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

Architecture of Transportation

Planes, trains, automobiles—how does the task of keeping people moving affect buildings?

The ATL-98 Carvair: A Comprehensive History of the Aircraft and All 21 Airframes

by William Patrick Dean

Come fly with me—and bring your car along! Or a whale (no kidding)! That’s what the Carvair made possible. A good idea—but what happened to it?

Ultimate Spitfires

by Peter Caygill

This book looks at the later marks of the famous airplane and their special modifications.

On and Off the Flight Deck: Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II

by Henry A Adlam

If your eyes are glazing over at being proffered yet another memoir of WWII flyboy derring-do, relax, this one is different.

Why Not? The Story of the Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls

by David Baines

From ballooning to motor racing to seeing to it that Great Britain should have the capability of building a truly great car, Rolls did a whole lot more than he is remembered for today.

Frontline and Experimental Flying with the Fleet Air Arm

by Geoffrey R Higgs

A British naval flyer relates his 35 years of service at the controls of 100 different aircraft, from single-engine propeller plane to multi-engine jet.

Fall of Eagles, Airmen of World War One

by Alex Revell

By portraying the men at the controls, and using their own voices real and imagined, this book hits a nerve that dry stats do not.

Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two: A Global Guide to Location and Types

by Don Berliner

Some 4000+ of around 750,000 aircraft built for WWII survived—this first of three books offers a guided tour of what they are and where they are.

The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane

by Piers Bizony

In the summer of 2011 NASA’s only sustained space flight program came to an end after three decades and 135 flights. This book is essentially a lavishly illustrated retrospective of the missions and orbiters.

Eagle: Henry Royce’s First Aero Engine

by Derek S. Taulbut

This excellent book details the development process of Rolls-Royce’s WWI V-12 aircraft engine of complex design, extraordinary power, and uncommon reliability.

Engines and Enterprise: The Life and Work of Sir Harry Ricardo

by John Reynolds

Ricardo’s education at the privileged schools of Rugby and Cambridge, coupled with his undying love for all things mechanical, propelled him on a career path to become one of world’s leading authorities in engine research and development.

The Airplane: A History of Its Technology

by John D Anderson Jr.

Almost all such books begin with the Wright brothers—not the first to fly and certainly not the inventors of the airplane—and it is ironic to consider that none other than Wilbur W. once ruminated, in a fit of despair: “Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!”

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