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Russian Aircraft Manufacturing Companies    by peter dancey 
Price: $2.99 USD. 15370 words. Published on March 10, 2011. .

Continuing the series Origins of Russian Aviation this book details all the famous Russian 'Names' both in the airframe and aero-engine sector the latter being of particular interest to the technocrats (SAE) with much new information of Russian aero-engines their design development to present day and 4th and 5th generation military planes and the latest passenger transports for the civil sector.
Crash    by Darren G. Burton
Price: $0.99 USD. 5240 words. Published on May 18, 2011. .

Jason is returning home to London from a business trip in Crete. An hour and a half into the flight and both jet engines flame out for no apparent reason. The captain diverts the aircraft to the nearest airport for an emergency landing. However, the flight doesn't make it and crashes in a remote mountain wilderness somewhere near Slovenia.
Sortir de l'impasse (3)    by
You set the price! 1170 words. Published on May 22, 2011. .

Cinquième billet de la série consacrée à l'absence de prospective en politique, notamment dans le domaine de l'énergie. Rappel des caractéristiques techniques de la fission nucléaire et de la fusion nucléaire. Avantages de l'hélium 3 dans ce processus de fusion. Possibilités et conditions d'exploitation de l'hélium 3 lunaire.
Autopilot    by Tor Richardson
Price: $0.99 USD. 7410 words. Published by Grey Cat Press  on August 25, 2011. .

"Another day, another airliner. Just shoot me now." This essay follows the thoughts of an executive commuting to work on an airliner—once a mark of the elite, but now a barely-tolerated imposition. Along the way, he remembers life as a fun-loving kid and searches to recall how he was tricked into going through life on Autopilot: caring only for the destination at the expense of the journey.
The Strange Journal of the Boy Henry    by San Alini
Price: $2.99 USD. 61730 words. Published on October 14, 2011. .

An eleven year old boy wakes up in a bedroom. He doesn’t know where he is and doesn’t remember who he is. He finds a very strange household whose members insist he is part of their family. When the creepy dad starts asking him strange questions, the boy notes his observations in a journal, to solve the puzzle of his very peculiar situation.
Deadstick    by Sean Monaghan
Price: $0.99 USD. 5700 words. Published on October 25, 2011. .

Behind the stick in Sally Jean's cockpit, Hank feels alive and exhilarated. Test flying the experimental jet is his life. But when an explosion and fire threaten his son and ex-wife, Hank's forced to break every rule - in the book and in the air - to try to rescue them.
Shuttle    by David C. Onley
Price: $4.99 USD. 89180 words. Published by Bev Editions  on December 22, 2011. .

Edwards Air Force Base: the giant Hypersonic Jet Yorktown with the Shuttle Columbia clasped to her back, climbs to the sky. Their pioneering mission: to launch the Shuttle into space from the edge of the atmosphere. Neither craft will reach its destination. One will never return. This dramatic bestselling novel of a space mission gone perilously wrong, first published in 1981, thrills again.