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His Majesty's airship [sound recording] : the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine / by Gwynne, S. C.(Samuel C.),1953-author.; Boulton, Nicholas,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Nicholas Boulton."The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. R101 was not just the largest aircraft ever to have flown and the product of the world's most advanced engineering--she was also the lynchpin of an imperial British scheme to link by air the far-flung areas of its empire from Australia to India, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and Singapore. No one had ever conceived of anything like this. R101 captivated the world. There was just one problem: beyond the hype and technological wonders, these big, steel-framed, hydrogen-filled airships were a dangerously bad idea. Gwynne's chronicle features a cast of remarkable--and often tragically flawed--characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction; Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair; and Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft in 1919--eight years before Lindbergh's famous flight--but who devolved into drink and ruin. These historical figures--and the ship they built, flew, and crashed--come together in a grand tale that details the rocky road to commercial aviation written by one of the best popular historians writing today"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, Baron, 1875-1930.; R101 (Airship); Air travel; Aircraft accidents; Airships;
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Kit and Kaboodle fly the skies / by Portice, Michelle.; Mortimer, Mitch.;
Soar with Kit and Kaboodle as they take their first plane ride! children can help the duo by finding items for their journey in six hidden pictures puzzles.Ages 4-7.Guided reading level: I.Lexile measure: 440L.LSC
Subjects: Kit (Fictitious character from Portice); Kaboodle (Fictitious character from Portice); Cats; Mice; Airplanes; Air travel;
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The day the world came to town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland / by DeFede, Jim,author.;
Christopher Award
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.; Air travel; Aeronautics, Commercial;
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Playboy pilot / by Ward, Penelope,author.; Keeland, Vi,author.;
Money or love. Which would you choose? Kendall needed to go far away to think it through. She strikes up a heated conversation with Carter in the airport lounge. She thought she'd never see him again. Surprise! He was the pilot of her flight. He gives her tickets, and she follows him around the world to exotic places. A part of Kendall wanted to be the one to finally ground the playboy pilot.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Air pilots; Voyages and travels; Man-woman relationships;
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12 best trips [videorecording] / by Maxa, Rudy.; Questar, Inc.; Reader's Digest Association.;
The Loire Valley -- Barcelona -- Greek Islands -- China: Shanghai -- New Zealand North Island -- India -- Buenos Aires -- Istanbul -- South Africa: Cape Town -- Tahiti -- Thailand: The Golden Triangle -- Oahu & Kauai.Host, Rudy Maxa.From the tango parlors of Buenos Aires, to the bazaars of Istanbul to the island paradise of Tahiti, Rudy Maxa's twelve 'must see' places have captivated travelers for centuries. Experience the vibrant cultures, colorful surroundings, lifestyles, and some of the world's most natural beauty.E.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Travelogues (Motion pictures); Voyages and travels.;
© c2013., Questar,
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The story of flight : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum / by Rinard, Judith E.; national air;
Milestones in the development of flight illustrated from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. Includes early airplanes, war planes, space travel, international space station and future flight.
Subjects: National Air and Space Museum.; Flight; Aeronautics; Astronautics;
© c2002., Firefly Books,
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If I built a car / by Van Dusen, Chris.;
Jack describes the kind of car he would build--one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Automobiles; Inventions; Imagination;
© c2005., Dutton Children's Books,
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How lucky : a novel / by Leitch, Will,author.;
Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He's got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy--despite the fact that he's suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined to his home, Daniel spends the hours he's not online communicating with irate air travelers observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he's almost sure he sees her being kidnapped.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; People with disabilities; Kidnapping;
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The window seat : notes from a life in motion / by Forna, Aminatta,author.;
"Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, "The Window Seat," Forna reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In "Obama and the Renaissance Generation," she documents how, despite the narrative of Obama's exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In "The Last Vet," time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a meditation on what a society's treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In "Crossroads," she examines race in America from an African perspective, in "Power Walking" she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman's body, and in "The Watch" she explores the raptures of sleep and sleeplessness the world over. Deeply meditative and written with a wry humor, The Window Seat confirms that Forna is a vital voice in international letters"--
Subjects: Essays.; Forna, Aminatta.;
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Up in the air [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bateman, Jason.; Clifford, Jeffrey.; Clooney, George.; Dubiecki, Daniel.; Elliott, Sam,1944-; Farmiga, Vera.; Kendrick, Anna.; Kent, Rolfe.; Kim, Walter.Up in the air.Videorecording.; Lynskey, Melanie.; Morton, Amy.; Reitman, Ivan.; Reitman, Jason,1977-; Simmons, J. K.; Turner, Sheldon.; Cold Springs Pictures (Firm); DW Studios (Firm); Montecito Picture Company.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Rickshaw Productions (Firm); Right of Way Films (Firm);
Director of photography, Eric Steelberg ; editor, Dana E. Glauberman ; music, Rolfe Kent.George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, J. K. Simmons, Sam Elliott.Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen ([1.85:1]) presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Kim, Walter.; Brothers and sisters; Comedy films.; Downsizing of organizations; Feature films.; Frequent flyer programs; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Severance pay; Specialists; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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