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  1. True North

    Author: Brenda Niall

    Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twenties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and event

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    • Published on 2012
    • 291 pages

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  2. Lawrence James Wackett Aircraft Pioneer

    Author: Lawrence James Wackett

    Autobiography - WWI pilot, aircraft designer (including the Wackett Trainer) - the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation at Fishermen's Bend grew under Wackett's direction to reach a peak employment of 10,000 during the war.

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    • Published on 1972
    • 241 pages

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  3. The Sound of Wings

    Author: Mary S Lovell

    When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States.  Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding and adventurous.

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    • Published on 1989
    • 435 pages

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  4. Australian Aviator

    Author: Norman Brearley & Ted Mayman

    From WWI pilot to founding Australia's first commercial airline, WA Airways, carrying mail and passengers, searching for Kingsford-Smith and Ulm, looking for Lasseter's Lost Reef to joining the RAAF in WWII.

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    • Published on 1971
    • 204 pages

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  5. My God! It's a Woman

    Author: Nancy Bird and Nancy Bird Walton

    Foreword by Gaby Kennard.  The autobiography of Nancy Bird who obtained her commercial pilot's licence at 19, barnstormed with other pilots, flew the Outback, travelled to Europe and American and founded the Australian Women Pilots' Association.

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    • Published on 1990
    • 216 pages

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  6. Lindbergh

    Author: A. Scott Berg

    Biography of Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974), An aviation record breaker, idolised by Americans, his personal life was as challenging as his flying, from the kidnapping of his child, to his support for the Nazis during WWII, to his death from cancer.

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    • Published on 1998
    • 628 pages

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  7. The Flying Nun

    Author: Anne Maree Jensen and Jeanne Ryckmans

    Sister Anne Maree Jensen's baseball cap, riding boots and a Cessna aeroplane are not usually part of the image that comes to mind when we think of nuns - but then, Sister Anne Maree Jensen's 'Aerial Ministry' is not a conventional calling either. For the past ten years, Sister Anne Maree has been flying over some of the most remote parts of outback southwest Queensland, bringing companionship to the women who live in her bush parish.  Her parish includes more than 250,000 square kilometres of sh

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    • Published on 1999
    • 248 pages

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  8. Beyond the Sky

    Author: James Vicars

    In Australia in the mid 1920s, flight was still new, dangerous and glamorous - and aviators were all men. That was until a petite and quietly-spoken 49 year-old mother of three, Millicent Bryant, took her first flight, igniting a passion that led her to become the first woman in the Commonwealth outside Britain to gain a pilot's licence. While newspapers all over Australia began following her progress in the 'race', few outside her family knew the determination and depth of personality that took

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    • Published on 2020
    • 272 pages

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  9. Naked Pilot

    Author: David Beaty

    Discusses human errors which impact the safety of air travel, including fatigue, communication, education, stress, boredom, conformity, and illusion

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    • Published on 1995
    • 310 pages

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  10. Darker Shades of Blue

    Author: Tony Kern

    This volume takes a controversial look at pilots who attempt to undermine aviation by ignoring the rules. It covers the dangers caused by the rogue aviator and offers a solution to the problem.

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    • Published on 1999
    • 248 pages

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  11. Air Disaster

    Author: Macarthur Job

    This in-depth book analyses 18 individual air crashes and provides a detailed and descriptive text for each incident. Specially commissioned illustrations and artwork by noted Australian aviation artist, Matthew Tesch, fill this dynamic collection.  77 maps and diagrams.

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    • Published on 1994
    • 183 pages

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  12. Air Disaster

    Author: Macarthur Job

    Covers the period from 1977-1991.  14 aircraft disasters analysed.

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    • Published on 1996
    • 218 pages

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  13. Air Disaster

    Author: Macarthur Job

    You are there on the flight deck as ten major airline accidents unfold in concise and spellbinding detail. The fascinating, ongoing story of how international passenger jet flying has developed through tragedy to become safer than walking down the street! Why these airliners crashed and the valuable lessons learned are fully revealed in this informative book. 

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    • Published on 1994
    • 155 pages

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  14. They Called it Pilot Error

    Author: Robert L. Cohn

    Aircraft and the three-dimensional environment in which they operate are not user-friendly for human beings. As a result, developing and maintaining the proficiencies necessary to safely and efficiently fly an airplane or helicopter are difficult, time-consuming, and costly. Flight training has barely progressed beyond the basics, perhaps because of a typical pilot's limited time and money. Training remains a sort of crash course in not crashing, with almost exclusive concentration on physically

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    • Published on 1994
    • 330 pages

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  15. Handling In-flight Emergencies

    Author: Jerry A. Eichenberger

    Most in-flight emergencies can be safely resolved if the pilot has the proper training and mental attitude. This information-packed manual for private and recreational pilots, flight instructors, and students describes a variety of procedures you can use to pre-empt or successfully cope with almost any emergency situation. Emphasizing the importance of preflight preparation and awareness of changing flight conditions, author Jerry A. Eichenberger, a commercial pilot and flight instructor, explai

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    • Published on 1995
    • 201 pages

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  16. Avoiding Common Pilot Errors

    Author: John Stewart

    This important book brings an air traffic controller's perspective to the mistakes pilots commonly make in controlled airspace. Veteran controller John Stewart has spent years observing pilots display their lack of education, lack of flight preparation, inability to communicate effectively, ignorance of resistance to regulations, and other dangerous flaws. This book is his attempt to help pilots fly more safely in controlled airspace and to introduce them to new and coming air traffic control te

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    • Published on 1989
    • 226 pages

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  17. Flying Ultralights

    Author: Doug Chipman

    Flying Ultralights contains a series of 19 exercises, laid out in 31 lessons, from ab-initio to formation flying & navigation.

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    • Published on 1991
    • 103 pages

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  18. Better Takeoffs and Landings

    Author: Michael C. Love

    Focusing on the many aspects of flight that can affect takeoffs and landings, author and experienced pilot Michael C. Love provides a step-by-step review of proper pre-flight activities. Using examples to illustrate the specific techniques employed during normal, short field, soft field, and crosswind takeoffs and landings, Love covers vital information that any pilot can use for improving technique.

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    • Published on 1995
    • 233 pages

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  19. Redefining Airmanship

    Author: Tony Kern

    Here, for the first time, is a systematic model of professional airmanship, for all pockets of the aviation community. With this book as a guide, you too will develop the "right stuff" for today's complex world of flight. Step by step, system by system, the book shows you how to: Use history's greatest flyers as role models--and follow in their footsteps Define standards and measurements for success Understand specific aspects of airmanship, using case studies and lessons learned Handle peer pre

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    • Published on 1997
    • 463 pages

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  20. Mike Becker's Helicopter Handbook

    Author: Michael Becker

    This handbook will take you through every manoeuvre and flight sequence required in your helicopter training, and used in your ongoing career.  Written in a very easy to understand language coupled with over 500 illustrations, diagrams and photographs.  Mike is a CFI on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia.

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    • Published on 1999
    • 420 pages

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  21. Turbulence

    Author: Peter F. Lester

    Turbulence, by Peter F. Lester, is the most comprehensive, understandable book available on turbulence as it pertains to aviation. It will help you recognize the conditions that cause turbulence, so the effects can be avoided or minimized. This book provides answers to questions such as: What is turbulence? What does it look like? How long does it last? What causes it? Where is it found? What are its indicators? What are its typical dimensions and intensities?

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    • Published on 1994
    • 280 pages

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  22. The Wonders of the Weather

    Author: Bob Crowder

    Lavishly illustrated guide to the processes governing our weather and climate. Discusses various phenomena such as cyclones, thunderstorms and tornadoes, and issues such as the greenhouse effect ozone depletion, floods, droughts and climate change, and addresses subjects such as sky colour, the effect of the moon on weather, and high and low pressures. Has a strong Australian focus, and is aimed at students and amateur meteorologist, as well as non-specialists with an interest in the weather. In

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    • Published on 1995
    • 270 pages

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  23. The Tombstone Imperative

    Author: Andrew Weir

    'We regulate by counting tombstones' US FEDERAL AVIATION OFFICIAL This book is a thorough and meticulously researched investigation into the important issue of passenger aircraft safety. It concludes that not enough is being done to improve flight safety and that improvements are only made when enough passengers die in a crash to force the issues into the public eye. It is a fallacy to believe that flying is the safest way to travel. The statistics have been spun to present the most favourable p

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    • Published on 1999
    • 337 pages

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  24. Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus

    Author: Ernest K. Gann

    A treasure of stories about these adventurous men and their planes in an age of flight infinitely more exciting than the supersonic era.

    in Other

    • Published on 1976
    • 224 pages

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  25. Absolute Altitude

    Author: Martin Buckley

    In this exciting and unusual travel book, Martin Buckley journeys through many places, from Benbecula to Rarotonga, from Sudan to New Zealand, from Corsica to Tucson, Arizona - but the country he explores is a romantic and dangerous place that seduces all who travel there - the sky. Three years ago, Martin Buckley gained a pilot's licence, and set off to 'hitch-hike' by plane around the world. His encounters with a range of sometimes eccentric and always obsessive pilots led to aid flights throu

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    • Published on 2004
    • 304 pages

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