Aviation category: 3881 books
Air Safety Investigators
Using Science to Save Lives—One Crash at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This fascinating story explains how aviation crashes are investigated, and what goes on behind the scenes to improve safety. It is also the untold saga of how one maverick scientist battled the bureaucracy to save lives.
Federal officials hired him to prevent an anticipated bloodbath from airline...
by Julie Boatman Filucci
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This is the story of an aircraft like none other-a true legend, the icon of an industry and one of the most recognized aircraft in history. Today, over 75 years after her first flight, the DC-3 graces the skies of the 21st century. Crowds still gather to watch a DC-3 land, technicians revel in the sound...
by Michael Branigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
“Delves into O’Hare’s past and present, based on Branigan’s extensive research and his interviews with aviation professionals and enthusiasts” (Chicago Tribune).
In 1942, a stretch of Illinois prairie that had served as a battleground and a railroad depot became the site of a major...
The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters
USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942. On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered...
by Walter Boyne, Philip Handleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation’s most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft – planes like the elliptical-winged Spitfire,...
by Peter Dancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This is a comprehensive history of NASA's aviation programs, starting with NACA research in the 1940s and 1950s through the space race to current times. Topics covered include: NACA, Langley, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, wind tunnels, von Karman, Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Hugh Dryden, Max...
New England Warplanes
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
This aviation handbook is designed to be used as a quick reference to the classic military heritage aircraft that have been restored and preserved in the Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. The aircraft include those fl own by members of the US Air Force, the US...
by Cory Graff
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Even before there were runways, the area south of the city of Seattle was Washington�s aviation hub. Charles Hamilton, a daredevil dubbed �Crazy Man of the Air,� became the first flyer in the state when he coaxed his Curtiss biplane into the sky over Meadows Racetrack in 1910. He promptly crashed....
Eastern Air Lines
A History, 1926-1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation. Clement Keys of National Air Transport bought the company in 1929, changed the name to Eastern Air Transport and began passenger...
Flying the Beam
Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected...
by Robert F. Pauley
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Engineers, inventors, and dreamers in the state of Michigan had been searching for the secret of heavier-than-air flight well before the Wright brothers� successful flights in 1903. In 1911, the first aircraft manufacturer opened for business in Michigan. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Detroit area...
Chasing the Demon
A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told.
Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference...
Chicago
City of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Since the late 1800s, Chicago has been a mecca for aviation. Chicago's Octave Chanute kept the skies filled with revolutionary gliders and his expertise in aeronautics contributed to the Wright Brothers' success. Chicago: City of Flight tells the story of aviation in the city with exciting chapters on...