Smith, Patrick
Summary: For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the popular website www.askthepilot.com, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7 SMIDe Bellaigue, Christopher
Summary: "A new generation of travelers are eager to see innovation that will alleviate their guilt about flying, and they want to know where the industry is, how seriously they're taking climate change, and what the future looks like. This is the story of the search for a way to fly green"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 DE BKrantz, Laura
Summary: "How likely is it that humans aren't alone in the universe? Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings and alien encounters abound-and some (like recent accounts from U.S. Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 KRASmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 629.13 SMISummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.70951 FALO'Callaghan, Timothy J.
Summary: A chronicle of the development of Ford aviation, based upon the discovery of a Flivver airplane built in 1945 as well as the discovery of the LaCroix papers which documents Ford Motor Company's efforts in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Proctor Publications, LLC. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 OCARose, Alexander
Summary: "Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7092 ROSSchiavo, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.124 SCHSlader, Erik
Summary: Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018DeFede, Jim
Summary: Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem DefedeVerhovek, Sam Howe.
Summary: Covers the race between the United States and Great Britain to develop the first viable commercial jet plane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 VERGleim, Irvin N.
Summary: The Gleim Commercial Pilot FAA Knowledge Test book provides you with the easiest, fastest, and least-expensive means to prepare for and pass the FAA knowledge test. Gleim Knowledge Transfer Outlines at the beginning of each study unit concisely present the relevant material needed to answer questions selected from previously-released FAA test banks, as well as questions that have been developed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gleim Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1325 GLESummary: When the unimaginable happened on September 11, 2001, 14 fighter planes took to the skies to carry out one urgent order: go to Condition Air Traffic Zero - clear the skies of all non-military aircraft. In less than three hours, those 14 planes were able to ensure the safe landings of the approximately 4,826 commercial and private planes that were in the air as the horrific events of 9/11...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CLESummary: Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ONLReid, Peter
Summary: "A beautiful, four-color book that showcases an epic LEGO universe. Full of advanced models guaranteed to inspire, as well as simpler models with building instructions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oreilly & Associates Inc 2013
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Summary: Award-winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described here were not merely flights of fancy dreamed up by space enthusiasts, but actual missions planned by leading aeronautical engineers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 PYLSasek, M. (Miroslav)
Summary: Presents a history of Cape Canaveral and the American space program, discussing the space missions that were launched from there, the various types of rockets used, and the successful landing of two astronauts on the Moon in 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.47 SASDe Waard, E. John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brompton 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.4 DEWDahl, Candy
Summary: Tiny Broadwick, a teeny, uneducated mill girl, had big dreams of soaring above the earth, out of poverty, and above expectations. She became the first woman to parachute from an airplane, and her idea for the rip cord paved the way for pilots to safely escape in-flight emergencies. This thrilling biography shows how Tiny's determination, courage, adventurousness, and joy lifted her up to stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1309 MENDrozd, Anne
Summary: "Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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Summary: In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018