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THE GLASS COCKPIT
BY
ROBERT P DAVIS
Trent Aircraft Ltd., in conjunction with Saab and Rolls-Royce built the Trent 270, the largest twin-engine aircraft in the world. The Trent 270 is 232 feet long, is slightly larger than a Boeing 747 and can carry over five hundred passengers. Five years after FAA certification (and three unfortunate crashes), an Intra-Continental Trent 270 is being prepared for IA flight 19, Tulsa to Chicago. Under the command of Captain Glen "Lucky" Doyle, his co-pilot and ex-girlfriend Connie Esposito and check pilot André Bouchard, the Trent 270 lines up at the end of the runway.
Meanwhile, 49-year old Douglas Halsey is preparing to fly his six-seat Rockwell Turbo Commander out of Tulsa. IA flight 19 – "Whisky Charlie" – is cleared to depart. Doug Halsey's plane, November Five Four Victor (N54V) mistakenly takes-off from a disused runway, into the path of the oncoming Trent 270. Five Four Victor slams into the tail of "Whiskey Charlie", badly damaging the horizontal stabilizer, the tail and the rudder. The Rockwell is destroyed instantly, killing the only occupant, Doug Halsey. Meanwhile, "Whiskey Charlie" climbs through 2,000 feet with a nose-up attitude of twelve degrees. The rudders and elevators are utterly useless, there seems to be no way to adjust the aircraft's pitch...
A DANGEROUS FORTUNE
BY
The author, a masterful storyteller, weaves an intriguing and mesmerizing tapestry of events that surround the wealthy Pilaster banking family in the latter part of nineteenth century England. Its panoramic sweep will hold the reader in its thrall. This complex story tells of the ebb and flow of their individual personal fortunes and the personalities that are to profoundly affect them, for better or worse.
THE WRONG HOUSE
BY
CAROL McD WALLACE
The author really shows some sides of our humanness that can't always be expressed. She shows an example of wanting something from our partner which we are not even sure of. Her character then gets the recognition that she needs from an unlikely source.
THE FOUNDATION
BY
COLIN ANDREWS
QUINN CLEARY HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR. BUT HER FAMILY IS POOR, SO THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE HER DREAM COME TRUE IS TO WIN A PLACE AT THE INGHAM, THE GOLD PLATED MEDICAL SCHOOL WHICH ONLY ACCEPTS THE BEST STUDENTS BUT WHERE TUITION IS - FUNDED BY THE POWERFUL KLEEDERMAN FOUNDATION......AS THE TERM PROGRESSES QUINN STARTS TO NOTICE A SUBTLE CHANGE IN HER FELLOW STUDENTS. EVEN THE FREEST OF THINKERS ARE BECOMING STRANGELY RIGID IN THEIR VIEWS. WHEN SHE CONFESSES THESE SUSPICIONS TO HER BOYFRIEND, TIM, HE LAUGHS IT OFF..UNTIL HE DISCOVERS A TINY MICROPHONE. SUDDENLY TIM DISAPPEARS WITHOUT A TRACE..........
This book is second hand
HARDCOVER
RED COVER WITH RED SPINE
SLIGHT YELLOWING OF PAGES
BUT OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION
1981 1ST EDITION
542 PAGES
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