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On glorious wings : the best flying stories of the century

Coonts, Stephen, 1946- (Added Author).

A collection of stories and excerpts from world-renowned authors celebrating the airplane and aviation.

Book  - 2003
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  • ISBN: 0312877242
  • Physical Description 464 pages
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Forge".
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Stephen Coonts -- The balloon hoax / Edgar Allan Poe -- Five weeks in a balloon / Jules Verne -- The horror of the heights / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- Bill's first airplane ride (from Bill Bruce and the pioneer aviators) / Henry H. Arnold -- Learning to fly (from Winged victory) / V.M. Yeates -- All the dead pilots / William Faulkner -- The white feather ace (from G-8 and his battle aces) / Anonymous -- For want of a Fokker (from the Blue Max) / Jack D. Hunter -- Cleveland Airport, August 1932 (from Trophy for eagles) / Walter J. Boyne -- Wings over Khabarovsk / Louis L'Amour -- The raid (from the War lover) / John Hersey -- The milk run (from Tales of the South Pacific) / James A. Michener -- Chief White Halfoat (from Catch-22) / Joseph Heller -- Hell over Germany (from Bomber) / Len Deighton -- An hour to San Francisco (from the High and the mighty) / Ernest K. Gann -- Alone (from the Shepherd) / Frederick Forsyth -- LZ ambush (from the Delta) / Marshall Harrison -- Raid on Thud Ridge (from Rolling thunder) / Mark Berent -- Corey Ford buys the farm (from Flight of the Intruder) / Stephen Coonts -- Powder River MOA (from Sky masters) / Dale Brown -- Retaliation (from the War in 2020) / Ralph Peters -- Zero-g dogfight (from Storming Intrepid) / Payne Harrison.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 38.95