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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 3,272 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 10,135 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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    • 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 9,064 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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    • 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 314 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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    • 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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    • 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 171 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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    • 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 603 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,546 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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    • 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 14,521 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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    • 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 515 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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    • 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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    • 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 352nd “Blue-Nosed Bastards” in World War II
    • By: Lt. Col. Jay A. Stout
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 458 ratings
    • Jay A. Stout breaks new ground in World War II history with this gripping account of one of the war’s most highly decorated American fighter groups....

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    • Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • The 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club' was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the US Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam and this book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975....

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    • America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
    • By: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 664 ratings
    • Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller....

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