Wings Above The Arctic
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Wings Above The Arctic
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Author : Bruce McAllister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Wings Above The Arctic written by Bruce McAllister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Aeronautics categories.
WINGS ABOVE THE ARCTIC is the first comprehensive photographic history of arctic aviation. Author Bruce McAllister has interviewed many veteran arctic pilots, some in their nineties, and gathered photographs from dozens of sources around the world. There are chapters on Russian, Canadian, and U.S. pilots who have accomplished extraordinary flying feats in the Arctic.
Wings Over The Arctic
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Author : Mikhail Vasilʹevich Vodopʹi︠a︡nov
language : en
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Release Date : 1957
Wings Over The Arctic written by Mikhail Vasilʹevich Vodopʹi︠a︡nov and has been published by Fredonia Books (NL) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Wings Over the Arctic is not only a story of arctic flights, but is actually a brief history of air conquest of the Arctic. The book tells about the tremendous work done in the Arctic by Soviet polar explorers and their contribution to the development of the countrys aviation and to cultural and economic construction in the northern regions of the Soviet Union.
Wings Over The Arctic
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Author : M. V. Vodop'ianov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 195?
Wings Over The Arctic written by M. V. Vodop'ianov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 195? with categories.
Wings Over The Arctic
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Author : M. Vodopyanov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Wings Over The Arctic written by M. Vodopyanov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
Polar Winds
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Author : Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Polar Winds written by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Transportation categories.
With historical research and rare interviews, explore the highs and lows of aviation north of the 60th parallel. This journey takes readers from hot air balloons above the Klondike gold fields, to international bids for the North Pole, to high-profile crashes and search-and-rescue operations.
Arctic Wings
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Author : Stephen Charles Brown
language : en
Publisher: Braided River
Release Date : 2006
Arctic Wings written by Stephen Charles Brown and has been published by Braided River this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Two hundred color images celebrating the birds that journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge each year are accompanied by essays by noted biologists and conservationists.
Wings Around The World
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Author : Polly Vacher
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2006-11-19
Wings Around The World written by Polly Vacher and has been published by Grub Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-19 with History categories.
A pilot’s account of her around-the-world adventure, including color photos. On May 6, 2003, Polly Vacher, a fifty-nine-year-old mother of three, took off from an airport in Birmingham, England, seeking to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world, via both Poles, in a single-engine aircraft. Despite having only a few years of flying experience, Polly had already completed a lateral solo circumnavigation of the world in 2001 for the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled. This second challenge, for the same charity, would make that achievement look like a casual jaunt. There would be no margin for error. Her voyage to the ice was a thirty-five thousand–mile adventure in her Piper Dakota that would take her to at least thirty different countries on every single continent. She had prepared meticulously for two years, was fully insured, and had all the requisite permits and visas. With her kinetic enthusiasm, charm, and persistence, she had already garnered numerous sponsors. However, as she took off on that blustery spring day—flanked by a Hurricane and a Spitfire and waved off by her family and the Prince of Wales—she suddenly felt so alone. She had begun a remarkable expedition that would gain her three world records—but would also encounter extremes of weather and emotion, much kindness and obstruction, and a little political intrigue. This is the story of that adventure. “Truly inspirational.” —Aviation News
Summer Of A Million Wings
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Author : Hugh Brandon-Cox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Summer Of A Million Wings written by Hugh Brandon-Cox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
The Greatest Show In The Arctic
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Author : P. J. Capelotti
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-05-06
The Greatest Show In The Arctic written by P. J. Capelotti and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with History categories.
In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures—the Wellman expedition (1898–99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901–2), and the Fiala-Ziegler (1903–5)—have much to tell us about the personalities, politics, and economics of exploration in their day. In The Greatest Show in the Arctic, the first book to chronicle all three expeditions, P. J. Capelotti explores what went right and what, in the end, went tragically wrong. The cast of colorful characters from the Franz Josef Land forays included Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant running from debts, his mistress, and an illegitimate daughter; Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a deranged meteorologist with a fetish for balloons and a passion for Swedish conserves; and Anthony Fiala, a pious photographer in search of God in the Arctic. Featuring an international cast of supporting characters worthy of a three-ring circus, The Greatest Show in the Arctic follows each of the three expeditions in turn, from spectacular feats of financing to their bitter ends. Along the way, the explorers accumulated considerable geographic knowledge and left a legacy of place-names. Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.
Arctic Bibliography
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Author : Arctic Institute of North America
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Arctic regions categories.