The Golden Flight
Title | The Golden Flight PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1996-09-02 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780752806181 |
It seems,at last,that the Red Squirrels have found the perfect haven in Ourland,free from natural predators.But when Chip invents a bark-rush calculator,Marguerite the seeker begins to realise that without predators,the island will soon be overrun with more squirrels than it can support.Ex-Kingz-Mate Thizle seems to hold a secret solution,but cannot divulge it.The puzzling words of the young squirrels' chant may contain a prophecy.And the youngsters are becoming strangely restless. Then the old Grey Lord Malachite and the Grey hordes attack the reds in a bid to return to the old ways.Only by taking great risks and some heartwrenching losses,and with the power of the Woodstock on their side,can the reds hope to survive.
Flight of the Golden Harpy
Title | Flight of the Golden Harpy PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Klaus |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-06-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 076533755X |
Kari, a young woman, returns to the jungle planet of Dora after ten years in Earth's schools determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the harpies, a feral species with the appearance half-bird, half-human. The human colonists believe harpies are dangerous animals, which are known to steal women. The creatures are hunted like wild game, their wings considered rare trophies. But Kari distrusts these rumors. When she was attacked by a monster in the jungle as a child, a male harpy with rare golden coloring rescued her. Constant hunting by men has driven the harpies to the brink of extinction. Is Kari's savior, the elegant golden harpy, is still alive? If so, how long can he and his flock survive the ravages of mankind? Susan Klaus's Flight of the Golden Harpy is an imaginative and romantic fantasy novel that questions what it means to be human.
FLIGHT 777 & GOLDEN FLIGHT TO DUBAI
Title | FLIGHT 777 & GOLDEN FLIGHT TO DUBAI PDF eBook |
Author | MVJAY |
Publisher | PartridgeIndia |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1482834227 |
1. Presence of Aliens and UFOs has always fascinated the human race. The human race is keen in knowing whether outside human race there are any other race and if so whether it would get details about them. The myth, that disappearance of flight was due to aliens leads to nice fiction. 2. Day dreaming makes anyone happy only. Especially when you are extraordinarily lucky in your dream you enjoy it!
The Golden Age of Air Travel
Title | The Golden Age of Air Travel PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Hadaway |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2013-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0747813477 |
For much of the twentieth century travel by air was a luxury available only to the wealthy, and accordingly the airlines – Pan Am, BOAC, TWA, BEA and many others – offered premium services that connected far-flung parts of the world with con trails of glamour. This book looks back at the golden age, from the 1920s to the 1970s, when well-appointed airliners whisked the rich and famous around the world on holiday and on business. It evokes the chink of champagne glasses, the aroma of expensive cigars and the roar of early jet engines: the experience of air travel before package holidays and budget airlines changed flying forever. The various types of aircraft, the routes and the airports, as well as the changes undergone by the industry, are all explored here and illustrated by fascinating historical material.
A Flight of Golden Wings
Title | A Flight of Golden Wings PDF eBook |
Author | Beryl Matthews |
Publisher | Allison & Busby |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 074901833X |
September, 1938. Britain is at war and Ruth Aspinall, a gifted pilot, is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary, an organisation of civilian pilots who ferry aircraft to wherever they're needed. Meanwhile over in America, siblings Jack and Lucy Nelson, both experienced pilots themselves, are keen to join too. After a perilous journey by sea, Jack is soon having his first experience of the London Blitz before being posted to White Waltham, where he quite literally bumps into Ruth and romance soon blossoms. On D-Day, Jack is sent to France to deliver a Spitfire, but he is declared missing in action after his plane fails to arrive. Heartbroken, Ruth must accept that the love of her life may never return . . .
Flight of Gold
Title | Flight of Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin McGregor |
Publisher | In-Depth Editions, LLC |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Aircraft accidents |
ISBN | 9780988977242 |
On March 12, 1948, Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a DC-4 with a crew of six, carrying twenty-four merchant marines from Shanghai to New York, crashed high up on Alaska's Mt. Sanford. Air reconnaissance flights spotted the remains of the plane, but the site was too remote for recovery teams. Rumors that the plane had been transporting gold and diamonds enticed treasure hunters to the mountain, but life threatening conditions kept them from reaching "Alaska's Legendary Gold Wreck." Flight of Gold is the first-person account of commercial airline pilot and mountain climber Kevin McGregor, who with pilot Marc Millican, attempted to solve the mystery of the reputed treasure. After four years of near-obsessive efforts, they made two startling discoveries: One led them into leading-edge forensics and the other gave substance to the treasure rumor.
China's Wings
Title | China's Wings PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Crouch |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 034553235X |
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.