Aviation History

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    • The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution
    • By: Duncan Campbell-Smith
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Jet Man is the story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero....

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    • A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI
    • By: Arthur Gould Lee
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • This account of the Great War puts you right in the action - from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps....

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    • A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
    • By: Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry
    • Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history....

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    • An Accident Investigator's Fight for Safe Skies
    • By: David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people....

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    • The Making of a Jet Fighter Instructor
    • By: Dave Bio Baranek
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Before becoming an instructor in the Navy's Topgun program, Dave "Bio" Baranek was just another kid with a dream. Upon graduating from college, he joined the Navy....

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    • The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and Its Most Extraordinary Mission
    • By: Rowland White
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Mosquito sheds never-before-told light on a pivotal mission that helped bring the war to its bloody and brutal close....

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    • Nose-Diving into History
    • By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Series: Epic Fails, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation....

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    • The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
    • By: John R Bruning
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal....

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    • My Story of the Air War in Europe
    • By: Frank Murphy, Chloe Melas - foreword, Elizabeth Murphy - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jonas Moore
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • More than a war story, Luck of the Draw is the inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors from the 100th Bombardment Group, who cheated death for months in a German POW camp after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress....

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    • Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club' was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the US Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam and this book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975....

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    • A WWII Novel Inspired by the Greatest Aviation Rescue in History
    • By: Tom Young
    • Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Summer 1944: Yugoslavia is locked in a war within a war. In addition to fighting the German occupation, warring factions battle each other. Hundreds of Allied airmen have been shot down over this volatile region, among them American lieutenant Bill Bogdonavich....

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    • The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel
    • By: Samme Chittum
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future....

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    • The Untold Story of the First Heroes of the Air
    • By: Joshua Levine
    • Narrated by: Joshua Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Few are aware of the risks that the pioneering airmen of the First World War took. On a Wing and a Prayer is a narrative history that conveys the perils of those early days, the thrills of learning to fly....

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    • The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History
    • By: Mark Urban
    • Narrated by: Mark Urban
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A gripping authorised history of the daring 'Red Devils', the trailblazers of the parachute regiment....

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    • How to Be a Fighter Pilot
    • By: Paul Tremelling
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Paul Tremelling was just seven years old when he watched the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers leave their home base in Somerset to do battle against the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands War. Two decades later, he would join this exclusive club....

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    • The Dramatic True Stories of Airmen Who Baled Out – and Lived
    • By: Ian Mackersey
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airmen who have jumped from their planes and survived....

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    • The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
    • By: Chris Petty
    • Narrated by: Marlin May
    • Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • The role of not only the test pilots but the engineers, aerodynamicists, and support staff in making supersonic flight possible has been widely overlooked. Beyond Blue Skies charts the triumphs and tragedies of the rocket-plane era....

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    • By: Cricket Media
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Long before the Wright brothers invented the airplane, people have tried everything they could think of to fly. Learn about the long history of flight, starting in ancient China and including everything from hot air balloons to rockets!

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