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  1. Book ImageFull Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today

    Mark Gerchick

    "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?More

  2. Book ImageStraight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham

    Mary S. Lovell

    The New York Times bestseller: “Every page is filled with revelations, gossip and fascinating details about Markham.”—Diane Ackerman, The New York Times Book ReviewMore

  3. Book ImageWings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age

    Tom D. Crouch

    "A superb history of flying machines . . . the best one-volume analysis of the subject."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMore

  4. Book ImageThe Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

    Tom D. Crouch

    The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.More

  5. Book ImageA Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905

    Tom D. Crouch

    The story of a handful of talented American engineers and adventurers who labored to conquer gravity in a flying machine.More

  6. Book ImageLost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart

    Randall Brink

    "In this book, I deal only with the truth about Amelia Earhart's last flight, a truth withheld by our government because of a tenuous peace with Japan in the Pacific and concerns for the national security at home. . . . Those who knew the truth, and held it close, knew that Earhart and Noonan had survived. They believed it was their duty to hide the truth, and so they did."—from the IntroductionMore