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1) Born to fly
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In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
2) Lockout
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A passenger plane is electronically hijacked—and may be aimed at a target that could kill millions: “A wild ride through the night sky.” —Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course...
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course...
3) Stealing air
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Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
4) Nighthawk
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When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly race to recover the fallen technology, which carries a secret payload of exotic matter capable of triggering an Armageddon-level catastrophe.
6) Airborne
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"Heather Lawrence's long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn't supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she's witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living-but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately...
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"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--
1922. Wing walker Grace Lafferty is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team's worth against flashier competitors-- and earning a coveted Hollywood contract. Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of scars from the battlefield, joins her barnstorming team....
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Sun coast chronicles volume 1
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Young lawyer, Lynda Barrett decides she cannot afford to keep her beloved plane and, in the process of selling it to wealthy Jake Stevens, becomes the target for murder.
11) Man of war
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Eric Steele is the best of the best - an Alpha - an operative in a unit known simply as "the Program". A highly trained U.S. Special Forces soldier who spent his career fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele uses a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his targets. Steele is in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon stolen. When he and his colleagues investigate, it becomes clear that...
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After a CIA mission goes awry, U.S. Air Force intellignece officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier, a dead-end assignment. Russian aircraft begin penetrating friendly airspace along the border, and when an American F-22 collides with one of the interlopers, things go south fast. Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the crash site. Soon they're facing off with Spetsnaz commandos...