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After building four of the most successful and famous air racers in the world, in the 1930s, Pete, Mike, Ike and Mr...

Are you ready to buy a new or pre-owned Piper? This updated second edition includes the original in-depth info about Piper models a...

Reviewed as "One of the most important books ever published." After studying how birds fly, Lilien- thal recognized the superiority of curved wing...

Columbus entered the air age early: the city was the destination for the worlds first air-cargo flight in 1910, the home of the worlds youngest li...

In this fascinating narrative history, internationally recognized military expert Martin van Creveld narrates the rise and fall of the most gla...

'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. "The Battle of Britai...

Hundreds of Iowans were involved in the military air services and on the home front during World War II, which was a huge impetus for aviation ...

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the...

The story begins in the fall of 1915, on the cusp of Americas entry into World War I. Aviation giant Glenn Curtiss sought a location where pilots ...

Since Otto Brodies airplane flight at Fair Park in 1910, the city of Dallas has seen over 100 years of rich and diverse aviation activity. Many of...

Maryland is home to a number of aviation firsts: the first manned balloon ascent in the Western Hemisphere in 1784, the first aircraft carrier dur...

Whiteman Air Force Base is located two miles south of Knob Noster. The base was activated following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, becoming ...

Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook The Lost Step-by-Step Schematic Drawings from the Pioneer of Steampunk Design Part...

The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and one Man's Fight for Redemption. March 8, 1990: An intoxicat...

In the Company of Heroes is a book by Michael Durant and Steven Hartov about Durant's experiences in the Battle of Mogadishu, Korea, the Persian G...

In the National Book Awardwinning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The ...

Paine Field was named in honor of hometown hero Topliff Olin Paine, an Army Air Corps pilot during World War I. Located 6 miles south of Everett...

Even before there were runways, the area south of the city of Seattle was Washingtons aviation hub. Charles Hamilton, a daredevil dubbed Crazy ...

High Times A History of Aviation Respected Berlin illustrators Golden Cosmos celebrate the cultural history of flight in the latest title f...

The "around the rim flight" is a classic example of an aerial accomplishment that has been often ignored in the multi-volumes chronicling aviatio...

Encompassing 27 square miles, Dallas/Fort Worth International is one of the worlds largest and busiest airports, accommodating more than 150,000 p...

The second volume of Iowa Takes to the Air (1919-1941) was published in 1986. Pilots, parachutists and wing-walkers entertained thousands of sp...

On a clear morning in 1912, Harriet Quimby had a vision--she would become the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel. If she were t...

Washington Dulles International Airport is one of the three major airports that transports passengers into and out of the Washington, D.C., metrop...