Books with title Sun flight

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy - "Zits" - who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer. The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to awaken in the body of an FBI agent during the civil-rights era. It's only the first stop. He continues through time to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then rides with an 1800s Indian tracker before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels, his refrain is: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans." When he returns to his own life, he is transformed by all he's seen.

In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a pilot for more than half of my life when I left my home in Detroit for the wild escapades that awaited me in Southeast Asia. Air America had been the pinnacle of my life and, had the trajectory remained steady, my world and my career should have gone onward and upward from that point. The intent of telling my story is to take the reader on an historical journey of a little-known place in time through my own personal account. Within the context of history, my narrative is not to be considered anything but my own experience. The ranks of Air America were comprised of a host of patriotic professionals who deserve a place of honor in the annals of history. However, many colorful characters wore the Air America wings, and inside the course of my narrative, the reader will be subjected to people and situations that cannot be filed neatly under anything resembling normal sanity. Most names, except those of a known or high-ranking or public nature, and those I wish to recognize for heroic performances, have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty alike.

Book 7 in The Orphans Series in no way slows down. This installment puts the phrase flight from hell into new light. There were other survivors, other warriors who were once civilians trying to make it just one more day. Follow a new group and see if there is hope, and a reason to think that this one day might end. Will they survive, can they outsmart the Turned, can they continue on! Remember things are always darkest just before a single ray of light breaks through!If you enjoy books by Mark Tufo with Zombie Fallout, or Nicholas Sansbury Smith & Extinction Cycle than this is a series for you. The dead are walking, they can rip your car door or arm off, they are stronger than imaginable with more surprises down the road filled with the dead in the streets.

Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.Flight. Loneliness. Fear. Danger. Courage. Charles Lindbergh considered all these things and more when he set out for Paris on the morning of May 20, 1927, with only two compasses and the stars for his guides. Experience all the drama of Lindbergh's history-making flight with startling intimacy as you travel along with the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, and follow the courage and endurance of one man who dared to make his dream come true."(A) glorious re-creation of an epic adventure."--Publishers Weekly"Brings new life to one of the stories of the century."--Kirkus Reviews

In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a pilot for more than half of my life when I left my home in Detroit for the wild escapades that awaited me in Southeast Asia. Air America had been the pinnacle of my life and, had the trajectory remained steady, my world and my career should have gone onward and upward from that point. The intent of telling my story is to take the reader on an historical journey of a little-known place in time through my own personal account. Within the context of history, my narrative is not to be considered anything but my own experience. The ranks of Air America were comprised of a host of patriotic professionals who deserve a place of honor in the annals of history. However, many colorful characters wore the Air America wings, and inside the course of my narrative, the reader will be subjected to people and situations that cannot be filed neatly under anything resembling normal sanity. Most names, except those of a known or high-ranking or public nature, and those I wish to recognize for heroic performances, have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty alike.

Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Flight. Loneliness. Fear. Danger. Courage. Charles Lindbergh considered all these things and more when he set out for Paris on the morning of May 20, 1927, with only two compasses and the stars for his guides. Experience all the drama of Lindbergh's history-making flight with startling intimacy as you travel along with the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, and follow the courage and endurance of one man who dared to make his dream come true.

Austria 1945. After losing his family, Jakob shelters with Herr Engel in a rural stable, where they hide the precious Lipizzanner stallions they know Hitler wants to steal. When a German officer comes looking for Jakob and finds the horses, Jakob and his guardian know they must get the stallions to safety, but the only way is straight through Nazi territory. Joined by Kizzy, an orphan Roma girl, the three must guide the horses across the perilous Austrian mountains. Will they reach safety? What will be waiting for them on the other side?

A tragic explosion results in the death of over 200 airplane passengers. Was the explosion caused by pilot error, or was it a conspiracy? Pilot Cathalene (Lena) Penn, accused by the airline of being a smuggler, died in the tragedy, and her wife, Jessica is desperate to clear Lena’s good name. When Jessica travels to Belgium, her wife’s home away from home, she discovers diamonds, a second family, and a mystery…Sometimes, choosing between what is safe and what is right isn’t easy, and running away is always an option…Flight!

From the beaches at Kitty Hawk, Keegan Crawford tinkers inside his rundown scooter shop. A teenager who barely finished high school, Keegan runs the business and looks after his ailing father.While Keegan laments his all-around bad luck, he resents his sister Katharine, who left the family during its hardest time to attend college in Ohio. Keegan's only hobby, and only friend, is his invention—an incredible flying scooter. As business slows and the Crawfords struggle to make ends meet, Keegan labors frantically in the back of the shop, desperate to finish his creation and make the amazing scooter fly. But his limited aeronautical knowledge, mounting financial pressures and continued family turmoil threaten his success. Like everything else in Keegan's life, it seems like his invention is destined to fail.Until the Brothers arrive.Wilbur and Orville Wright, the great inventors of the airplane, fly into Kitty Hawk to lend the Crawfords a hand. With their exhaustive attention to detail, unmatched technical expertise, good humor and impeccable style, the famous Wright Brothers have the best chance of anyone in history to set Keegan on the right course and help the Crawford siblings reconcile.If they don't drive him crazy first, the Wright Brothers might just be able to help Keegan Crawford take flight…

This pop-up book of aircraft will take readers up, up and away, with fascinating facts and interactive fun on every page. Lift the flaps and pull the tabs to trace the history of flight. Open the gatefold pages to reveal a 65-cm-long pop-up airport. Packed with maps, diagrams and ingenious mechanisms, this is the ultimate book for aspiring aviators!