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Author : Theodore Bellak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015071166642
Author : Derek Piggott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Gliding and soaring
ISBN : OCLC:9269884
Author : Rebecca Loncraine
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1447273877
'A soaring gift of a book' Owen Sheers 'Remarkable' Mark Vanhoenacker, author of Skyfaring 'Stunning . . . a love letter to nature' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love In her mid-thirties Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. In that engineless plane, soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again. And so Rebecca travelled from the Black Mountains in Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas to chase her new-found passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear. Skybound is the story of that obsession and of Rebecca's incredible journey from the ground, into the sky and back again. Taking in the history of unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in some of the world's most dangerous and dramatic locations, this is a nature memoir with a unique perspective; it is about the land we know and the sky we know so little of, it is about memory and self-discovery. Just as she finished writing Skybound Rebecca became ill again. She died in September 2016. And yet, Skybound is still a book about learning to live again: deeply moving, thrilling and euphoric, this is a book for anyone who has ever looked up and wanted to take flight.
Author : L. D. Cross
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781927051849
They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold, snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and line of sight. They landed on makeshift runways, glaciers, muskeg, tundra and glassy lakes. Comrades of the wilderness, they were Canada's early bush pilots. L.D. Cross brings us the incredible stories of the brave and enterprising pilots who rolled back the boundaries of western and northern Canada, delivering mail, medicine, miners and all the supplies needed by frontier settlements. Flying such planes as Curtiss, Bellanca, de Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman, Stinson and Vickers, they were the off-roaders of aviation, venturing where no others dared to go. Climb into the cockpit with these pioneering pilots for an exciting trip into Canadian aviation history.
Author : Derek Piggott
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : 0713616407
Understanding Gliding has become one of the classic works on the subject of gliding. For those who would like to improve their performance as pilots it is essential to know how and why a glider flies. This book demonstrates that the theory is, in fact, quite simple. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Derek Piggott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1129827241
Author : Bernard Eckey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gliding and soaring
ISBN : 0980734908
Covers all sources of energy for soaring but it also deals with weather analysis, flight preparation, mental aspects, safety matters, technical issues and competitive flying. It is a first class training aid to guide pilots from local soaring to advanced cross-country flying and beyond.
Author : Carle Conway
Publisher : Soaring Society of America, Incorporated
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015004560655
Author : ARTHUR W. G. J. ORD-HUME
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : 1840338350
Author : Lewin B. Barringer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637693520
Author : Bill Scull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987186653
Author : Lewin Bennitt Barringer,Karl O. LANGE,Ernest SCHWEIZER,Paul SCHWEIZER (Staatsarchivar, Zurich.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:556984763
Author : Judy Leden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 0752808745
There is not a hang glider of paraglider in the world who wouldn't acknowledge Judy's skills, her class and her courage. Judy will take you to rare and secret places you could not reach alone, and envoke a world still full of adventure if you know where to look for it.
Author : Lloyd M. Bungey,British Columbia Soaring Society
Publisher : Surrey, B.C. : British Columbia Soaring Society
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : 0969324014
Author : Derek Piggott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0713663529
This manual is intended for budding and improving glider pilots and as a resource for gliding instructors. It views the whole process from the perspective of a beginner tackling all the difficulties and concerns experienced by them head on, including the fundamentals of gliding, how to learn them and how they should be taught. It includes a new chapter on soaring.