Jack Knight S Brave Flight

Author : Jill Esbaum
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635925678

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Jack Knight's Brave Flight by Jill Esbaum Pdf

High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

Author : Anita Melva Anderson,Robert Elliott Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:5262156

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... Pilot Jack Knight by Anita Melva Anderson,Robert Elliott Johnson Pdf

Author : A. M. Anderson,R. E. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1479416576

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Pilot Jack Knight by A. M. Anderson,R. E. Johnson Pdf

Part of the American Adventure Series from the early 20th century, Pilot Jack Knight is about "the early days of flying and the pilots who gave wings to America."

Author : Roger D. Graham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476646831

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Fly By Knights by Roger D. Graham Pdf

By the time of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military had transitioned to jet aircraft. Yet leaders soon learned prop-driven planes could still play a role in counterinsurgency warfare. World War II-era Douglas B-26 light bombers proved effective in close air support and interdiction, beginning with Operation Farm Gate in 1961. Forty B-26s were remanufactured as improved A-26 attack aircraft, which destroyed hundreds of North Vietnamese supply vehicles on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1966-1969. The personal recollections of 37 pilots, navigators, maintenance and armament personnel, and family members, tell the harrowing story of B-26 and A-26 Air Commando Wing combat operations in Vietnam and Laos.

Author : Anita Daher
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554696192

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Flight From Bear Canyon by Anita Daher Pdf

In this sequel to Flight from Big Tangle, Kaylee is furious about being left to spend the summer with a girl her own age, Jaz, and Jaz's uncle, Jack. All she wants is time alone with her dog, Sausage. Things change quickly, though, when Jack is injured after his helicopter goes down near a group of grizzly bears. Kaylee and Jaz must team up to save him, and Kaylee finds herself once again at the controls of a plane.

Author : K. T. Webb
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539018733

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The Very Brave Knight by K. T. Webb Pdf

Max is a wimp. He doesn't have any friends and he doesn't care (no really). When he wakes up in a book, he discovers the importance of bravery, friendship, and treating others with respect (even if they don't do the same for you).

Author : Chris Hunt,Colin Walker
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780857900739

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William McGonagall by Chris Hunt,Colin Walker Pdf

William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections – Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagall's only play, Jack o' the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.

Author : Fiona Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351750080

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The Music of John Ireland by Fiona Richards Pdf

This title was first published in 2000. John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. The Music of John Ireland explores the expressive and extramusical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters which take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote.

Author : Jack Graybill
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480956414

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The Princess Kristin by Jack Graybill Pdf

The Princess Kristin A Tale of Live, Loyalty and High Adventure By: Jack Graybill The Wizard of Meisendorn-on-the-Rhein has died, leaving his only daughter with the secrets of his magic. As Kristin, the Wizard’s daughter, learns more, she becomes a hero to the town of Meisendorn, using her wits and talent to heal the sick and help the poor. Soon she meets the charming and noble Prince Friedrich and wins his heart. But their story doesn’t end there with happily ever after. The Prince and Princess face a series of daring adventures and vile villains: the Demons’ Tower, with its host of bandits and undead; the bloodthirsty army of the evil Dreltholst Veister; the cunning witch Hex-aba with her grotesque minions. And, of course, the most exciting adventure of all: the adventure of raising a family. The Princess Kristin is an epic of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and romance in which true love really does conquer all.

Author : Edward Eager
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 015202073X

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Knight's Castle by Edward Eager Pdf

Four children find a magic way to go back into the time of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood.

Author : Benjamin Rush Davenport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Utopias
ISBN : OSU:32435017623521

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"Uncle Sam's" Cabins by Benjamin Rush Davenport Pdf

Author : Alan Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781456899240

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Shooting the Sleaze by Alan Robinson Pdf

Shooting the Sleaze is a comic thriller that tingles the spine while tickling the funny-bone. It sets official state agencies at loggerheads with private sector counter-intelligence, each employing its own little band of killers. These frequently fall over each others feet. Meanwhile, someone is killing off reporters of the nations leading tabloid. Odd movements like The Poor Peoples Army and the Last of the Republicans are planning to blow away half of Londons famous landmarks. In addition, the countrys most savage uncaught serial killer, Jack the Stripper, is coming out of retirement with a bayonet and a license to kill. These join a glamorous columnist, a corrupt detective, a porn-loving Prime Minister, a former CIA hitman and many of the great and the good in a mad dance of comic violence that ends in a great bang and quite a bit of whimpering.

Author : Newark Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UIUC:30112083267960

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The Library News by Newark Public Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1944-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015080004818

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The Aeroplane by Anonim Pdf

Author : William McGonagall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:P103052003015

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Poetical Gems by William McGonagall Pdf