Bogeys and Bandits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bogeys and Bandits write by Robert Gandt. This book was released on 1998. Bogeys and Bandits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A former Navy pilot takes readers on a thrilling ride in the FA-18 Hornet, weaving superb technological details of the plane with portraits of the day-to-day lives of very real people aspiring to fulfill a dream. photos.
China Clipper
China Clipper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China Clipper write by Robert Gandt. This book was released on 2010-10-01. China Clipper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible. To fully document the story he includes interviews with flying boat pioneers and a dynamic collection of photographs, charts, and cutaway illustrations.
Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel write by Robert Gandt. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life.” —Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, and South Africa arrived to help. They were a small group, fewer than 150. Many were World War II veterans; most of them knowingly violated their nations’ embargoes on the shipment of arms and aircraft to Israel. The airmen risked everything—their careers, citizenship, and lives—to fight for Israel. The saga of the volunteer airmen in Israel’s war of independence stands as one of the most stirring—and little-known—war stories of the past century.
On Language
On Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Language write by William Safire. This book was released on 1981. On Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes chapters on slang, jargon, and neologisms.
Skygods
Skygods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Skygods write by Robert Gandt. This book was released on 1999. Skygods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1966, Pan American Airways reached the zenith of its wealth & influence. Its pilots were lords of the sky; Skygods. Under aviation pioneer Juan Trippe's autocratic control, Pan Am bought jet airliners before its competitors & made record profits. It was the first U.S. airline to order the supersonic transport; it accepted reservations for the first service to the Moon. Then Pan American Airways fell to earth. In Skygods, Robert Gandt, a Pan Am pilot for 26 years, gives an inside account of the great airline's unprecedented demise. He interviewed hundreds of former Pan Am airmen & executives. He reveals how Pan Am's captains, in Navy-style uniforms, once commanded their ships like petty tyrants. They were the best & brightest in airline industry, but there were disturbing stories of captains who allowed stewardesses to land their aircraft, flew them at the wrong altitude & in the wrong direction & who tragically disappeared, often without a trace. All was not well either in the Pan Am Building, the massive landmark in New York where a succession of impulsive & short-sighted CEOs combined to preside over the demise of a great airline. Pan An bought a domestic airline it did not need; bought aircraft it did not need & operated half-empty planes on low-density routes. It sold the entire Pacific network for a bargain price & sold precious assets to meet its payrolls. And then came the Lockerbie tragedy. This is a fascinating account of what can go wrong with a pillar of strength of the U.S. industry, when its leaders lose their sense of direction & when their star employees-the Skygods-discover that they are mere mortals.
