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Short stories about aviation. Pages in category "Short stories about aviation" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
A reading of the story by Alan Maitland has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. [1]On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd, with music and sound effects, at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, in London.
"The Aviator" (L'Aviateur), as published originally in French in April 1926 in the literary magazine, Le Navire d'Argent (The Silver Ship), shown at lower centre."The Aviator" is the 1965 English translation of a short story, L'Aviateur, by the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944, Mort pour la France).
Flying Aces was a monthly American periodical of short stories about aviation, one of a number of so-called "flying pulp" magazines popular during the 1920s and 1930s.Like other pulp magazines, it was a collection of adventure stories, originally printed on coarse, pulpy paper but later moved to a slick format.
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock. [1] This early collection is a stylistic departure from Dahl's better known stories. For the most part they do not use suspense or twist endings and are instead more slow-paced and reflective.
Gann's major works include the novel The High and the Mighty and his aviation memoir Fate Is the Hunter (regarded by many as one of the best-ever books about aviation). [1] Notes and short stories scribbled during long layovers on his journeys across the North Atlantic became the source for his first serious fiction novel, Island in the Sky ...
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash. On ...
Johns continued writing Biggles short stories and novels up until his death in 1968; in all, nearly 100 Biggles books were published. A final unfinished novel, Biggles Does Some Homework , shows Biggles at last preparing to retire and meeting his mixed-race replacement; Johns died while writing this novel.