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| Dedication | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Cover | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Classics | |
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| High Flight | |
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| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
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| An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | |
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| The War in the Air | |
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| To Poets and Airmen | |
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| Two Poems of Flight-Sleep | |
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| The Firebombing | |
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| The Liberator Explodes | |
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| First Snow on an Airfield | |
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| P-51 | |
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| Return | |
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| The Pilot in the Jungle | |
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| Visibility Zero | |
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| Darius Greene and His Flying-Machine | |
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| Flight: Solitude, Freedom, Beauty, Mystery, Meaning, and Motivation | |
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| Wings of My Silver Plane | |
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| A Distant Thunder | |
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| Those Who Fly | |
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| Free | |
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| A Dance Through the Sky | |
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| Why I Fly | |
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| Gift | |
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| On Top | |
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| Sunrise Flight | |
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| The Surpassing Way of the Sky | |
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| Evening Flight | |
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| U2 | |
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| Feeling Compassionate | |
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| Dawn | |
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| Escape! | |
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| Pilots | |
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| Charisma, Personality, and Leadership | |
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| Because I Fly | |
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| To Pilot | |
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| No Stalling | |
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| To All Aircrew | |
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| The Aviator Man | |
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| To a Pilot's Wife | |
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| The Man in the Cabin | |
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| The Old Helmet | |
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| Cloud Dreamers | |
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| The Aviator | |
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| "Come and Fly" | |
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| Ode to My Hero | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Buckaroo | |
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| The Last Bouquet | |
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| Listen, Sister! | |
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| Pilots' Relationship with Their Aircraft | |
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| A Platform and a Passion | |
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| The Seat | |
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| To All Pilots | |
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| The More True Love | |
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| Training and Solo | |
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| The First Time | |
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| First Solo Flight | |
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| The Days That We Have Flown | |
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| Night Solo, Georgia | |
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| Tilly | |
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| Her First Solo | |
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| Lesson Six is Done | |
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| Grounded | |
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| Because You Have Flown | |
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| Empty Tanks | |
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| Religion/Prayer | |
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| The Air Force Hymn | |
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| An Airman's Blessing | |
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| An Airman's Hymn | |
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| The Air Force Psalm | |
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| Seventh Heaven | |
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| Military Service | |
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| Fighters | |
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| Fighter Pilot | |
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| For Don Morris: a T-28 pilot KIA, May 1970 | |
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| A Fighter Pilot's Friend | |
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| The Flying Dutchman | |
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| To Live to Fly | |
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| How Close Formation? | |
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| The Searcher | |
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| Last of the Breed... "An Old Head" | |
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| When the Mustangs Came | |
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| March 10, 1966 | |
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| Phantom | |
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| Sweeping Squadrons | |
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| What Is a Fighter Pilot? | |
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| The Fighter Pilot--a Tribute | |
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| Bombers | |
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| Ode to a Bombardier | |
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| Today I Rode A Legend | |
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| Anamnesis of a Bombardier: My Father, Sleepwandering From the War | |
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| Tribute to the Queen | |
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| The Liberator | |
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| Gaining Altitude | |
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| War | |
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| And I Look Down | |
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| The Return | |
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| When It's Over | |
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| The Wingmen from Takhli | |
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| Precision Guided Munitions--Fourteen Second Flight to Dispossession | |
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| War Stories | |
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| Soaring | |
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| The Voice | |
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| Goal | |
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| Gems of Wisdom | |
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| Sky Fever | |
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| Soaring Soliloquy | |
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| A Place To Play | |
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| Dreams | |
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| Parallels | |
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| It's Easy to Forget | |
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| The Glider Pilot's Lament | |
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| My Thermal | |
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| Absurd Possibilities | |
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| Will I Ever Know | |
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| The Sad Sack | |
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| The Myriad Scenes of Soaring | |
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| Soaring Verse | |
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| For Children | |
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| To a Pilot's Son | |
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| A Little Boy's Dream | |
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| Dog Fight | |
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| Why I Want to Be a Pilot | |
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| Wings to Fly | |
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| First Things First | |
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| The Broken Model | |
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| Silly Old Baboon | |
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| The Physical Sky | |
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| Downburst | |
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| Praying a Stall Won't Spin Us | |
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| Van Gogh Sky | |
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| Rotor Winds | |
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| Thermal | |
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| Viewed From Another Angle | |
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| Winter High | |
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| Vapor Trails--1 | |
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| Small Planes and Dark Clouds | |
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| The Cloud | |
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| Sky Fever | |
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| The Beam | |
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| Those Who Make It Happen | |
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| The Eagles and Black Nights | |
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| The Forgotten Man | |
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| For the Guys on the Ground | |
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| Just Another Flying Day | |
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| The Line Mechanic | |
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| The Nameless Legion | |
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| The Parable of Joe | |
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| Historical Feats of Wrights, Lindbergh, and Earhart | |
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| Wright Field, 1944: The Ready Room | |
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| Old Pilots in the Crowd at Kitty Hawk | |
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| We | |
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| Lindbergh Flies Alone | |
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| Lindbergh | |
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| A Faithless Generation Asked a Sign | |
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| A Chantey for Celestial Vikings | |
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| The Hour | |
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| Amelia | |
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| Pushing the Envelope | |
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| Flight Test | |
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| Test Pilot | |
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| What Is a Test Pilot? | |
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| Test Pilot | |
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| 840 by Accident | |
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| Astronauts and Space | |
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| The Leap | |
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| To a Husband Who Must Seek the Stars | |
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| "Mountain" | |
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| A Nation Cried | |
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| Air Racing | |
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| Race Gear | |
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| Reno Races | |
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| Air Race | |
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| The Bendix | |
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| Death by Flying | |
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| The Troop Who Rode One In | |
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| To the Man I Never Met | |
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| To Have Been | |
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| From a Pilot | |
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| To a Pilot's Widow | |
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| For Dawes, on Takeoff | |
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| The Choice | |
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| The Lady Let Him Fly | |
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| Celestial Flight | |
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| Flying West | |
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| Last Flight | |
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| The Path We Choose | |
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| Death of a Flyer | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Nick | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Stand By | |
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| Listen Quietly | |
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| Buzzing in a Biplane | |
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| Westbound Seven-Four | |
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| Dead Reckoning | |
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| Reunion | |
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| Memory Patrol | |