Author: Theodore BellakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Memoirs of Gliding and Soaring
Author: Theodore BellakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Flight Without Power
Author: Lewin Bennitt BarringerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gliders
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Joy of Soaring
Author: Carle ConwayPublisher: Soaring Society of America, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Skybound
Author: Rebecca LoncrainePublisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781447273875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'A soaring gift of a book' Owen Sheers 'Remarkable' Mark Vanhoenacker, author of Skyfaring 'Stunning . . . a love letter to nature' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love In her mid-thirties Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. In that engineless plane, soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again. And so Rebecca travelled from the Black Mountains in Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas to chase her new-found passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear. Skybound is the story of that obsession and of Rebecca's incredible journey from the ground, into the sky and back again. Taking in the history of unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in some of the world's most dangerous and dramatic locations, this is a nature memoir with a unique perspective; it is about the land we know and the sky we know so little of, it is about memory and self-discovery. Just as she finished writing Skybound Rebecca became ill again. She died in September 2016. And yet, Skybound is still a book about learning to live again: deeply moving, thrilling and euphoric, this is a book for anyone who has ever looked up and wanted to take flight.
Gliding
Author: Derek PiggottAdvanced Soaring Made Easy
Author: Bernard EckeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980734904
Category : Gliding and soaring
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Covers all sources of energy for soaring but it also deals with weather analysis, flight preparation, mental aspects, safety matters, technical issues and competitive flying. It is a first class training aid to guide pilots from local soaring to advanced cross-country flying and beyond.
Flight Without Power, The Art of Gliding and Soaring
Author: Lewin B. BarringerGliding and Soaring
Author: John Paul AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Danger and Poetry
Author: Joe KaramPublisher:
ISBN: 9780997355307
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
One man's discovery into soaring flight. An aviation memoir written for prospective and novice pilots as well as anyone who hasn't stopped dreaming and daring. Praised as "insightful" and "revealing" by Thomas L. Knauff, member of the United States Soaring Hall of Fame and glider pilot from the 1999 motion picture The Thomas Crown Affair.
In Love with Flying
Author: Kenneth W. FordPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979410406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has met along the way, people who impressed him with their passion for flying and who brought a special style to their love affair with flying. This book is for anyone of any age who is thinking about becoming a pilot, or is already one, or who just appreciates the romance of the air. It's more than a collection of anecdotes. Ford is a teacher, and here you will learn, in non-technical language, about the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the idiosyncrasies of "tail-dragger" airplanes, the art of landing in a crosswind, how pilots get from A to B, and more.