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1) Wings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A love triangle featuring Cassie O'Malley, 17, the adventurous daughter of the owner of an airfield. Despite her father's objections, Cassie becomes a famous test pilot, marries a millionaire who backs her career, but her real love is Nick, one of her father's employees who taught her flying in the first place.
From a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense and intrigue! Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret Nazi spy. With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes, who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world! The dangerous mission transforms the ordinary young...
10) Lighter-than-air: the life and times of Wing Commander N.F. Usborn, RN, pioneer of naval aviation
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Aviation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
11) The aviator
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c[2005]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow a star...
18) Test pilot: testing the Century series of jet fighters at Edwards Air Force Base during the 1950s
Author
Publisher
Mach 2 Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
19) Pilots
Author
Series
Publisher
Garrett Eductional Corp
Pub. Date
[1992]
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Briefly points out some of the risks faced by different kinds of pilots.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his...