Search results for “[Subject: aviation-history]”

• Author(s): C. G. Sweeting • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often na...

• Author(s): Hart Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Most people recognize Wilbur and Orville Wright as the first in flight, in 1903, on the blustery sand dunes...

• Author(s): Roger E. Bilstein • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003The Nationa...

• Author(s): Don Berliner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History This is the history of air racing from its beginnings in 1909 at Reims, France, to the end of the 2008 racing ...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora!...

• Author(s): Benjamin J. Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Na...

• Author(s): Patrick M. Stinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect o...

• Author(s): E. R. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History This work is a comprehensive, heavily illustrated history of the many flying boats and amphibious aircraft de...

• Author(s): Lois K. Merry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II More than 2000 women in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union flew military airplanes in...

• Author(s): Donald M. Pattillo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The industry known as "general aviation"--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial...

• Author(s): David M. Young • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryFrom the dawn of flight, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy outpu...

• Author(s): William Neufeld • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II A unique and little-known chapter in World War II naval aviation history concerns the exploits of the ...

• Author(s): C. G. Sweeting • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Science The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that coul...

• Author(s): Billy D. Higgins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--bar...

• Author(s): E. R. Johnson | Lloyd S. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Models Among the world's military air arms, United States Marine Corps Aviation occupies a unique tactical nich...

• Author(s): Frank Joseph Rowe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extreme cont...

• Author(s): David Lee Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail ...

• Author(s): S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The hot air balloon has a fascinating history of much trial and error, scientific research and b...

• Author(s): William Patrick Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes a...

• Author(s): Robert A. Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.The introd...

• Author(s): Sandi Sumner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation Since the time of its inception, the field of aviation has rapidly grown in both importance and popularity. T...

• Author(s): John C. Fredriksen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation The North American B-45 Tornado was America's first jet bomber and was used in a number of vital missio...

• Author(s): Alfred F. Hurley • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Military"This is the best book--the most scholarly, the most judicial, the best written--about the intelligent, attractive,...

• Author(s): Wally Soplata • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Only in America could Walter A. Soplata, the son of penniless Czech immigrants, accomplish so much single-han...

• Author(s): Bruce H. Wolk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite...

• Author(s): Paul Hoffman • Publisher: Theia • Publisher Imprint: Theia • BISAC: Science & TechnologyOn the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the other man who was ...

• Author(s): Richard E. Eller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - Commercial Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines o...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is toda...

• Author(s): Andretta Schellinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world. Intended for ...

• Author(s): Robert M. White | Jack L. Summers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General In 1961, pilot Robert M. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster...

• Author(s): Chrystopher J. Spicer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. ...

• Author(s): Kenneth T. Walsh • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: Aviation - CommercialFrom the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Ai...

• Author(s): John Carver Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The six pioneers profiled here were promising graduates of the Wright Brothers' School of Aviation, which flourish...

• Author(s): Charles F. G. Kuyk | III Kuyk Charles F. G. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military ai...