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eBooks & Books

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Publication Date: 2022
Bobby Western investigates the crash of a private jet. Ten passengers boarded the flight but only nine victims are still strapped to their seats. Where is the tenth?
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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Publication Date: 2021
After encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes, Marian Graves begins her lifelong love affair with flight.
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Performing Flight by Scott Magelssen
Publication Date: 2020
The book reveals fundamental connections between performance and human aviation and space travel over the past 100 years.
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Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Publication Date: 2018
Spensa’s world IS under attack by an alien race called the Krell. Pilots are the heroes of what’s left of humanity. When the Krell double their fleet, this may be Spensa’s chance to get into Flight School.
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Films

The Wind Rises (2013)

Nearsighted from a young age and unable to become a pilot, Jiro Horikoshi joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. (2hrs 7mins)

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Great Electric Airplane Race (2021)

Nova looks at new electric planes on the horizon and takes you for a ride in some impressive prototypes that are already in the air. How long will it be before the dream of super-quiet, super-efficient airliners becomes a reality? (53mins)

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