| Title | Happy landings / [edited by] Max J. Herzberg, Merrill P. Paine, and Austin M. Works.
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| Published | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1942.
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| Description | v, 321 pages : plates, diagrams, 22 cm
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Delayed jump / Wolfgang Langewiesche -- The thrill of flying / Selden Rodman -- Five miles over Washington / William H. Wenstrom -- Night formation flight / Beirne J. Lay, Jr. -- Test pilot / Francis Vivian Drake -- Ground instruction / A. Fleming MacLiesh -- from The airmen's alphabet / W.H. Auden -- The anatomy of an airplane / Ernest K. Gann -- Flying cadet / George Sessions Perry -- High flight / John Magee, Jr. -- First combats / Richard Hillary -- Hunter and hunted, five miles up / Wendell Pendleton as told to Edwin P. Hicks -- "Pilots, man your planes!" / Foster Hailey -- The challenge to America / Alexander P. de Seversky -- Bomber to Britain / James L.H. Peck -- Adventure in the desert / Antoine de Saint ExupeĊy -- Flight over Africa / Beryl Markham -- Return to earth / Jimmy Collins -- from North to the Orient: Dark ; Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- It's up to Skip / Hurd Barrett -- Mr. Chips ignores an air raid / James Hilton -- Newark at five-twenty / Leland Jamieson -- Tailing tactics / ARch Whitehouse -- The coming air age / Igor Ivan Sikorsky as told to Frederick C. Painton.
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| Summary Note | Summary: An anthology of the literature of aviation.
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| Subjects | Aeronautics in literature.
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| Other Authors | Herzberg, Max J. (Max John), 1886-1958.
Paine, Merrill P.
Works, Austin M.
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| LC Card Number | 42-50722 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: TL 554 H252 1942
CA-1902952: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69147] |
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