

Antarctica S Lost Aviator written by Jeff Maynard and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. The main obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: he didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. A few hours after taking off in 1935, radio contact with Ellsworth was lost and the world gave him up for dead. Antarctica’s Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, photographs, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes.

The Aviator Classic Reprint

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Author : Henry Clay McComas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-17

The Aviator Classic Reprint written by Henry Clay McComas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Health & Fitness categories.

Excerpt from The Aviator Solved. To bring some of this material to the lovers of aviation and to put it in readable form, is the purpose of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hubbard

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Author : Jim Brown
language : en
Publisher: Seattle ; Vancouver : Peanut Butter Pub.
Release Date : 1996

Hubbard written by Jim Brown and has been published by Seattle ; Vancouver : Peanut Butter Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Aeronautics categories.

The Lost Pilots

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Author : Corey Mead
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-06-14

The Lost Pilots written by Corey Mead and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with True Crime categories.

The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane’s long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him? Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far – from London to Melbourne – and in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot. By the time they landed in Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation – and, despite still being married to other people, deeply in love. Keeping their affair a secret, they toured the world until the Wall Street Crash changed everything; Bill and Jessie – like so many others – were broke. And it was then, holed up in a run-down mansion on the outskirts of Miami and desperate for cash, that Jessie agreed to write a memoir. When a dashing ghostwriter Haden Clark was despatched from New York, the toxic combination of the handsome interloper, bootleg booze and jealousy led to a shocking crime. The trial that followed put Jessie and Bill back on the front pages and drove him to a reckless act of abandon to win it all back. The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation’s leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.