Archive for Items Categorized 'Aviation', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
One of a Kind Research Aircraft
by Steve Markman & Bill Holder
This book was the first to introduce to the general public some of those aircraft that were hardly known outside the professional community of aircraft developers and testers. Not the headline-grabbing experimental planes but the workhorses that test everything from the durability of paint to new science.
Women Aviators
by Karen Bush Gibson
Among the 26 flyers this book for young readers portrays are many unusual choices, but they are probably representative of the obstacles their gender had to contend with.
Military, Naval and Civil Airships Since 1783
by Daniel George Ridley-Kitts MBE
Big topic, small book—but very nicely done and useful to both the casual reader and the ardent enthusiast. Airships were the first aircraft capable of controlled powered flight and knowing how they work is an essential bit of knowledge.
McDonnell Douglas F-4e/EJ/F/G/RF-4E Phantom II
by JP Vieira
A new reference book for modelers about an aircraft for which an extensive paper trail exists. Highlighted here are lesser-known and visually striking examples.
Adventurous Empires: The Story of the Short Empire Flying Boats
by Phillip E. Sims
It was the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built, a majestic, beautiful aircraft. It made the world a smaller place and played a role in peace and war.
Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in World War I
by Clive Semple
“I must now enjoy myself and not worry, otherwise I shall get nerves and that won’t do.” Far more than merely the story of a pilot, this is a glimpse of the world through the eyes of a young man with hopes, illusions, and—luck.
Spitfire In Sweden
by Mikael Forslund
How the Swedes got their Spitfires (postwar) is one of those on again/off again stories, but, given what use they were put to, it may have kept the Cold War a degree cooler.
American X & Y Planes: Volume 1: Experimental Aircraft to 1945
by Kev Darling
Many of the aircraft in this book may not be terribly well known but without them the planes that we do know would probably have not come about. In other words, trial by error.
The Fairey Barracuda
by Matthew Willis
Meet the “most reviled aircraft of WW II.” And find out why things aren’t as bad as all that. It did stay in service until the mid-1950s so it must have done something right!
Soviet and Russian Ekranoplans
Sergey Komissarov & Yefim Gordon
Duck and cover—lest a giant flying ship blows you over! These exotic things have been around on paper since the 1920s and in flight since 1935 but you still get a look of disbelief. Their day may come again.
Rocket Development with Liquid Propellants
by W H J Riedel
In 1939 the author became Chief Designer at the V-2 rocket development center. Prior to that, he helped early German rocket designer Max Valier develop a series of CO2 and liquid oxygen-alcohol rocket engines and rocket-driven cars to promote Heylandt products.
British Aviation Posters: Art, Design and Flight
by Scott Anthony and Oliver Green
Illustrated with advertising posters and photos, this book explores the 90-year history of Britain’s national airline from rickety biplane to the Concorde and its place in the world.
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