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Adventures in a helicopter
Adrian Bleese spent 12 years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world.
In Above the Law, he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing, and downright baffling episodes in his career working for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory, and disrupting an illegal forest rave…they’re all in a day’s work.
It’s a side of policing that most of us never see, and he describes it with real compassion as he lives his dream job, indulging his love of flying, the English landscape, and helping people. Perhaps more than anything, it’s a story about hope.
©2021 Adrian Bleese (P)2022 Adrian BleeseLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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"The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery's plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler's Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account records one man's experience of World War II air warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating...and true story
- De Loretta en 06-24-15
De: Philip Ardery
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Sully
- My Search for What Really Matters
- De: Chesley B. Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie, Chesley B. Sullenberger
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 707
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. His story is now a major motion picture from director/producer Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, and Aaron Eckhart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Really Dull.
- De Nick en 09-14-16
De: Chesley B. Sullenberger, y otros
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Bird Dream
- Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight
- De: Matt Higgins
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Human flight is one of the last great challenges on Earth. Not like how the Wright brothers flew, but how we fly in our dreams. This is the goal of the Wingsuit Landing Project: to soar through the sky at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour and to land without the aid of a parachute. This project is the creation of 37-year-old Jeb Corliss, Jr., a Southern Californian who seeks to emulate a mode of flight more like a flying squirrel than bird or plane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read
- De Jowly en 04-22-15
De: Matt Higgins
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Life's Too Short to Cry
- The Compelling Story of a Battle of Britain Ace
- De: Tim Vigors
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
It is not often that a long-hidden gem of a manuscript is published, bringing a moment in WWII history to vivid life for today’s audiences. Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light was one example. The memoir of Timothy Vigors is another. Born in Hatfield but raised in Ireland and educated at Eton and Cranwell, Vigors found himself in France in 1940 flying Fairey Battle bombers. After the Fall he joined the fighters of 222 Squadron, with whom he saw frantic and distinguished service over Dunkirk and persevered through the dangerous days of the Battle of Britain, when he became an ace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Ethan en 03-24-21
De: Tim Vigors
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Inside Marine One
- Four U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World's Most Amazing Helicopter
- De: Lee Kelley, Ray L'Heureux
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Inside Marine One is Colonel L'Heureux's inspiring story of a young man who dreamed of flying, trained, studied, and worked hard to become the pilot who ended up serving four US Presidents - George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. It's also a personal guided tour inside the world's most famous helicopter by a man who knows that flying machine better than any other. Inside Marine One is a great American success story of a young boy who dreamed big, worked hard, and finally flew the President of the United States as his number one passenger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De John A. en 01-05-23
De: Lee Kelley, y otros
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- De: Giles Whittell
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 833
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 742
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bridge of Spies
- De BookReader en 09-28-15
De: Giles Whittell
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Southern Storm
- The Tragedy of Flight 242
- De: Samme Chittum
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and, behind him, the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in her yard. The plane, a Southern Airways DC-9-31, had been carrying 81 passengers and four crew members en route to Atlanta when it entered a massive thunderstorm cell that turned into a dangerous cocktail of rain, hail, and lightning. Forced down onto a highway, the plane cut a swath of devastation through the small town of New Hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling read.
- De teri en 06-19-18
De: Samme Chittum
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Dreaming of Jupiter
- De: Ted Simon
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly 30 years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s. He meets up with old friends and acquaintances, revisits old landmarks and locations, and rediscovers himself, as well as the world, along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book, Amazing Man
- De Roxanna en 08-16-18
De: Ted Simon
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Come Up and Get Me
- An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
- De: Joe Kittinger, Craig Ryan
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1984. But the aeronautical feats that first made him an American hero had occurred a quarter of a century earlier....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A rewarding read
- De Andrew Braddick en 03-25-13
De: Joe Kittinger, y otros
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- De: James R. Hansen
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 830
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 753
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 751
When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this "magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not really 'unabridged'
- De A Reader en 06-06-18
De: James R. Hansen
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Man Who Flew The Memphis Belle
- De: Robert Morgan, Ron Powers
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
As a young man growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Robert Morgan was a fast-driving party boy - a hell-raiser. But when his mother committed suicide upon learning she had inoperable brain cancer, Morgan's life changed dramatically. He was no longer a carefree playboy; he was a man searching for meaning. He found that meaning at the controls of an airplane, and in the flak-and fighter-filled skies over Occupied France and Nazi Germany.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Abridged Version = Butchered
- De Kyle en 01-03-17
De: Robert Morgan, y otros
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Dam Busters
- The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
The night of 16 May, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000-lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must for anyone interested in Air Warfare
- De Jim In Texas! en 03-24-14
De: James Holland
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A Thousand Shall Fall
- The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two
- De: Murray Peden
- Narrado por: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant account of WW2 flying
- De John en 06-14-17
De: Murray Peden
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Why Planes Crash
- An Accident Investigator's Fight for Safe Skies
- De: David Soucie, Ozzie Cheek
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented. He’s worked as a pilot, a mechanic, an FAA inspector, and an aviation executive. He’s seen death up close and personal - deaths of colleagues and friends that might have been prevented if he had approved certain safety measures in the aircrafts they were handling.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Me, Me, Me
- De WakeNCAgent en 09-13-19
De: David Soucie, y otros
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Fighter Pilot
- The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
- De: Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,077
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,617
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,612
A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—a double ace with twelve aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Notch Audiobook
- De R. A. Frank en 10-08-10
De: Robin Olds, y otros
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,587
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,334
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,329
By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the moon - in just four months.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Men Who Saved 1968
- De Gillian en 04-04-18
De: Robert Kurson
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A Race to Freedom
- The Mira Slovak Story
- De: David Williams
- Narrado por: Brian Callanan
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air Force, rising to captain by the age of 21. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom. He outlasted communism, and when it collapsed in 1990, he returned to his home, only to realize his true home was and always would be the US.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Free to live as an American.
- De cosmitron en 06-08-18
De: David Williams