History

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...

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 ...

Capt. Jepp and the Little Black Book Flint Whitlock & Terry L. Barnhart How barnstorming aviator and mail pilot Elrey B. Jeppesen mad...

Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilatio...

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 ...

And Other Extraordinary Characters in the History of Flight The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling ...

Flight Patterns A Century of Stories about Flying Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few v...

Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasnt. John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same...

Perch next to the first man to fly over Grand Rapids and share the spine-tingling thrills of wing-walker Ormer Locklear. Learn how barnstormer Fis...

No greater saga of the Northland was ever recounted than the experiences of the survivors of the Gillam plane crash. In "Hearts of ...

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...

Aviation Century: The Golden Age is filled with tales of romance and adventure, of daring and bravado, as pilots break records, astound the public...