Flight - 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 Flight write by Christopher C. Kraft. This book was released on 2001. Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.
Return Flight
Return Flight - 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 Return Flight write by Jennifer Huang. This book was released on 2022-01-18. Return Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks “what name / do you crown yourself,” Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huang’s poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a “myth a mess of myself.” Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of “beating hearts / through objects passed down,” the poems travel through generations—among Taiwan, China, and America—cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather’s smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child’s bowl, a slap felt decades later—the result is a map of a present-day life, reflected through the past. Return Flight is a thrumming debut that teaches us how history harrows and heals, often with the same hand; how touch can mean “purple” and “blue” as much as it means intimacy; and how one might find a path toward joy not by leaving the past in the past, but by “[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.”
Free Flight
Free Flight - 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 Free Flight write by James Fallows. This book was released on 2008-11-05. Free Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel: NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years: in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the new environment of air travel.
Bride Flight
Bride Flight - 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 Bride Flight write by Marieke Van Der Pol. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Bride Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is 1953, and the last great transcontinental air race from London to Christchurch is about to begin, but even before the KLM plane has left the runway, it has already become famous as the 'bride flight'. Of its sixty emigrating passengers, many are brides-to-be flying out to join their fiancs on the other side of the world. Among them are Ada, Marjorie and Esther, each of them with their own reasons for wanting to leave behind the hardships of post-war life at home, and their own pasts. During the trip they meet Frank, a charismatic bachelor, who will come to have a dramatic influence on their lives, and who exerts a continued hold over each of the women as they follow their very different paths in New Zealand. It is only when they meet again, years later, at Frank's funeral, that the three women - now 'brides in black' - get to hear each other's stories for the first time and realize just how closely their lives have been bound together by what happened on the bride flight.
Fantastic Flight
Fantastic Flight - 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 Fantastic Flight write by John M. Collins. This book was released on 2004. Fantastic Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides instructions for creating twenty-five paper airplanes using single sheets of paper.
