Resultados para "A Flight" en Guerra y ejército

The Last Flight is the heroic story of Gil Connor, an Army helicopter pilot as he struggles with the finality of a terminal illness. Haunted by the horrors of war and a turbulent past, Connor is torn between ending his embattled life and saving the survivors of a remote Alaska plane crash. Amid the turmoil of an approaching storm and almost certain failure, his underlying intentions are unknown, even to himself, until the very end.

While Congress debates the merits of continued funding for the stealth bomber, sinister forces have their own goals in mind. During a training exercise, a B-2 bomber disappears. When search efforts produce no evidence that the bomber crashed, the US Air Force has no choice but to acknowledge that one of its most secret and high-tech aircraft has been hijacked.

Recovery of the B-2 and its crew becomes the president's highest priority, and the Kremlin claims no knowledge of the missing aircraft. Finally, intelligence leads to what at first seems a very unlikely suspect: Cuba.

Berlin, 1942. For four years, the men in field grey have helped themselves to country after country across Western Europe. For Werner Nehmann, a journalist at the Promi - the Ministry of Propaganda - this dizzying series of victories has felt like a party without end. But now the Reich's attention has turned towards the East, and as winter sets in, the mood is turning. Werner's boss, Joseph Goebbels, can sense it. A small man with a powerful voice and coal black eyes, Goebbels has a deep understanding of the dark arts of manipulation.

Travis Air Force Base, 1974. The same tarmac where F. Scott Morgan departed for his first tour of duty in Vietnam now marks his return, but this time, everything is different. The war has changed, the missions are shrouded in secrecy, and the man he was is a distant memory. Morgan is a seasoned warrior, but he is also haunted by the choices he has made and the love he left behind. As he flies deeper into the heart of darkness, he discovers that the greatest battles are often fought within.

Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent 28 weeks on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list and became one of the top-20 best-selling first novels of all time. An instant classic, the book was translated into more than 20 languages and made into a major motion picture. Its hero, Jake Grafton, became a household name and the star of many more Coonts’ best-sellers. Without question, the strength of the book lies in its flying scenes when Jake Grafton straps himself into the cockpit of his A-6 Intruder.

Following the dramatic events in the conclusion of Sudden Storm, Keith Maddox returns to his air charter business in Aspen, but it isn’t long before he accepts an appealing offer for some much-needed R and R at sea in the South Pacific doing marine research work for his old boss, Admiral RTD Robert Jessel.

Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway best seller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America's military superiority being surpassed as our greatest enemy masters space-to-Earth weapons technology - neutralizing the U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles.

America's only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware - and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man...

After his last deployment with the Wallbangers that resulted in the demise of his Hawkeye skipper, Navy pilot Jack “Rattler” Owen is ready for a fresh start. Now flying the F/A-18C Hornet with the Warhawks on the West Coast, he’s preparing for his next deployment and enjoying spending time with his girlfriend, Sandy.

In the dark recesses of a hangar, hidden deep in the Mojave desert, an experimental hypersonic aircraft sits in the shadows. A secret to all but a handful of men, the XS-81 has a very specific task, ready to protect the United State’s military secrets from a new wave of Soviet satellites.

Jack "Rattler" Owen is a navy pilot on a combat deployment struggling with life at sea. If dealing with separation from his family, the constant grind of shipboard life, and malfunctions in the E-2C Hawkeye weren't enough, it now seems that someone is out to get him. As he tries to navigate his time on the aircraft carrier, he realizes that things are not adding up in his squadron.

Serving her country as one of the Women's Army Special Pilots is Maggie Daniels's dearest wish. But there are obstacles to overcome above and beyond the enemies in the Pacific, including her overprotective family, skeptical fellow pilots - and handsome, distant squadron leader Wesley Hicks. Whatever it takes, Maggie will prove herself to Wesley, until she succeeds in winning his admiration…and love.

“Fire on the flight deck!” Ominous words when living on an aircraft carrier hundreds of miles at sea. An American supercarrier flight deck is considered by many to be one of the most dangerous places on earth. Multi-million dollar aircraft launching, landing, and taxiing in the space of a few football fields, all orchestrated by a control tower and flight deck crew whose average age is nineteen. During the Cold War of the 1980s, this massive ship provided the largest, mobile weapon in the United States arsenal, instilling fear and respect among opposing forces.

Project Guiding Light is NATO's biggest secret. A system to take long-range bombers deep into the Soviet Union, undetected. There's just one problem, and veteran engineer Chris Milford has found it. A lethal flaw that means the aircrew will pay a terrible price. Undermined and belittled by a commanding officer who values loyalty over safety, Milford is forced down a dangerous, subversive path. Even his closest friend, Rob May, the youngest test pilot on the project, has turned his back on him. Until the crash that changes everything.

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II. It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, 18-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande...

Will Jaeger, Ex-Elitesoldat und Gründer von Enduro Adventures, erhält den Auftrag seines Lebens: Für eine TV-Show soll er mit einer Gruppe von Kandidaten ein mysteriöses Flugzeugwrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg im brasilianischen Dschungel bergen. Doch bei den Vorbereitungen stirbt sein Freund Smithy. Die Polizei wertet den mysteriösen Tod als Unglück. Ein Symbol, das der Tote trägt, lässt Will jedoch Böses erahnen. Denn er hat es schon einmal gesehen.

Ken Follet-the master of suspense-follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of the early days of World War II. Abridged, 5 CDs, 6...

After a particularly long cruise, the USS United States is in port in Naples, and her crew is enjoying its first liberty in months. But something's not right. Several crew members have not reported back from their leave, and a beautiful American reporter who boarded the United States in Tangiers may not be a reporter, or even an American. When one of Jake's men, in a hotel in Naples, witnesses an assassination attempt led by this woman, Grafton realizes the situation is much more serious than he suspected.

Milla Roux is ’n veearts wat werk by ’n rehabilitasiesentrum vir sjimpansees in die DRK. Spoedig begin die skermutselings tussen regeringstroepe en rebelle-organisasies van die hele Kongo ’n gevaargebied maak, en kort voor lank is ook die rehabilitasiesentrum in die kruisvuur vasgevang. Saam met drie klein sjimpansee-wesies slaan ’n gewonde Milla op die vlug, vergesel van die enigmatiese Graham Saunders van die organisasie Dokters sonder grense.