Flight Of The Cromenockle (2024)

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The Flight of the Cromenockle is a children's fantasy book written by Kay Dillon. It is a favorite of the young Ethan Matthews, who frequently draws parallels between his and his family's ordeals and the quest of the titular character, the Cromenockle.

The “Flight of the Angel” is a traditional event that goes back to the Serenissima period where an unknown guest of Venice, flying along a rope from San Marco bell tower to the middle of the square, will offer an homage to the Doge, and will be greeted by the crowded parterre of the period costumes parades of the ...

On July 4, 1978, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-year-old David Freeman walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old brother, Jeff, from a friend's house, when he falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious. When he revives, eight years have mysteriously passed, and it is now 1986.

Summary. "Flight" is a movie based on Alaska Airlines Flight 261, but not a true story. The movie portrays an alcoholic pilot who saves most passengers after a crash landing. The NTSB blamed Alaska Airlines for the actual crash of Flight 261 due to poor maintenance.

This book is loosely based on Amelia Earhart's story which I didn't know much about so it was very fascinating. This book includes a love story but also a story about friendship and I loved seeing that friendship develop between Irene and Janey.

The crew of this AC-130A Spectre gunship, named Azrael (Azrael, in the Koran, is the angel of death who severs the soul from the body) displayed courage and heroism during the closing hours of Operation Desert Storm.

The once-dark sky now comes to brilliant life with a sea of similar illuminated beings. They speak and praise, but they are not human. They float and fly, but they have no wings. These are Yahweh's angels—heavenly messengers.

Angel Flight Oklahoma delivers blood products for the Oklahoma Blood Institute and Red Cross in emergency situations. Angel Flight volunteer pilots Doug Vincent and Mark Haywood piloted the first flight allowed in the air after the 9/11 terrorist attack to deliver blood to Ground Zero.

Parents need to know that Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 science fiction movie in which a 12-year-old Miami boy from 1978 is abducted by an alien and ends up eight years into the future. There are some moments of iffy humor: The bratty little brother of the lead character calls the lead character's dog …

Flight of the Navigator is directed by Randal Kleiser and is adapted to screenplay by Michael Burton and Matt MacManus from a story by Mark H. Baker. It stars Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Howard Hesseman and the voice of Paul Reubens.

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Max reluctantly travels back in time with David and successfully returns him unharmed and at the same moment he left. He makes his way home and finds everything the way he left it before he disappeared. He and his family take off in their boat to see the fireworks and he makes up with Jeff.

Although the characters are fictional, Meacham emphasizes that all references to the missions, structure and official sites of operation of the key German military organizations mentioned in “Dragonfly”— Abwehr, Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst—are facts drawn from research.

Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.

The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar is a fascinating, fictionalised account of the role female pilots played on the home front during World War II.

Duong Thu Huong's The Zenith (Viking, 528 pp., $32.95) is a complex doorstop of a novel that examines the lives and thoughts of a group of top Vietnamese leaders of the 1950s and 1960s.