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| Taking to the Sky: The History of Flight | |
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| The Earliest Aviators | |
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| "If Man Were Meant to Fly ..." | |
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| Did Icarus Beat Orville and Wilbur? | |
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| Not So Mythical | |
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| For the Birds | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci, Aviation Pioneer | |
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| Leonardo and His Flying Machines | |
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| The First Flight? | |
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| Aeronauts and the Balloon Revolution | |
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| A Lot of Hot Air | |
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| The Very First Aviators | |
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| The Race Is On! | |
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| Gliding Pioneers | |
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| Sir George Cayley | |
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| Otto Lilienthal | |
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| The Bishop's Boys: Wilbur and Orville Wright | |
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| The Bishop's Boys | |
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| The Race to Fly | |
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| Getting Off the Ground | |
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| Lilienthal, Chanute, and Langley | |
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| "Turning" Point | |
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| Ready for Takeoff | |
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| Proof Positive | |
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| Who Was Really First? | |
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| Gustave Whitehead | |
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| The Flight That Wasn't? | |
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| Barnstormers and Other Risk Takers | |
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| Harriet Quimby | |
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| Lincoln Beachey | |
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| The Wrights' Deadly Circus | |
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| Ralph Johnstone | |
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| The Vin Fiz Falls Flat | |
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| Defying Death | |
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| Beginning of the End | |
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| Flying by the Pound: Air Mail | |
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| Air Mail Pilots | |
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| The Birth of the Airlines | |
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| Great Flyers of the World Wars | |
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| The First Military Planes | |
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| World War I: Aviation's Fiery Trial | |
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| Rickenbacker: From Chauffeur to Fighter Ace | |
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| Rickenbacker Throws His "Hat in the Ring" | |
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| The Fastest Gun in the Sky | |
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| "Captain Eddie" Becomes Captain of Industry | |
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| The Dreaded Red Baron | |
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| From White-Knuckle Flyer to Red Baron | |
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| The End of the Red Baron | |
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| World War II: The Planes That Won the War | |
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| The "Flying Fortress": The B-17 Bomber | |
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| The B-29 "Superfortress" Bomber | |
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| Wild Mustangs: The P-51 Fighter Plane and Chuck Yeager | |
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| The X-1 | |
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| The P-51 Lives On | |
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| Lindbergh, Earhart, and the Rise of the Airlines | |
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| Charles Lindbergh, the Reluctant Hero | |
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| Lucky Lindy | |
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| Lindbergh the Daredevil | |
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| The "Flying Fool" | |
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| Flying Into History | |
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| Amelia Earhart Flies Into Immortality | |
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| "Lady Lindy" | |
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| Taking the Long Way | |
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| First Sign of Trouble | |
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| Theories and Conspiracies | |
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| The Airlines Reap the Benefits | |
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| Cessna, Piper, and the Emergence of Sport Flying | |
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| Sport Flying: Safer Than Ever | |
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| The Planes That Clyde Built | |
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| The Self-Taught Pilot | |
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| The Beloved Cessna | |
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| Bill Piper Puts Pilots on Top | |
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| From Oil Man to Air Man | |
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| You Take the High Wing, and I'll Take the Low Wing | |
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| When "Hogs" Fly | |
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| Oshkosh: The Sport Pilot's Rite of Passage | |
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| The Thrill of Flight | |
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| How Airplanes Fly, Part 1: The Parts of a Plane | |
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| Putting Names to the Pieces | |
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| The Powerplant | |
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| The Engine | |
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| The Propeller | |
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| The Cowling | |
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| The Plane Has a Body | |
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| Putting Wings on It | |
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| The Ailerons | |
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| The Flaps | |
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| The Empen-What? | |
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| The Horizontal Stabilizer | |
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| The Vertical Stabilizer | |
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| The Rudder | |
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| We're Rolling Now | |
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| Tricycle Gear | |
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| Conventional Gear | |
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| Retractable Gear | |
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| How Airplanes Fly, Part 2: The Aerodynamics of Flight | |
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| Pivot Points: Pitch, Roll, and Yaw | |
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| The Four Forces | |
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| Lift: The Gift of Newton and Bernoulli | |
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| For Every Action | |
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| Pressure | |
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| Lift Has Its Limits | |
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| The Angle of Attack | |
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| Carry That Weight | |
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| What a Drag | |
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| Parasite Drag | |
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| Induced Drag | |
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| Thrust: The Driving Force | |
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| Jet-Powered Thrust | |
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| Making All the Moves | |
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| In Control | |
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| Turn, Turn, Turn | |
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| Soaring on Silent Wings: Gliding | |
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| The Glider and the Plane | |
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| Thin Is In | |
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| Nice Pair of Wingtips | |
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| Wheels Can Be a Drag | |
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| Taking Off | |
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| The Glider's "Engine" | |
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| Thermal Power | |
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| Flying the Range | |
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| Landing the Glider | |
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| Gliding Conditions | |
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| In the Cockpit | |
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| How Much Will It Cost? | |
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| For Nonpilots: Getting Started | |
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| For Power Pilots: Making the Transition | |
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| How Do Helicopters Fly? | |
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| Igor Sikorsky's Wild Ride | |
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| Taming the Wild Rotor | |
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| The Dynamics of Helicopter Flight | |
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| Spinning Into Flight | |
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| Putting a Whole New Twist on It | |
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| Going Places | |
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| The Swash Plate Assembly | |
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| Going Forward | |
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| When the Fan Stops Turning | |
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| Amazing Future | |
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| How Much Will It Cost? | |
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| Up, Up, and Away: Hot-Air Balloons | |
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| Ballooning: It's a Gas! | |
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| The Air That You Heat | |
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| The Envelope, Please | |
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| A Lesson from Archimedes | |
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| Liftoff! | |
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| Blowin' in the Wind | |
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| The Plan | |
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| As Different as Anabatic and Katabatic | |
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| The Thrill of the Chase | |
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| Champagne and Propane | |
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| Imagination and Technology | |
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| What Will It Cost? | |
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| Hybrids, Oddities, and Curiosities | |
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| Giant Gasbags: Blimps and Airships | |
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| Anatomy of a Blimp | |
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| The Takeoff and the Landing | |
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| The Goodyear Mystique | |
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| An Odd Hybrid | |
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| The Free-Spinning Rotor | |
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| The Next-Generation Gyroplane | |
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| Harrier Jump Jet: Airplane or Helicopter? | |
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| Floating Around the World | |
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| How the Hybrid Works | |
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| In the Cockpit | |
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| Getting Off the Ground: Becoming an Airplane Pilot | |
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| What Does It Cost to Become a Sport Pilot? | |
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| The Medical Certificate | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| Winning Your Wings: Instruction | |
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| Additional Training Options | |
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| Study Aids and Video Programs | |
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| FAA Written Exam and FAA Flight Test | |
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| Buying Into Sport Flying | |
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| Navigation: Getting from Here to There Without Street Signs | |
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| Drawing a Map | |
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| The Chart | |
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| On the Grid: Latitude and Longitude | |
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| What's So Great About Great Circles? | |
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| When North Is Not Truly North | |
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| Dead Reckoning: Safer Than It Sounds | |
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| Airspeed and Groundspeed | |
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| Steering the Course | |
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| The Radio: All Navigation, All the Time | |
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| So You Think You're Lost: Getting Back on Course | |
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| From Takeoff to Landing | |
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| Preflight: Keeping It Safe | |
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| The Once-Over | |
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| Inspecting the Powerplant | |
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| Getting a Move On | |
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| Taxi! | |
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| Liftoff! | |
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| On the Radio: Working with Air Traffic Control | |
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| Collision Avoidance: Keeping Your Head on a Swivel | |
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| Coming Back to Earth | |
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| It's Easier Than It Seems--and Harder | |
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| Cloud Dancing: Air Shows and Aerobatics | |
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| No Business Like (Air)Show Business | |
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| What Are Aerobatics? | |
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| Turning Flying on Its Head | |
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| Putting a Spin on It | |
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| Turning the Circle on Edge | |
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| On a Roll | |
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| Hammering the Point Home | |
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| An Intense "Headache" | |
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| Of Aerobatics and "Comfort Bags" | |
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| "G" Whiz! | |
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| That Green Feeling | |
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| What Does It Cost to Learn Aerobatics? | |
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| Meeting the Challenges to the Perfect Flight | |
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| Talking About the Weather | |
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| What Makes the Weather? | |
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| The Coriolis Effect | |
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| Reading the Clouds | |
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| A Cloud Is Born | |
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| To Name a Cloud | |
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| Turbulence: Rocking and Rolling | |
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| Severe Weather: Thunderstorms and Tornadoes | |
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| Thunderstorms | |
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| Tornadoes | |
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| Weather Charts | |
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| The Visible Atmosphere | |
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| Mirages | |
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| Halos, Sun Dogs, and Sun Pillars | |
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| Rainbows | |
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| Coronas and Glories | |
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| The Green Flash | |
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| Overcoming the Body's Limitations | |
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| How the Atmosphere Stacks Up | |
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| A Lot of Pressure | |
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| A Little Pressure | |
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| When Air's Not There | |
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| It's Not Easy Being Green | |
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| Fear of Flying | |
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| Emergencies in the Air | |
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| The Rare Emergency | |
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| Learning from the Past | |
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| When the Engine Stops | |
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| Icy Wings | |
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| Microbursts | |
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| "Captain, the Passengers Are Revolting" | |
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| Payne Stewart's Last Flight: Explosive Decompression | |
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| John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Final Flight | |
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| Still Another Kennedy Tragedy | |
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| The Last Few Hours | |
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| The Last Few Miles | |
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| The Graveyard Spiral | |
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| All Signs Urged Caution | |
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| Inexperience | |
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| Pressure | |
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| Challenging Weather Conditions | |
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| Personal and Professional Stress | |
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| Physical Discomfort | |
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| Route | |
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| No Contact with Air-Traffic Controllers | |
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| Dangerous Thinking | |
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| The Folly of Night VFR | |
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| The Deceptive Sense of Balance | |
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| The Inner Ear | |
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| Disorientation | |
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| The Future of Aviation | |
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| Human Wings | |
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| Paul MacCready | |
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| Daedalus and Icarus Redux | |
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| Burt Rutan | |
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| Skunking the Competition | |
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| Around the World on One Tank of Gas | |
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| Jetting Into the Future | |
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| A Seat in the Cockpit | |
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| Returning to Flying's Roots | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Glossary of Radio Communications | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| World Wide Web Resources | |
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| Index | |