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Airplane Flying Handbook
This audiobook contains chapters 1 through 10 from the Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A. Study of the handbook should include the PDF …
A Deep Water Voyage
Narrative of a fascinating long distance journey by sail that charts a deep water voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta. Stevenson…
By Way of Cape Horn
Author Paul Eve Stevenson tells the tale of his journey around Cape Horn from New York to San Francisco in the mid-19th century aboard a tal…
The Story of the Pony Express
The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly popul…
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …
George and Robert Stephenson
George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive,…
All Afloat
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt …
Airplane Flying Handbook
The Airplane Flying Handbook serves as a comprehensive guide for aspiring pilots, focusing on the essential skills and knowledge required fo…
How It Flies
In these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the author has told the story of the Ships of the Air. He has explained t…
The Sinking of the Titanic
The Sinking of the Titanic by Logan Marshall offers a meticulous account of one of history's most infamous maritime disasters. Drawing from …
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad
Story of the planning, construction, and early operating of the Trans-continental railroad. There is coverage of the early proposals that be…
Airplane Flying Handbook
The Airplane Flying Handbook serves as a comprehensive guide for aspiring pilots, focusing on the essential skills and knowledge required fo…
When Railroads Were New
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
An Explorer in the Air Service
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are …
The Cycle Industry
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…
The Curtiss Aviation Book
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American Trophy for the first pre-announced and officially witnessed ai…
Report of the Airship ''Hindenburg'' Accident Investigation
“Oh my!”-Herbert O. Morrison, WLS News, ChicagoThursday, 6 May, 1937: It is early evening at a remote airport in central New Jersey. It’s st…
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report
In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type to fly in Earth orbit and successfully completed 27 missions over more than two de…
The Road
"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…