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Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers : Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them
Michael Abrams
Paperback - $23.95
The Wright Brothers were wimps.
Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals— the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds.
People hav ...
At the Controls : The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Book of Cockpits
Tom Alison
Paperback - $41.95
This is perhaps the finest collection of cockpit photographs in existence. The Museum (NASM) holds the world's premier collection of historic aircraft, but visitors to the museum must maintain a respectful distance. In At the Controls, NASM photograp ...
The Story of the Airship
Hugh Allen
Paperback - $54.95
Originally published in 1931, this is the story of the lighter-than-air ship. It is not generally known that the first passenger-carrying flight was made in 1783, more than a century before the Wright brothers - or that flying really began with light ...
Aviation : The Early Years/Di Engange Der Luftfahrt/Les Premieres Annees de L'Aeronautique
Peter Almond
Hardcover - $62.95
The Complete Encyclopedia of Flight 1945-2006
John Batchelor
Hardcover - $21.95
All the individual aircraft described here are pictured in one or more drawings by the world famous technical artist John Batchelor, and their stories are outlined in informative text and specifications by renowned aviation historian Malcome V. Lowe.
World War II Fighter Planes : 24 Cards
John Batchelor
Paperback - $11.95
Twenty-four different Allied and Axis fighter planes shown in action during the battle for air supremacy during World War II--all dramatically and accurately rendered. Includes the Republic P47D Thunderbolt, Spitfire Mk.XIVC, Grumman F6F Hellcat, Cur ...
Douglas Twinjets DC-9, MD-80, MD-90 and 717
Thomas Becher
Hardcover - $89.95
In this book Thomas Becher describes the background, design, development and use of these popular and easily recognizable aircraft, from their origins in the 1960s to the present.
America's Airports : Airfield Development, 1918-1947
Janet R. Daly Bednarek
Hardcover - $86.95
Across the country, Americans take for granted the convenience of air flight from one city to another. The federal role in managing air traffic and the cooperative corporate planning of major airlines mask to some degree the fact that those airports ...