History

Over 250 rare photographs depict one of the greatest industrial feats of World War II: the massive production of American military aircraft. Ph...

Joe Crosson became a national hero between the world wars flying mercy missions in the North, including a dangerous search in a dark Siberian w...

Ever since aircraft changed the scope of the First World War, flight became both a passion and business in Riverside. Early barnstormers needed pl...

In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific, their f...

Beginning in 1939-40 with the German blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain, aircraft repeatedly turned the tide of war. Their worth was proved in m...

Enjoy the breathtaking beauty of the Lewis and Clark trail from an open cockpit plane as you float over the same route the Corps of Discovery tr...

Lt. William Diebold served in the Armys Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battl...

This book tells the complete, never before told story of Beech Aircraft's recognition of the need for a true light twin engine airplane in the mid...

Aviation History is an exciting full-color book that gives aviation enthusiasts a unique perspective on international aviation history. Each of th...

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...

In one of the most inexplicable and practically unknown homefront tragedies of World War II, three separate but eerily linked events left sixteen ...

This distinctive illustrated history brings to light the world of the Wright brothers at the dawn of aviation. The photographic details revealed a...

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...

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 ...