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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good condition. French flaps. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 339 pages. With contributions from many others like Roald Dahl, Tom Wolfe and Charles Lindbergh. First hand accounts of life-and-death adventure. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. INSIDE, CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, ROALD DAHL, MARTIN AMIS, ERNEST K. GANN. MANY MORE.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit. …