Aviation History

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    • A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,095 ratings
    • Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....

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    • Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,274 ratings
    • Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight....

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    • A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
    • By: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,142 ratings
    • From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....

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    • How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311 ratings
    • Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky....

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    • The US Air Force in Korea, 1950-53
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • In addition to the aerial combat over MiG Alley, this title covers the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, including the failed strategic bombing campaign and the escalating nuclear threat. Incorporating first-hand accounts from those involved, both US and Soviet....

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    • The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
    • By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Brilliantly researched and vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of duty and brotherhood and humanizes the most consequential event of the 20th century, which still casts a shadow a century later....

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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: Rich Orlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,603 ratings
    • In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood....

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    • Memoir of a US Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
    • By: James Joyce
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and he went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey “Slicks” and Huey “Gunships”....

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    • An Explanation of the Art of Flying
    • By: Wolfgang Langewiesche
    • Narrated by: Jason Leikam
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continuously in print for 33 years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why....

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    • Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
    • By: Joe Sutter
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 753 ratings
    • 747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies" - the Boeing 747 - as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the 20th century....

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    • Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
    • By: Alexander Rose
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 22 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg....

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    • Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine
    • By: Ed Macy
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside one of the world's most dangerous war machines....

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    • An Accident Investigator's Fight for Safe Skies
    • By: David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people....

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    • A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI
    • By: Arthur Gould Lee
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • This account of the Great War puts you right in the action - from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps....

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    • American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51
    • By: Bill Yenne
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the 20th century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked....

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    • Vietnam War - Helicopter Gunships
    • By: Fred Allen
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • SCROLL DOWN TO SEE VIDEO OF A VIETNAM HELICOPTER GUNSHIP IN LIVE COMBAT Experience intense combat from the Crew Chief/Door Gunner’s seat in a ...

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    • The Untold Story of Automation on QF72
    • By: Kevin Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Brett Cousins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Former US Navy Top Gun Kevin Sullivan, captain of the ill-fated Perth-bound QF72, breaks his silence to give a gripping account of how a rogue computer went 'psycho', causing the Airbus A330 he was piloting to pitch down, nose first, towards the Indian Ocean—twice....

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    • By: Paul Lally
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It’s December 8, 1941…The day after Pearl Harbor…The Nazis have the A-bomb…We don’t. Washington D.C. and Manhattan disappear beneath ...

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,983 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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