Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 478 p. The aerodynamic principles that make flight possible were little known or barely understood as recently as a hundred years ago. Although their roots can be found in the fluid dynamics of ancient Greek science, it was not until the scientific breakthroughs at the beginning of the twentieth century that it became possible to design...
Antonov V., Gordon Y., Gordyukov N., Yakovlev V., Zenkin V., Carruth L., Miller J. Midland Publishing, Leicester, UK, 1996. — 298 p. — ISBN: 1857800125 The famous Russian soviet aircraft design bureau is thoroughly documented in this book, which has been prepared with the cooperation of the Sukhoi bureau and with extensive access to their records and photo files. Each...
Gallery Books, New York, 1990, 80 p. — ISBN: 0-8317-6058-3. Modern Air Power A book about modern fighter planes. The Jet Jockey The Monkey Version The Wild Weasels The Pinball Wizards
Facts on File, 1994. — 568 p. — ISBN: 9780816018543. Flight and Flying documents the evolution of aviation technology, covering historic accomplishments of great aviators, designers, and entrepreneurs. Its 7,000 entries are arranged by day, month, and year.
Airlife, 1994. — 481 p. Language: English WHEN the story behind the Soviets' most secret aircraft design bureau and the fighter planes it produced was made public in France in 1991, the world of military aviation was abuzz with its phenomenal revelations. Indeed, the Aero-Club de France heralded the original version as best document of the year. As the authors make clear, the...
The Boulton Paul Association. — Tempus Pub Ltd, 1999. — 128 p. — (The Archive Photographs). — ISBN: 978-0752406251, 0752406256. Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer that was incorporated in 1934, although its origins in aircraft manufacturing began earlier in 1914, and lasted until 1961. The company mainly built and modified aircraft under contract to...
Historical Aviation Album Publication, 1969. — 59 p. Welcome to the first issue of Aircraft Photo Album , the new series of just plain old fashioned airplane picture books. This issue is but the first, for we plan many more in the future. Once a schedule is formulated we hope to bring out two or more issues a year. There is nothing fancy or modernistic on tap, just a lot of...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 1065 p. — ISBN: 9781473838239. There is perhaps no other commercial airliner as iconic as the Boeing 747. A presence in our skies for over forty years, it has transported hundreds of thousands of passengers across the world. From its introduction with Pan American Airlines in 1970, it has persevered as one of the forerunners of commercial flight. Often...
ABC-Clio, 2002. — 771 p. — (Warfare Series). — ISBN10: 2276073459, ISBN13: 9781576073452. This encyclopedia of war in the air documents the entire history of aerial combat - from the primitive biplanes of World War I to the sophisticated stealth fighters of the 21st century. More than 100 scholars and experts - many with personal combat experience - offer researched articles on...
London: Boydell & Brewer, 2017. — 367 p. In this sparkling account, Brant uses the brief moment of balloon madness as a way into a wide-ranging exploration of Enlightenment sensibility in Britain. "All the world is mad about balloons" observers recorded during the craze in Britain that lasted from 1783 to 1786. Excitement about the new invention spread rapidly, inspiring hopes,...
New York: Smitsonian, 1992. — 221 p. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the rigid airship looked more likely to be the future of air travel and transportation than the small, rather fragile airplane. Using a lifting gas enclosed within a metal or wooden framework, rigid airships could fly longer distances and carry more passengers or cargo. Zeppelin: Rigid Airships...
L.: Key Publishing, 2016. — 100 p. Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive is a series of bookazines produced by a dedicated team of enthusiasts focusing on groups of aircraft from the history of aviation in a particularly close-up fashion. Featuring archive images alongside period cutaway diagrams, the intention is to take reader ‘inside’ the aircraft in the most literal sense.
Pen and Sword Transport, 2019. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1-526719-49-5. This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world's first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts –...
Midland Counties Publications, Leicester, UK, 1991. — 246 p. — ISBN: 0-904597-80-6 Following the formal birth of their design bureau in 1939, the Mikoyan and Gurevich design team ascended with extraordinary rapidity into the ranks of the aerospace elite. This meteoric rise was not without justification, as their perseverance had resulted in the development of a number of truly...
Praeger Publishers, 2003. 506 p. — ISBN: 1–56720–503–8. Predating the invention of the helicopter by two decades, the Autogiro was the world's first rotary-wing aircraft. The helicopter had the advantageous ability to rise straight up, while the Autogiro/gyroplane could only taxi. Yet the gyroplane was safer and more stable; both aircraft should have had value in market. Why...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 72 p. If you had never seen an airplane - or even a balloon or a kite what would convince you that man could fly?Discoveries and Inventions is a new series that looks at the history of science and technology from a unique perspective. In each of these concise and highly illustrated books, specialist science writers focus on areas of everyday...
Paladwr Press, 2005. - 119 p. ISBN: 1888962240. Many books have been written about the early history of the British airlines, from their infancy through their maturity and adulthood. In the case of British Airways, its ancestral infancy and adolescence took many forms, and this is possibly the first book that follows the sometimes complex relationships that led, first, to the...
Paladwr Press, RockVille, MD, 1992, 98 p. — ISBN: 0962648310. This book captures both the mundane and the historical. Aeroflot, at the height, was remarkable due to "its vast and complex domestic network, many of whose subdivisions alone would equate in size to a very large airline." This provided millions of travelers basic air transport over huge stretches of land at bargain...
Paladwr Press, RockVille, MD, 2001, 116 p. — ISBN: 1-888962-16-X. This book captures both the mundane and the historical. Superbly illustrated throughout with B&W photographs, maps and fine colour drawings by Mike Machat, this is an excellent history of TWA airline and their aircraft. Post Office Prelude Western Air Express Begins The Four Horsemen Douglas M-2 Veteran Elegance...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 294 p. Introduction: Technology and the Human Psyche. Imperial German Precedents, 1890–1918. Zeppelins in International Politics, 1919–21. Zeppelin Reborn in America, 1922–24. Airships in International Political Competition, 1924–28. International Airship Hubris and Adversity, 1928–30. A Buffeting for German and American Airships, 1931–35....
New York, NY : Ballantine Books, 2014. — 442 p., illus. From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation’s great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and...
Midland Publishing, Hinckley, UK, 2004. — 384 p. — ISBN: 1-85780-187-3 Established in 1934, the Ilyushin design bureau is one of the best-known Soviet/Russian aircraft design companies. Over the years, the Ilyushin OKB has developed aircraft for widely varying roles. Its first aircraft to achieve production status, the DB-3 bomber, entered service in 1936. The IL-2 (Shturmovik)...
Midland Publishing, Hinckley, UK, 2005. — 372 p. — ISBN: 1-85780-214-4 / 978 1 85780 214 6 A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft Yefim Gordon & Vladimir Rigmant The origins of the design bureau that was to bear his name can be traced back to the appointment of Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev as head of the TsAGI's Aviation Department in 1918. Over the years, nearly 300...
Midland Publishing, Hinckley, UK, 2005. — 384 p. — ISBN: 1-85780-203-9. Starting life in 1927, with Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev's first aircraft, the AIR-1, the OKB produced aircraft such as the Yak-4 light bomber, the Yak-6 light transport and the Yak-1 fighter. The latter paving the way for the highly successful Yak-3 and Yak-9. Post-war the Yak-15, -17 and -23 were...
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2002. - 440 p. ISBN: 0-7513-37323 (in English) History of aviation and astronautics over the last hundred years. Richly illustrated encyclopedia dedicated to the history of aviation. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, this volume of capsule histories and archival images traces the history...
Washington, New Imprint by Office of Air Force History United States Air Forct, 1985. — 162 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-25-0 When the debacle at Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into a war for survival, the nation marshalled its forces on land and sea and in the air. And although land, sea, and air forces all played vital roles in securing the triumph, the part of the air arm was...
Salamander Books, London, 1980, 160 p. — ISBN: 0861010558. A magnificently illustrated, compact directory of all the world's most important fighters and attack aircraft. 160 p., 40,000 words of text and data. Every aircraft accurately detailed. Fact-packed descriptions of 60 of the world's most exciting warplanes 120 action photographs most in full colour, 180 line drawings, 34...
Barron's, 2002. 192 p. — ISBN: 0764154230. In 2003, the world will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic first flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This handsome volume celebrates humanity's first century of aviation with lavish illustrations and an exciting chronological account of aeronautical development. Following the Wright brothers came a...
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-1557509390. Here, within one book, is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of man's attempts to design, develop and mass-produce airplanes and rotorcraft since 1852. More than 3,000 entries, illustrated with some 1,000 photographs, feature oddball contraptions and their eccentric designers, as well as the...
Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2012. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-1848859142. 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 cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton it was the ultimate in romantic,...
2nd edition, Airlife Publishing Ltd, Shrewsbury, England, 2001, 121 p., ISBN10: 1840370653, ISBN13: 9781840370652 A concise, highly detailed and superbly illustrated reference work to the most important combat aircraft in operation throughout the world today. With detailed text, full program and service details, plus complete type specifications, this volume provides the key...
London: Dorling Kindersley, 1994. — 36 p. An young aviator's addition to an exciting and informative series integrates lively text with full-color illustrations to draw the reader into the myriad of flying machines with a technical spread that details each part and its function.
SAE International, 1996. — 246 p. — ISBN: 1-56091-899-3. A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft Yefim Gordon & Vladimir Rigmant The origins of the design bureau that was to bear his name can be traced back to the appointment of Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev as head of the TsAGI's Aviation Department in 1918.
VDM Heinz Nickel; Auflage, 2006. — 308 s. Der offizielle Geburtstag der Bundeswehr war der 12. November 1955. Es folgte ein rasanter Aufbau der Streitkräfte. Innerhalb weniger Jahre entstanden in der Luftwaffe und bei den Marinefliegern Jet-Geschwader, die schnell durch Können und Leistung innerhalb der NATO-Gemeinschaft Anerkennung fanden. Zwischen dem Ende des Zweiten...
American Legacy Media, Clearfield, Utah, USA, 2007, 256 p. — ISBN10: 0976154757, ISBN13: 9780976154754. Originally published in 1957, this enduring classic the first-ever English publication cowritten by a Japanese suicide pilot remains a touching and insightful look into the world of the kamikaze. This edition, now completely revised, reflects the valuable insight and...
Duke University Press, 2002. 253 p. — ISBN: 0-8223-2812-7 (cloth: alk. paper), ISBN: 0-8223-2824-0 (pbk.: alk. paper). In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR 2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be...
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2014. XXVII, 525 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4652-2389-0. Lawrence (aviation law and legislation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U., Orlando, FL) is a retired attorney who specialized in transportation issues and holds a commercial pilot certificate. After an overview of transportation-related technological advances, he discusses landmarks and innovators...
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2014. XXVII, 525 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4652-2389-0. Lawrence (aviation law and legislation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U., Orlando, FL) is a retired attorney who specialized in transportation issues and holds a commercial pilot certificate. After an overview of transportation-related technological advances, he discusses landmarks and innovators...
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2014. XXVII, 525 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4652-2389-0. Lawrence (aviation law and legislation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U., Orlando, FL) is a retired attorney who specialized in transportation issues and holds a commercial pilot certificate. After an overview of transportation-related technological advances, he discusses landmarks and innovators...
Fifth edition. — New York - London: MC Graw - Hill Book Company, 1944. — 165 p. What Is a Helicopter? The Helicopter Comes or Act HistoricaL Perspecrive Helicopter Design Helicopters at War Helicopters in Commerce The Helicopter and You Social Impact Reconversion and Postwar Problems List of Organizations Engaged in Manufacture or Development of Helicopters Additionally posted...
Windom: John W. Mc Donald, 1997. — 277 p. — ISBN: 0-9669996-0-6. 936 drawings of American aviation. airships, autogiros, balloons, biplanes, flying boats, gliders, civilian light planes, civilian commercial, military from before WW I, all with original captions. The material in this book represents 27 years of Aircraft Year Book drawings, captions and charts. The work was...
Aero Series 40. — Aero Publishers; First Edition (January 1, 1991). — 136p. — ISBN-13: 978-0830635740. This book is for you if you are an airliner observer, historian, or modeler, or if you have any interest in the Boeing 747. It covers all variants of the 747 in use, including military and civil versions, both American and foreign. It discusses the origins of the design and...
Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. — 127 p. Many rewarding and some unrewarding experiences evolve from being the brother of a world-renowned figure. All close relations are extremely proud of the accomplishments and contributions of near and dear kin. Yet, none desire to bask in reflected glory. Wiley Post, in a short span of seven years, rose from a laborer in...
Santa Barbara - Denver - Oxford, ABC-CLIO Inc., 2005. — 317 p. — ISBN: 1-85109-493-8 Introduction to Weapons and Warfare Series The Origins of Flight and Military Aviation Military Aviation in World War I, 1914–1918 Reconnaissance and Auxiliary Aircraft Fighter and Attack Aircraft Bomber Aircraft Naval Aircraft Aircraft by Country Aircraft by Primary Role Aircraft in...
National Book Trust, India, 2006. – X, 101 p. — ISBN: 81-237-4390-4. In 1783, man soared into space, riding a hot-air balloon; as hot air is lighter than the air around us. Could an object, heavier than air, defy gravity and fly? In 1905, the Wright brothers found the answer and flew a machine heavier than air. That marked the beginning of the great aviation story. Since then,...
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. 80 p. — ISBN: 0385125615. Describes various types of planes used throughout the world and their various uses, from trade and cargo to passenger and space travel.
Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio (MNAE), 2015 p. — 169 p. — (Monografia de Aeronaves Coleccion №8). The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine monoplane. Introduced in 1949 by Piper Aircraft, it was developed from the Piper PA-11, and traces its lineage back through the J-3 to the Taylor E-2 Cub of the 1930s. In close to 40 years of production, over 9,000...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 130 p. — ISBN: 0850455316. In a symphony of immense, furious power, seven Merlin V-12 piston engines scream at the desert floor brushing just feet beneath at 400 mph. It is a sound that courses through the spectator for the rest of his or her life. On the next pages are the sights of the 1982 Reno Air Races, an outrageous annual event that has somehow...
Aviatic Verlag, 1989. 169 S. — ISBN: 3-925505-08-3. Der Flugzeugkonstrukteur und Unternehmer Ernst Henkel war eine der gro#223;en Pioniergestalten der Luftfahrtgeschichte. Zu seinen weltweit anerkannten Leistungen geh#246;ren die He 70 aus dem Jahr 1932, das damals schnellste Verkehrsflugzeug der Welt, oder die He 100, mit der 1939 erstmals der Geschwindigkeits-Weltrekord nach...
Specialty Press, North Branch, MN, 2010, 163 p. — ISBN10: 1580071465, ISBN13: 9781580071468. Although the years from 1952 to 1962 saw the rise and dominance of luxurious piston-powered airliners like the Douglas DC-7, Lockheed Constellation, and Boeing Stratocruiser, revolutionary new jet airliners soon rendered them obsolete. Aircraft like the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, and...
Monograph. - The History Press, 2012. - 316 p. - In English A comprehensive history of the development of the airship, appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader. Examining the history and development of the airship from its humble beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its current role as military command posts among other purposes, this book provides a...
Midland Publishing, 2006, 176 p. — ISBN10: 1857802330, ISBN13: 9781857802337. Though there has been much speculation on whether flying saucers and the aliens who allegedly favor such craft have any basis in reality, it is a fact that over the years a variety of experimental aircraft that could be described as "flying saucer" types have been developed in different countries...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — 280 p. As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, inefficient, and dangerous. They asphyxiated or got the bends at high altitudes; they fainted during high-G maneuvers; they spiraled to the ground after encountering clouds or fog. Their capacity to commit fatal errors...
Pen & Sword Aviation, 2012. — 386p. — ISBN: 9781399019651. —. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was almost certainly the most versatile Second World War Bomber. Apart from its bombing role in all theatres of operation, the B-24 hauled fuel to France during the push towards Germany, carried troops, fought U-boats in the Atlantic and, probably most important of all, made a vital...
Stamford: Key Publishing Ltd, 2015. — 116 p. One of the truly iconic jet airliners, the Vickers VC10 is superb example of British engineering that left a lasting impression on many; those who flew it as pilots, or in it as crew or passengers, those who worked on the initial design, manufacturing or maintenance programmes, or those many more who simply saw it in the skies. After...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-171715-4. "The Airplane" by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines that enabled humankind to defy gravity. A fascinating true account...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-171715-4. "The Airplane" by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the Museum of Flight in Seattle, is the definitive history of how we invented and refined the amazing flying machines that enabled humankind to defy gravity. A fascinating true account...
Putnam, 1968. — 318 p. It has always been considered extremely difficult to acquire information concerning Soviet aircraft and to some extent this is true, but much has been published in the Soviet Union, particularly about the transport type, and in recent years very full information has become available oon after a new type has appeared. In some cases very detailed...
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1988. 70 p. — ISBN: 0396091199. A history of dirigibles, describing the most famous of them, their accomplishments, and their fates.
Bison Books Limited, Greenwich, USA, 1982, 168 p. — ISBN: 0-86124-088-X. Covers the development of jet aircraft, up to the modern ones. Turbojet and turbofan-powered fighters of today are man-made meteors of destruction; the most formidable are capable of speeds of more than two-and-a-half times the speed of sound and possess incredible rates of climb of approximately 50,000...
Hertfordshire: MetroBooks, 2001. — 120 p. Man has challenged the rules of gravity, engineering, and design ever since he first set his sights on the sky. From the brilliantly strange to the strangely brilliant, this collection of flying machines represents some of the most unusual and unconventional vehicles ever to take to the air.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1979, 112 p. — ISBN: 0-684-16286-5. This book describes worlds Air Forces at the state they were in 1979. Very well illustrated. The protection of a nations land, its people and its resources has been of paramount importance for more than a thousand years. Today, that protection is more than just an army and its weapons. It comprises in many...
Chancellor Press, 1994, 152 p. — ISBN10: 1851525823, ISBN13: 9781851525829. Identifies military aircraft markings and camouflage from World War I to the present day, in pocket-sized form. Each illustration has been selected to show how the markings and colour schemes have evolved and how they were influenced by the aircraft's military role and mission capability. An illusirated...
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