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Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.
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David Fisher has written more than 40 books, including the number-one bestseller Gracie: A Love Story and The Umpire Strikes Back. William Garvey, a contributing editor of Flying magazine, writes regularly for Smithsonian Air and Space and other aviation publications. Clint Willis is series editor of the Adrenaline books.
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This collection of 16 excerpts from writings about manned flight includes well-known works by Saint-Exup?ry, Michael Collins, Martin Amis, Tom Wolfe, and Charles Lindbergh as well as lesser-known pieces such as a first-person account by a 14-year old pilot who flew across the United States in a Piper Cub. Most have to do with surviving a dramatic test or ordeal of some kind. Roald Dahl flew against German bombers in the battle of Malta; William Rankin ejected from his jet and fell through a thunderstorm. Others, like William Lishman on hang gliding with birds, lean more toward the mystical or spiritual side of flying. Many libraries will already have some of the books from which these pieces were excerpted, but this collection does bring together shorter and less-taxing introductions to the authors. Recommended for public libraries where demand exists.
-Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, KS
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, KS
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1560252510
- ISBN 13 9781560252511
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages360
- EditorFisher David, Garvey William
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