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Those who fall

1986
Recreates the author's years as a B-17 bomber pilot flying missions over northern Italy, German, and Bulgaria during World War II. Ultimately he was shot down and taken prisoner.

Aircraft pilot

2013
Describes what it takes to succeed as a military aircraft pilot, discussing the benefits and drawbacks of choosing the lifestyle, and which future career options are available to former military aircraft pilots.

Drone pilot

2012
Describes what it takes to succeed as a military drone pilot, discussing the benefits and drawbacks of choosing this lifestyle, and which future career options are available to former military drone pilots.

Eugene Bullard

Black expatriate in jazz-age Paris
2000
Chronicles the life of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot, discussing his lifelong search for respect, which led him to leave the U.S. and take up residence in Paris.

Heroes of the US Air Force

2013
Describes the history of the United States Air Force, military decorations, Tuskegee airmen, Flying Aces, astronauts, space and cyberspace, and more.

On glorious wings

the best flying stories of the century
2003
Presents over twenty fiction stories and story excerpts about flying, including selections by Jules Verne, Dale Brown, James Michener, Stephen Coonts, and others.

Fast movers

America's jet pilots and the Vietnam experience
1999
Draws from approximately three hundred interviews to tell the stories of the great American pilots and planes of the Vietnam War.

The four corners of the sky

2010
Navy pilot Annie Peregrine, having received a message that her father--a con man who left her twenty years earlier--is dying, agrees to help him with one last job in exchange for information about the mother she never knew, and finds herself traveling across the country in search of a statue.

Jacqueline Cochran: first lady of flight

1973
A biography of the woman pilot who organized and commanded the Women's Airforce Service Pilots during World War II and became the first civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.

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