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61) Unmanned
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recounts in graphic novel format the story of Manfred von Richthofen--better known as the Red Baron--from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of top fighter pilot and squadron commander Robin Olds--who arrived in Vietnam in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 348 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend--and those who survived showdowns earned the right to be called aces. But two men in particular rose to become something more. They became icons of aerial combat, in a heroic rivalry that inspired a weary nation to fight on. Richard 'Dick' Bong was the bashful, pink-faced farm boy from the Midwest. Thomas 'Tommy'...
Author
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
76 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Empire's dreaded Death Star, but the Imperial starfleet continues hunting the rebels throughout the galaxy. Luke Skywalker now seeks to support the Rebellion as an X-wing fighter. But as he flies with the pilots of the Red Squadron, Luke feels stirrings of the Force. And this farm boy turned fighter pilot begins to suspect that his destiny lies along a different path"--
67) The hunters
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004, c1958]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they've destroyed and harness the power of humanity's last hope: The Splitter, a colossal machaine designed to manufacture a bright new reality for them to infiltrate and corrupt."--Back cover.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives and to prove to America that courage...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color (with black and white sequences) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an experiment -- "to see if Blacks had the intellectual and physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." These pilots, trained in the "deep South," became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat aircraft during World War II for their country. They had to battle on 2 fronts: the Axis powers in Europe and North Africa, and the racism at home.
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