Archive for Items Categorized 'Aviation', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton

by Benjamin J. Burns 

Quick: who was the first to cross the Atlantic by plane? If you said Lindbergh, or Earhart, you’d better read this book!

GHOSTS 2026 Calendars, The Great War & A Time Remembered

by Philip Makanna

You’ve had over four decades to discover these splendid calendars; if you still haven’t, read this. And take a photography class.

Spitfire Manual
 1940

by Dilip Sarkar (Editor)

From the “Forget-Me-Nots for Fighters” to many other instructional booklets and manuals for pilots of the famous Supermarine Spitfire, this book gathers many oddities not normally seen by outsiders.

Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe in Profile

by Daniel Uhr and Dan Sharp

Building upon earlier, similar books this one introduces new or refined data and interpretations of German jet-propelled military aircraft designs into the record, especially regarding the historical context of their development.

A Technical & Operational
 History of the Liberty Engine: Tanks, Ships and Aircraft 1917–1960

by Robert J. Neal

One of history’s most famous engines, and very possibly the one with the longest active military service life, the Liberty represents an ambitious and visionary solution to what could have become an intractable problem: too much creativity resulting in too much incompatibility.

The VanDersarl Blériot: A Centenary Celebration

by Javier Arango & Philip Makanna

This spindly French machine made aviation history when it became the first heavier-than-air aircraft to cross the English Channel. Two American youngsters got excited. So they decided to build their own. It still flies, more than a hundred years later. See it here.

Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub

A Flying Memoir

by Peter Egan

A memoir of a 7000-mile flight across the US in a 1945 Piper. It took place 40 years ago, a boom time for private aviation in the US.

Secret US Proposals of the Cold War: Radical Concepts in Military Aircraft

by Jim Keeshen

A very different look at aircraft proposals: photos of the models and illustrations that were created to demonstrate the ideas to planners and prospective buyers.

Albatros Fighter Aircraft of WWI

by Dave Douglass

Get those paintbrushes out! This book is for modelers—or anyone who is just insatiably curious.

Flying Boat Pilot in War and Peace, Disaster and Survival

The Extraordinary Life of Captain M.J.R. ‘Roly’ Alderson

by Mark Alderson

From learning on an Avro Lynx biplane—six months after Lindbergh’s solo Atlantic crossing—to leading BOAC’s “Comet Development Unit” this book covers the whole arc of aviation development.

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle: The Man Who Invented the Turbo-jet

by Robert L. Evans

High speed, long range, high altitude—there was a time when aircraft couldn’t achieve any of these let alone all. Whittle developed a theoretical solution, but the materials didn’t yet exist to actually build an engine. Besides, no one thought his scheme was practical. Or so they said.

Building Dutch Air Power in World War II

The Role of Lend-Lease and Aircrew Training in the United States

by Nicholas M. Sambatuk

When the Dutch lost territory to foreign invaders they sent their aircrews to the US to train. What makes the Dutch flying school different from any other is that it remained a fully autonomous Dutch base on foreign soil with limited interaction from American forces.

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