Books with author Robert Caley

This is the story of the man who virtually single-handedly open up the world to commercial flight. Teeming with adventure, international intrigue, and financial manipulations, the book reveals how a sky-struck young man of immense ambition and vision took a single-engined seaplane carrying mail 90 miles from Key West to Havana and expanded the operation into the vast world-wide airline that at one time considered itself the "chosen instrunment" of the State Department abroard - and was so condidered by official Washington.

Juan Trippe, the first and last aviation tycoon in history, learned to fly in the rickety machines of World War I, when he sky appealed only to daredevils, and his life expectancy could have been counted, probably, in days. He was as star struck as any of the other young aviators of the day, but he was also a Yale educated banker’s son who believed the world was crying out for air travel but didn’t yet know it. In 1927 Pan American had only one route, 90 miles from Key West to Havana. Within eight years at great risk and against fantastic odds Pan Am had crossed the Pacific, and after that Trippe thrust his tentacles into all of Latin America, into Europe, Africa, Australia--even into China. He was a nerveless, sometimes vicious competitor who bought up or drove out of business anyone who got in his way—President Roosevelt once referred to him as a “Yale educated gangster” until he had built Pan Am into the mightiest airline in the world.

Updated September 2018 with RPO totals for each model for each year. Buying an XLR or XLR-V? Selling an XLR or XLR-V? Own an XLR or XLR-V? This book is for you. The hand-built Cadillac XLR and high performance XLR-V were extremely low production two-seat convertibles built at the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Corvette factory. This well-researched reference book tells you the GM paint code and RPO order code of every color of Reatta ever made, how many were built in that color, and the interior and exterior color combinations for all six years of production. Big enough to put in the back pocket of your jeans when you go look at the XLR of your dreams, many of the facts in this book are compiled from primary source GM documents - stop searching the internet hoping to find accurate XLR information! Includes easy-to-read tables and charts and provides instruction on how to locate and decode your Service Parts Identification label. Also contains discussion and facts that might surprise you: There were 102 units of the 2004 Neiman Marcus Ultra Violet Limited Edition XLR but the numbered sill plates indicate 101. Why? Sources indicate 228 units of Light Platinum XLRs built in 2007 and 187 units in 2008. Why are those totals incorrect? If you removed the engine appearance cover on your 2008 XLR-V, whose name would you find? What XLR and XLR-V paint colors were not shared with Corvette? Yearly totals for 2007-09 Mary Kay Pink Pearl XLRs are known but are not derived from a paint RPO. How are they derived? Be sure to check out other automotive fact books by Robert Casey: Corvette Colors (a five book series), Buick Reatta, Cadillac Allanté, Fiero, 1982-1992 Firebird, and the upcoming SSR and Holden GTO.

How to make and play games in an above and In-ground swimming pool. I show you how easy and inexpensive it is to make a water-ball, goal post, bases, net and basket for both above and in ground pools. The games in this book were written with all combination of age groups in mind. I have add suggestions and options to the games and races to make them equally challenging for the individual or teams as possible. This book will stimulate your imagination and even turn your ever day use and parties in to a splashing success.

Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky. New combat strategies emerged with these changing technologies and dramatically impacted such events as the First World War. This comprehensive volume examines the various crafts that have shifted the front lines of war to previously unimagined heights and depths and the tactics that have accompanied these developments.

It's the year 2091. Sixteen-year-old-Ryan Chase lives in the Pacific Northwest with his scientist parents, Drs. Ryan and Elise, and little sister, Faith Ann. Four years prior, an asteroid smashed into the planet causing untold death and destruction before a protective force field--designed by Ryan's father--could be deployed. In the aftermath, oppressive government authorities reassign the Chase family to the Perhentian Archipelago, located far away in Southeast Asia, where Ryan's marine biologist mother continues to monitor the effects of radiation on the ocean.While on a dangerous solo deep dive, Ryan is "liquefied"--literally sucked through time by the Order of Saint Michael, guardians of the Perhentian Archipelago, who are desperately seeking Dr. Chase or his force-field research in order to prevent a new (or is it the same?) asteroid cataclysm. Unsure if he is in the past or the future, the injured Ryan awakens from his ordeal and converses with a caretaker at the monks' sanctuary who turns out to be so much more. After secretly overhearing some of the monks' plans, the frightened and confused teen decides to escape with the help of Martin the cook, a simple and trusting soul, and flee into the woods. There, Ryan stumbles upon a group of teenage bullies known as "Lo-Tekkers"--sons of those who enforce a strict low technology code on this tropical island. The Lo-Tekkers are just beginning to torture some local boys for violating the code when a mysterious Asian girl frees them with her "illegal" Hi-Tek bow and arrows. Suddenly, a young French woman dressed in medieval warrior garb appears out of nowhere and assists the archer in routing the bullies. Thus begins Ryan’s training as a knight and the adventure that will require courage and grace, as well as the strength of angels and saints, because demonic powers are on the rise and a massive asteroid looms over the horizon.

When 16-year-old Ryan Chase, son of a renowned astrophysicist, is accidentally transported through time by Catholic monks seeking to avert an asteroid disaster by utilizing his father's force-field research, the teen must choose between staying or returning to his own time, all but ensuring the destruction of the world. It’s the year 2091. Sixteen-year-old Ryan Chase lives in the Pacific Northwest with his scientist parents, Drs. Ryan and Elise, and little sister, Faith Ann. Four years prior, an asteroid struck the planet causing untold death and destruction before a protective force field--designed by Ryan's father--could be deployed. In the aftermath, oppressive government authorities reassign the Chase family to the Perhentian Archipelago, located far away in Southeast Asia, where Ryan's marine biologist mother continues to monitor the effects of radiation on the ocean. While on a dangerous solo deep dive, Ryan is "liquefied"--literally sucked through time by the Order of Saint Michael, guardians of the Perhentian Archipelago, who are desperately seeking Ryan's father or his force-field research to prevent a new (or is it the same?) asteroid cataclysm. Unsure if he is in the past or the future, the injured Ryan awakens from his ordeal and converses with a caretaker at the monks' sanctuary who turns out to be so much more. After secretly overhearing some of the monks' plans, the frightened and confused teen decides to escape with the help of Martin the cook, a simple and trusting soul, and flee into the woods. There, Ryan stumbles upon a group of teenage bullies known as "Lo-Tekkers"--sons of those who enforce a strict low technology code on this tropical island. The Lo-Tekkers are just beginning to torture some local boys for violating the code when a mysterious Asian girl frees them with her "illegal" Hi-Tek bow and arrows. Suddenly, a young French woman dressed in medieval warrior garb appears out of nowhere and assists the archer in routing the bullies. Thus begins Ryan’s training as a knight and the adventure that will require courage and grace as well as the strength of angels and saints, because demonic powers are on the rise and a massive asteroid looms over the horizon.

Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the world’s bodies of water. While ship design has become increasingly sophisticated with time, everything including the luxury liners, warships, and sailboats of today owe much to the watercraft that facilitated travel, trade, and war among ancient cultures. This detailed volume examines the development of the different types of water vehicles and the design of related structures, including docks and quays.