The Story of Transatlantic Flight (Airlife's Classics S.)
by David Beaty
The Atlantic had proved a graveyard for many ships, and when the first butterfly craft began to fly it, all the omens warned that it would swallow up planes as well. Opening with a passenger in the 1970s who is taking off in a jumbo jet, this text unfolds the tapestry of what went before.
The Engines of Pratt & Whitney: A Technical History describes the evolution from piston engines to gas turbines by the engineers who created those engines. Included are hundreds of archival photographs, as well as over a dozen tables listing specifications and applications. The story starts with the founding of the company in the 1920s to provide reliable air-cooled piston engines to the military and to help create coast-to-coast commercial flight service. Pratt & Whitney quickly dominated comme...
NASA Apollo Spacecraft Command and Service Module News Reference
by NASA
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
by Peter L. Jakab and Tom D. Crouch
With the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the Wrights, The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will
1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet
by Kenneth E Pauley and Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum
Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies Great Lives Series
by Susan Sloate
From the dawn of flight, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation. Favored by geography and a superb network of railroads, the Windy City rapidly became the nation's crossroad. Young's richly illustrated history portrays the inventors, entrepreneurs, and aviators who conquered the skies and made Chicago the nation's premier hub for air travel and transport. Aviation's colorful figures come to life as Young recounts tales of the pilots, patrons, and passengers who sparked p...
The Airplane - A Practical Discussion Of The Principles Of Airplane Flight
by Frederick Bedell
Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sources, 'Hunters over Arabia' presents an in-depth account of the operations performed by the Hawker Hunter squadrons policing the desert wastelands and high mountain ranges of the Middle East. Copiously illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, a high percentage of operations performed by this versatile British ground attack and reconnaissance fighter are described in detail. Using a chronological form...
This rugged and reliable heavy bomber served in the European, Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of World War II. This is a profile of the rugged and reliable American heavy bomber which served in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Pacific during World War II. Winston Churchill used a single-fin Liberator named Commando when travelling to conferences with the Allies.
This is a collection of stories, capturing the fierce spirit of bush pilots and their adventures, wrecks, humor and rescues.
'I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!' Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open...