Flights Of No Return

Download or read book Flights of No Return written by Steven A. Ruffin and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happened to be the world's foremost aviator--lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and disappeared. - The glamorous son of a beloved fallen president took off on a hazy summer night in 1999 and plunged himself and two others into the Atlantic Ocean. - A US Navy blimp landed one Sunday morning in 1942 in the middle of a city street in California with no one aboard. Some of these "non-returns" occurred because of errors in judgment; others were intentional, and some resulted from causes still unknown. Get the full, meticulous account of the fascinating people involved in these flights, the mistakes they made, and the ways in which their "flight of no return" affected the world. Pilot and aviation writer Steven A. Ruffin covers the entire 230-year span of manned flight in all types of aircraft through war and peace. Balloons, blimps, biplanes, jets, and spaceships have all suffered mishaps over the years. Don't miss the mystery, adventure, intrigue, and a sprinkling of the supernatural and extraterrestrial in Flights of No Return.

Download or read book Flights of No Return written by Steven A. Ruffin and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happened to be the world's foremost aviator--lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and disappeared. - The glamorous son of a beloved fallen president took off on a hazy summer night in 1999 and plunged himself and two others into the Atlantic Ocean. - A US Navy blimp landed one Sunday morning in 1942 in the middle of a city street in California with no one aboard. Some of these "non-returns" occurred because of errors in judgment; others were intentional, and some resulted from causes still unknown. Get the full, meticulous account of the fascinating people involved in these flights, the mistakes they made, and the ways in which their "flight of no return" affected the world. Pilot and aviation writer Steven A. Ruffin covers the entire 230-year span of manned flight in all types of aircraft through war and peace. Balloons, blimps, biplanes, jets, and spaceships have all suffered mishaps over the years. Don't miss the mystery, adventure, intrigue, and a sprinkling of the supernatural and extraterrestrial in Flights of No Return.

Download or read book No Return written by George Applegate and published by Clay Tablet Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has ever returned from Mars. Travel to and from the colony—a private venture mounted by a consortium of Muslim investors—has been embargoed since the Martian Fungus began decimating Earth’s oceans. Written off by its investors, the Mars colony struggles to survive on its own. The ecological disaster on Earth has caused famine and triggered political upheavals, including the reemergence of an Islamic caliphate. The colony, whose residents are overwhelmingly Muslim, has fallen under sharia law. Eric Issa, the colony’s infidel Safety Officer, investigates a bizarre death and uncovers a high-level conspiracy that may explain how the Martian organism contaminated Earth. He must quickly yet quietly identify the killer, piece together the conspiracy, and save his own skin, all the while protecting the dead man’s orphaned daughter who may hold the key to controlling the Martian Fungus on Earth. A short story.

Download or read book No Return Ticket written by Nicholas Rety and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a boys firsthand account of the Second World War siege of Budapest and the trials of its aftermath, transitioning to an English private school and tough days in London on the way to medical school. Emerging as a urological surgeon, the journey continues to far-flung places, always keeping the human focus. A life lived to the full, it finds the author taking up flying at age fifty-six, something to rekindle the flying daydreams of the armchair pilot.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.