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"On the heels of his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling debut novel, The Returned, Jason Mott delivers a spellbinding tale of love and sacrifice. On an ordinary day, at an air show like that in any small town across the country, a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators. After the dust clears, a thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath a pocket of rubble with her best friend, Wash. He is injured and bleeding, and...
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith...
3) Air show!
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Ellie and her brother Gill go to an air show with their father.
6) Wings
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A small fighter jet gets the chance of a lifetime to compete in an international airshow championship. Determined to win, the jet signs up with a demanding trainer, but the reigning champ wants to make sure the jet won't win the tournament--or even compete.
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"We're dropping you off on one of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, for a week of crucial training before deployment to the war in Iraq in Super Carrier. Then, hang on for dear life as you fly along on dangerous missions with amazingly skilled Congo Bush Pilots, and get a pilot's-eye-view of aerobatics at Airventure Oshkosh in Inside: Air Show. Finally come aboard for a flight like no other: a 15,000-mile adventure...
10) Air racers
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"Narrated by Paul Walker of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise, the film takes moviegoers into Northern Nevada's Valley of Speed to experience, from inside the cockpit, the intensity and high-speed thrills of a sports event like no other, captured for the very first time for the giant screen. Air racing dates back to 1909, just six years after the Wright Brothers' inaugural flight. An intrepid young American named Glenn Curtiss won the very first...
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"It's 1927--the late days of the barnstorming era, when pilots competed with each other by performing deadlier and more wondrous feats. Injured pilot Hawk E. Baron is back from the frontlines of the war. Still a young man, he's an adventurer who lives his life traveling from town to town in his plane entertaining folks--most of whom have never seen a car, let alone a plane. His world changes when he meets Tillie, a young woman who shares his passion...
12) Air show jets
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"Discover how air shows and demo teams have evolved, what dangers pilots face during every maneuver, how pilots achieve their closely synchronized flight maneuvers, and what it takes to be an air show jet pilot"--P. [4] of cover.
13) The aviatrix
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"Saint Louis, 1923. The golden age of flight has just begun, and pilot Mattie McAdams refuses to cede the skies to cocky flyboys. She longs to perform daring stunts in her family's flying circus, but the men in her life stand in her way--including the show's star performer, Leo Ward. They can wring their hands all they want; Mattie won't stay grounded for long. In the Great War, Leo Ward watched his best friend and Mattie's twin brother, Alfred, perish...
16) Love in the air
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Pan loves to fly; it's pilots she doesn't trust. When Alex, fresh from military service and a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, lands in the middle of her vintage aircraft museum, Pan wants no part of his flyboy demeanor.
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