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1927. Olivia “Livy” West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race — a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii — she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator...
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"Reclaiming one of the most important moments in American aviation history, this incredible, untold story recounts the transcontinental air race of October 1919, which riveted a nation as the aviators pioneered the first coast-to-coast air route, despite much drama and tragedy."--
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English
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"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
"Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama...
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IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Cliff Secord, a.k.a. the Rocketeer, has been hired to fly an experimental aircraft in a transatlantic race from New York to Paris. His new employer, the brilliant inventor Professor Delton Nkosi, is desperate to win the coveted prize in the Great Race, no matter the cost. Among Cliff's main competitors are the top female aviator, Debbie Seville, and the ruthless German ace known as the Iron Baron... who is determined to win the prize for the Fatherland...
9) Plane pals
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
With the support of friends old and new, Dusty Crophopper reaches heights he never dreamed possible.
10) Disney Planes
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Series
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Publications International Ltd
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time when new airplanes traveled farther and faster but were also unreliable, fragile, and hampered by primitive air navigation equipment. The US Navy tried first, sending...
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Archetypal Images
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"Experience the exhilaration, ever-present danger, heart-breaking tragedy and ultimate triumph as twenty contestants fly from California to Ohio in the First Women's National Air Derby. Follow along as headline aviatrixes Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, Phoebe Omlie, Bobbi Trout and Louise Thaden race across the country during nine amazing days in the summer of 1929"--Container.
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Dk Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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With Disney Planes: The Essential Guide, readers are invited into the world of Disney's newest character: Dusty, a big-hearted, fast-flying crop duster who dreams of competing in the most exhilarating around-the-world air race in history. They'll also learn more about his mentor, a naval aviator named Skipper, and the defending champ of the race circuit, Ripslinger, who will stop at nothing to see Dusty fail. Packed with facts, character profiles,...
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Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"When world-famous air racer Dusty Crophopper learns that he may never race again, he must shift gears and become a firefighter. After joining forces with a fearless air attack team, Dusty gathers all his strength and courage to save a national park from a massive wildfire." --
17) Race to Hawaii
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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""Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time when new airplanes traveled farther and faster but were also unreliable, fragile, and hampered by primitive air navigation equipment. The US Navy tried first, sending...
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