Aviation History

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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 3,265 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 10,128 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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    • 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 179 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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    • 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 9,049 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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    • By: Dan Hampton
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret "Wild Weasel" missions during the Vietnam War....

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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 311 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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    • 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 1,310 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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    • 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 169 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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    • 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 751 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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    • 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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    • 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 104 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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    • 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: Norman Hanson
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Brought to life in vivid, visceral detail, Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviators' memoirs of the war; an awe-inspiring and thrilling account of war in the air....

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    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 516 ratings
    • Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career....

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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 14,476 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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    • The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
    • By: James Scott
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,547 ratings
    • The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan’s merchant fleet and destroying its economy....

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    • The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster
    • By: Jon Ziomek, Caroline Hopkins - contributor
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors....

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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 62 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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    • The U.S. Army Air Forces Against Germany in World War II
    • By: Jay A. Stout
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • In this dramatic story of World War II, Jay A. Stout describes how the US built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force....

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