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    Early Balloons and Airships: The History and Legacy of Dirigibles Before the Invention of Airplanes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min
    The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the "problem of human flight" already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work, and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight.In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet. The Wright Flyer I had just made history, and minutes later it would be permanently damaged after wind gusts tipped it over; it would never fly again.A decade later, aircraft appeared in the skies over the battlefields of World War I, but they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles had already been in use for decades, and balloons had carried soldiers above the landscape for centuries to provide a high observation point superior to most geological features. The French used a balloon for this purpose at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and by the American Civil War, military hydrogen balloons saw frequent use, filled from wagons generating hydrogen from iron filings and sulfuric acid. The balloonist Thaddeus Lowe persuaded President Abraham Linco ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Bernard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162232/bk_acx0_162232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Famous Dirigibles: The History and Legacy of Lighter than Air Vehicles from the Renaissance to Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 195min
    The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the “problem of human flight” already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work, and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight. In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet. The Wright Flyer I had just made history, and minutes later it would be permanently damaged after wind gusts tipped it over; it would never fly again.A decade later, aircraft appeared in the skies over the battlefields of World War I, but they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles had already been in use for decades, and balloons had carried soldiers above the landscape for centuries to provide a high observation point superior to most geological features. The French used a balloon for this purpose at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and by the American Civil War, military hydrogen balloons saw frequent use, filled from wagons generating hydrogen from iron filings and sulfuric acid. The balloonist Thaddeus Lowe persuaded President Abraham Lincoln ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Bernard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164006/bk_acx0_164006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Orgo Runners: Books 1-4: Boxset , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min
    Being great at something isn't always a good thing!Prepare to be gripped! Follow Fayth and her friends, along with their orgo companions, on their first four dangerous missions. Plus, get an exclusive sneak preview of book five!The First Run (book one)Fourteen-year-old Fayth is a champion! Along with her friends, she races animals known as orgo in order to survive the aftermath of a new ice age. But when Fayth’s friend is caught stealing, she has an awful choice to make.... Join Fayth, Ink, and Megg as they embark on their first deadly mission with their orgo companions.Glider Attack (book two)The danger had only just begun.... As champion orgo racers, Fayth, Ink, and Megg were chosen to transport food supplies. Yet, they had no idea how much danger they faced. Join them on their second mission to Scorr Tanta. Along the way, they are ambushed by a mob of greedy gliders from Eklips territory.Seacrawler (book three)Doing the right thing could risk their lives.... Fayth, Ink, and Megg have a difficult choice to make when an enormous sea creature gets stranded at the harbor! Megg wants to make sure that the seacrawler is safe, and she'll do everything she can to help it. But, when Fayth chooses to help Megg instead of going to work, she manages to get herself into a heap of trouble with the wardens.Legend of the Orgo (book four)Find the answers you've been looking for.... When Ink's orgo becomes ill, he asks Cedric to help her get better. But during their visit to Cedric's barn, both Ink and Megg get more than they bargained for. Through Cedric's stories, Ink and Megg learn about how the orgo evolved, and it isn't what either of them expected! Join the Orgo Runners as they find out about Tobus, Calli, and the legend of the orgo.Wild Whomphorn (book five preview)Be there when a grou ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trista Shaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165834/bk_acx0_165834_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Modern Balloons and Airships: The History and Legacy of Dirigibles During the 20th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
    The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the “problem of human flight” already.Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air and Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything, from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo da Vinci. Undeterred by the work and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight. In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet. The Wright Flyer I had just made history, and minutes later, it would be permanently damaged after wind gusts tipped it over; it would never fly again. A decade later, aircraft appeared in the skies over the battlefields of World War I, but they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles had already been in use for decades and balloons had carried soldiers above the landscape, for centuries, to provide a high observation point superior to most geological features. The French used a balloon for this purpose at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794. By the American Civil War, military hydrogen balloons saw frequent use, filled from wagons generating hydrogen from iron filings and sulfuric acid. The balloonist Thaddeus Lowe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Bernard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162958/bk_acx0_162958_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pilot 101: How to Become a Pilot and Achieve Success in Your Aviation Career from a to Z , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
    Pilot 101 is for anyone who is interested in aviation and being a pilot, whether simply for personal recreation and travel, or as a career. The audiobook is organized in approximately the same sequence a person would follow, from thinking about being a pilot, to the training and experience required for most aviation careers, including airlines and military aviation. Learn how to determine if flying, either as a hobby or a career is right for you. If you decide you are interested in being a pilot, it will provide you with key steps to prepare for flight training and set your personal aviation goals. Topics covered include how to decide what kind of pilot you want to be, and then the initial steps for your path into aviation, including what you will have to learn, how your training will progress, and help you set goals. Training requirements for each phase of flight training are summarized, including FAA test requirements. There is a section that spells out the privileges of and requirements for different pilot certificates, from being a Sport pilot to an airline or military pilot. Even different types of aircraft are covered including helicopters and gliders. Training programs are described, from initial training at a local airport to attending a flight academy or university aviation program that will take you from “the ground up”, from first flight to qualification as a professional pilot and set you on the way to your ultimate aviation goals.  Mr. Richmond has been involved in aviation in one way or another for more than 40 years. He received his initial flight training in the U. S. Air Force. The Air Force 53-week flight training program is generally recognized as a master’s degree level course, and, in addition to basic and advanced flight training include a broad range of aerospace academics, including aerodynamics, meteorology, aircraft systems, navigation, FAA regulations, safety and survival, instrument ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sunny Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152599/bk_acx0_152599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Book Bundle of Psychological Thrillers: What Goes Around, Hidden Within, Fatal Words , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1041min
    What Goes Around The 61-year-old Ruth Barstow is mean, bitter, and always sticking her nose in everyone’s business, including telling the local police chief how to do his job - or lose it. Though he took an oath to protect her, he’s had enough of her vile, demanding attitude. She’s pushed him beyond his limit, so when the opportunity presents itself, he pounces on the chance to eliminate the most hated person in town.  Will Ruth succumb to his psychological terror? Or will she face the demon of her past and learn to accept she can’t hide from the truth - or pain - forever?  Hidden Within All she wanted was her mother’s love and acceptance. What she got was her worst nightmare.  The murder of Mara’s father and grandmother thrusts her into her mother’s life of secrets and lies - and crushing emotional abuse. Alone and starving for love, she has no one to turn to except her pet sugar gliders.  Then, she meets Travis Raines. He’s everything her father warned her about and everything she needs to protect her shattered soul. With him, she discovers her strength - and the vengeful, deadly secrets of the past. Now, Mara’s done being the victim.  Fatal Words An incident of online bullying leads to a young girl’s suicide - and her sister’s vow to avenge her death. A freak accident flipped 11-year-old Zoe Winfield’s world upside down and left her without a father - and with a drug-addicted, abusive mother. Alone and afraid, she finds solace in a sugar glider named Boomer. When he unexpectedly falls ill, she seeks help from an online sugar glider group, which viciously attacks her instead of helps. Unable to cope, she commits suicide. Now, her sister wants those responsible to pay with their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134777/bk_acx0_134777_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History for Kids: The Illustrated Lives of the Wright Brothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    Perfect for ages 7-9."For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. I have been trying to arrange my affairs in such a way that I can devote my entire time for a few months to experiment in this field.” - Wilbur Wright, 1900The lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright are quintessential American stories. Growing up in America’s heartland, the boys lived very ordinary lives with five other siblings and worked in printing jobs and repair jobs that involved tinkering with tools and bicycles. But at the end of the 20th century, one of the brothers’ passions became an obsession, especially for Wilbur, who would later write, "My brother and I became seriously interested in the problem of human flight in 1899."The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the "problem of human flight" already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air and Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight.In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet. The Wright Flyer I had just ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103742/bk_acx0_103742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Real Romance Collection: No Shades Needed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
    Enjoy listening to these historical romance titles that will take you away: Sky Birds Dare!, The Battling Pilot, The Dive Bomber, Twenty Fathoms Down & Arctic Wings. Sky Birds Dare: When it comes to gliders, ace pilot Breeze Callaghan is as smooth as they come. He perfects a skill that will prove vital for decades to come as demonstrated by Captain Sully Sullenberger, who famously landed his disabled passenger plane on the Hudson River. Vying for a Navy contract, Breeze is going up against a vulture named Badger O Dowell. But there's more than money at stake: There's his reputation, his life, and his love of a beautiful woman. And as for danger, the sky's the limit when Sky Birds Dare! The sky is calling, the wind is whipping, and the adventure takes wing as the audio version soars into action. The Battling Pilot: Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately it's been downright dull. Pete's hungry for adventure and he's about to get his fill . . . when a princess boards his plane. She's at the center of some international intrigue . . . and now a mysterious plane is on their tail, bent on shooting them out of the sky. But that's the least of Pete's concerns. There's more to this princess than meets the eye, and falling in love with her could turn out to be the greatest flight risk of all. Suspense, intrigue, mystery, romance they're all flying high as the audio version takes you on a rendezvous with love and war. The Dive Bomber: Lucky Martin is a daredevil of the skies. He's a trailblazer, and his latest invention could change the face of air warfare. But America s enemies will go to any length to get their hands on the plane from sabotage to kidnapping his fiance. Lucky will have to push his luck to the limit to save his plane, save his girl . . . and save his country. Fasten your seat-belt and hold on to your crash helmet as the au ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Christina Huntington, Phil Proctor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000125/bk_gala_000125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eddie Rickenbacker: The Life and Legacy of America's Top World War I Fighter Ace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
    Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker. The men and women who won World War II for the Allies have been called "the greatest generation," and rightfully so, for they saved the Western world from destruction and domination by totalitarian dictators. As Winston Churchill so eloquently put it, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." However, even within this glorious group, there was another, perhaps even more superlative generation made up of men and women who fought not only in World War II, but also World War I, which at the time was the deadliest and most destructive war in history. A few of these fighters were young enough to fight in both wars, and Eddie Rickenbacker was one of them, one of the "best of the best." Though he served only in a civilian capacity during World War II, he remains today a romantic hero of a bygone era, a man who flew airplanes that were little more than hang gliders with engines and guns, and survived to help design jets. His service won him the Medal of Honor, along with more awards for valor than any other person fighting in World War I. But participating in the wars was not nearly enough time in the air for the ambitious Rickenbacker. When he was not setting new records in the air, he was setting new speed records on the ground, most notably as a first generation race car driver who not only drove cars, but designed them. He also served for decades as the president of one of the world's first major commercial passenger aviation companies, Eastern Airlines, seeing it through the ups and downs of the financial and technological boom and bust in America between the wars. Eddie Rickenbacker: The Life and Legacy of America's Top World War I Fighter Ace, chronicles the remarkable life of one of America's greatest war heroes. Along with pictures of important people, places, and ev ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092253/bk_acx0_092253_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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