History

Colorful book examines the duties bushplanes help carry out around the world and the development of the greatest example...

Chronologically and interwoven story, with hundreds of archival photos and exhibits, tells "what actually happened" with the Wrights, Glenn Curtis...

Travel Air achieved worldwide fame by 1929 as a builder of high quality commercial biplanes and monoplanes. Eve...

Fairchild's Golden Age A young Sherman Fairchild quit college in 1917 to start a company to ...

A San Francisco boy who grew up to become the greatest aviator of all time, Lincoln Beachey was a true pioneer. In the early years of aviation he...

Waldo Dean Waterman first flew in San Diego in 1909; he last flew in 1972. He was with Curtiss at North Island when he co-founded U.S. Naval Aviat...

The Atlantic had proved a graveyard for many ships, and when the first butterfly craft began to fly it after the World War I, a...

Nostalgic look at the Golden Age of personal flight, when incredible aircraft of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s we...

Since the first edition of X-Planes at Edwards (0-87989-85-0) was published in 1995, many new types of civilian (Rutan-types, 717 and 777), mil...

Peter Bowers is a foremost aviation historian and author. His byline has appeared hundreds of times as Peter Bowers...

BELLANCA's GOLDEN AGE Traces G.M. Bellanca coming from Sicily to America as a teenager in 1911 through his 42 years of ...

In 1909 municipal authorities built an airfield in northern Italy and invited the world's leading aviators to compete. The show attracted thousand...

Ready to buy a new or pre-owned Cessna? This updated second edition includes (1) original in-depth info about older Cessna models (...

November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut t...

Chasing Icarus: Seventeen Days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation by Gavin Mortimer. Those magnificent men in their fly...

By: John C. Swick This is the history of the Stinson 108 series airplane (the Voyager), although the 105, 10 and 10A, as well as the L-5, are a...

For five weeksfrom April 14 to May 21, 1927the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that ...

A recollection of the shattering days during World War II when, though the fall of France was imminent, a handful of French pilots continued to...

Flying bombers during World War II was a harrowing ordeal. Unlike the fighter jocks, who pit their skill and wits against each other in agile ae...

Filled with rare photographs and featuring accounts written by the Wright Brothers themselves, this fascinating firsthand history covers the br...

In the beginning of the twentieth century, women were demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom than a chance to fly? Women went up...

In March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and...

This is the history of Alaskas last legacy airline, Alaska Airlines, which transformed from a single-aircraft bush operator in 1932 to a major ...

In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina ...