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The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies
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Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history.
Aviator Lincoln Beachey broke countless records: He looped-the-loop, flew upside down and in corkscrews, and was the first to pull his aircraft out of what was a typically fatal tailspin. As Beachey and other aviators took to the skies in death-defying acts in the early 20th century, these innovative daredevils not only wowed crowds but also redefined the frontiers of powered flight.
Higher, Steeper, Faster takes listeners inside the world of the brave men and women who popularized flying through their deadly stunts and paved the way for modern aviation. With heart-stopping accounts of the action-packed race to conquer the skies, this book will exhilarate listeners as they fly through history.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For women, and dads
- De Cecilia Avanelle en 08-08-18
De: Keith O'Brien
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Race to Hawaii
- De: Jason Ryan
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-racking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter land after flying a full day and night across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights to Hawaii in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Aviation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Calm winds and Clear Skies
- De Anonymous User en 04-05-22
De: Jason Ryan
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To Conquer the Air
- The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
- De: James Tobin
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without that plumbs the depths of creativity and character. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured the interplay of remarkable personalities at an extraordinary moment in our history. In the centennial year of human flight, To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story
- De Jere en 05-30-03
De: James Tobin
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: Thomas Kessner
- Narrado por: Bob McGraw
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Worthwhile
- De Ray Daniels en 11-11-22
De: Thomas Kessner
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Wilbur and Orville
- A Biography of the Wright Brothers
- De: Fred Howard
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 21 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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The Wrights' longest flight in 1903 covered 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. In 1905, Wilbur flew 24 miles in 38 minutes and the issue was no longer how to fly but how to cash in. Their effort to exploit their invention is a suspense story of the best kind; their voyage into flight and into American history is a gripping tale from takeoff to landing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not hard to put down...
- De James en 03-17-12
De: Fred Howard
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,013
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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Enduring Courage
- Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace. No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true ace, and an example for us all.
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-20-14
De: John F. Ross
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The Millionaires' Unit
- De: Marc Wortman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller; the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad; several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard story to get into.
- De Craig Walker en 01-14-15
De: Marc Wortman
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One Summer
- America, 1927
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,592
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,051
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,034
One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country - a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge). It was the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things and came of age in a big, brawling manner. What a country. What a summer. And what a writer to bring it all so vividly alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why 1927?
- De Mark en 10-18-13
De: Bill Bryson
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Pan Am at War
- How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
- De: Mark Cotta Vaz, John H. Hill
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the "wings of democracy", spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international aviation. At the same time, it was clandestinely helping to fight America's wars.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing Presentation
- De JP en 04-01-20
De: Mark Cotta Vaz, y otros
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Who Was Amelia Earhart?
- De: Kate Boehm Jerome
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, listeners will find Amelia Earhart's life a fascinating story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who was Amelia
- De A. M. en 04-13-23
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The Arsenal of Democracy
- FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- De Kindle Customer en 12-01-14
De: A. J. Baime
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The Flight
- Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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On the morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known pilot named Charles Lindbergh waited to take off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island. He was determined to claim the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris - a contest that had already claimed six men's lives. Just 25 years old, Lindbergh had never before flown over water. Yet 33 hours later, his single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, touched down in Paris.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh
- De none en 12-08-18
De: Dan Hampton
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- De: Sam Kleiner
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This really happened.
- De Jason en 07-26-20
De: Sam Kleiner
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Bird Dream
- Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight
- De: Matt Higgins
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Human flight is one of the last great challenges on Earth. Not like how the Wright brothers flew, but how we fly in our dreams. This is the goal of the Wingsuit Landing Project: to soar through the sky at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour and to land without the aid of a parachute. This project is the creation of 37-year-old Jeb Corliss, Jr., a Southern Californian who seeks to emulate a mode of flight more like a flying squirrel than bird or plane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read
- De Jowly en 04-22-15
De: Matt Higgins
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Never Call Me a Hero
- A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
- De: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Timothy Orr
- Narrado por: Mike Ortego, Cassandra Campbell, Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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An extraordinary firsthand account of the Battle of Midway by one of its key participants, timed to the 75th anniversary: American dive-bomber pilot "Dusty" Kleiss helped sink three Japanese warships (including two aircraft carriers), received the Navy Cross, and is credited with playing a decisive individual role in determining the outcome of a battle that is considered a turning point in World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the story, disagree with the title.
- De STC en 08-21-17
De: N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, y otros
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Double Ace
- The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
- De: Robert Coram
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia, with an oversize personality used dogged determination to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. First capturing national attention during World War II, Scott, a West Point graduate, flew missions in China alongside the legendary "Flying Tigers", where his reckless courage and victories against the enemy made headlines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tiger Fan
- De Robert M. en 12-23-17
De: Robert Coram