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2) Fly with me
Author
Series
Wild Aces romances volume 1
Language
English
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Description
U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Noah Miller loves nothing more than flying hard and fast. When he meets a gorgeous and sassy woman while partying in Las Vegas, he immediately locks on to her. Jordan Callahan owns a thriving clothing boutique, but her love life is far less successful. One scorching weekend becomes an undeniable chemistry that they can’t leave in Vegas. But the long distance relationship and their different lives threaten to ground their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The X-wing pilots of the Rogue Squadron, headed by Wedge Antilles, have a new target-Coruscant, the center of the Empire. But before a full attack can be mounted, someone must infiltrate the Imperial stronghold for vital intelligence information, and risk betrayal and capture by a ruthless warlord called Iceheart-emperor now in all but name!
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Tyrant Ysanne Isard has seized control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta for a decidedly unhealthy purpose--to destabilize and annihilate the New Republic. Undermanned and without Alliance support, Rogue Squadron faces an overwhelmingly superior force--and nearly impossible task: to oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from the grip of a madman in a winner-take-all battle.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. X-wing volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Rebuilding the legendary Rogue Squadron, Wedge Antilles seeks out the most skilled and daring X-wing pilots, but when the group is ordered to assault the Imperial Black Moon, he fears that they may not survive the mission.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[©2006]
Language
English
Description
Hot shots. A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
Hot shots, part deux. A do-or-die mission to rescue U.S. hostages in the Mideast takes Topper Harley and his Hot Shots on an action-packed trail booby-trapped with spoofs of movie classics and filled with famous faces in hilarious...
8) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
9) Unmanned
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Witness some of the most celebrated dogfights in modern history as the pilots strap back in and recall their memories of these historic engagements including Guadalcanal, North Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, and more. The original pilots themselves narrate these battles, illuminating the capabilities and histories of these magnificent craft, the enemies they faced, and the realities of life as a fighter pilot."--Container.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fighter aircraft face off in some of the most intense battles in the history of warfare in this documentary television series. This season features first-hand accounts of the flying aces themselves, combined with rare archival footage and state-of-the-art CGI graphics. Each air battle is recreated in stunning detail, putting viewers in the cockpit, facing the enemy to relive 17 of modern history's greatest battles.
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Language
English
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Description
The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility...
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
With its revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the C-500 had become the freight airframe of choice. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.
Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France, killing the two pilots aboard. When French officials take over this highly public investigation, they call in the best there is: Frank 'Jammer' Davis. A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Davis is part of the NTSB's...
16) The nugget
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack. Flying...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard...
18) Porco Rosso
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Early 1930's era Italy, air pirates, bounty hunters, and high flyers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. After watching the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle he fought in rise to the heavens, his head turned into that of a pig. He now makes a living taking jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival, provides a constant challenge to the...
19) Wings
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I. Includes three featurettes.
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