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61) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 2
Formats
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xv, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When the nation's economy collapses and thousands of Americans turn against their own government, Patrick McLanahan must enlist the aid of his son and fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can.
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Description
"From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero: a (very cute) border collie. Val Eliot, a land girl working on an English farm during the war, finds herself in charge of protecting a rescued border...
64) Beast of burden
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a drug mule turns into an informant, he learns that his wife had been kidnapped by a cartel and must find a way to save her from the cockpit of his plane.
Author
Publisher
J. Murray
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the '20s and '30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King's Cup: Henshaw set his heart on it, developing a technique of racing which extracted the very maximum from his aircraft: firs the Comper Swift and then the DH Leopard Moth. Parallel with his search for speed was an obsession with making accurate landfalls, and he developed...
66) The blue Max
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1966.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
Publisher
Bob Hoover Project, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, colour with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"WWII veteran, prisoner of war, accomplished test pilot, pace plane for the Unlimited Reno races, air show pilot -- Bob Hoover is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of modern aerobatics. Jimmy Doolittle called him " ... the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived." Flying the feathered edge preserves the stories, the friendships, and the legacy that surrounds this man who quietly touched the trajectory of aviation's many developments...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1008 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1938, in a backwater corner of the South Pacific, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
70) Airplane!
Formats
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Description
Molly feels that everything in her life has changed when her father goes off to England to help wounded soldiers and her beloved aunt joins the Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Includes a section on women pilots in the armed services, and a project related to the story.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
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Description
Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness.
74) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
76) Act of violence
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 4
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Act of violence: Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street: Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A couple of bush pilots find themselves grounded in Seattle at the annual World's Fair. One thing leads to another, and they help an abandoned girl and make the acquaintance of a beautiful nurse.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF disc.
Description
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 twentieth century, these innovative daredevils not only wowed crowds, but also redefined the frontiers of powered flight. Lawrence Goldstone takes listeners inside the world of the...
80) Battle born
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 8
Formats
Description
A techno-thriller featuring flying ace Patrick McLanahan, who leads a squadron of B-1 bombers against China. It happens when the Chinese invade Korea, which has been unified by the South. By the author of The Tin Man.
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