The Road to Kitty Hawk

The Road to Kitty Hawk
Title The Road to Kitty Hawk PDF eBook
Author Valerie Moolman
Publisher
Pages 186
Release 1980
Genre Transportation
ISBN 9780809432608

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Highlights many obscure scientists and inventors, with special focus on the Wright brothers, on the road to manned flight.

Women Aloft

Women Aloft
Title Women Aloft PDF eBook
Author Valerie Moolman
Publisher Time Life Education
Pages 176
Release 1981-01-01
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780809432882

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Looks at the accomplishments of early women aviators and describes the obstacles they had to overcome to become flyers

Air Power

Air Power
Title Air Power PDF eBook
Author Stephen Budiansky
Publisher Penguin
Pages 529
Release 2005-03-29
Genre History
ISBN 1101118407

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No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare. On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/

Race for the Sky

Race for the Sky
Title Race for the Sky PDF eBook
Author Dan Gutman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 192
Release 2003-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0689845545

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic flight, Gutman delivers the fictional diary of a boy who helps the Wrights' build their flying machine, giving a new perspective to the historical events. Illustrations.

The First Aviators

The First Aviators
Title The First Aviators PDF eBook
Author Curtis Prendergast
Publisher Time Life Education
Pages 176
Release 1980
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780809432646

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Follows the careers of early fliers, including the Wright brothers, Louis Bleriot, Glenn Curtiss, Anthony Fokker, and Igor Sikorsky, and describes the impact of aviation on the public imagination

The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts
Title The Aeronauts PDF eBook
Author Donald Dale Jackson
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1980
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN

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An account of ballooning from the late 18th century to the present.

First to Fly

First to Fly
Title First to Fly PDF eBook
Author Charles Bracelen Flood
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 269
Release 2015-06-02
Genre History
ISBN 080219138X

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“The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.” —Tampa Bay Times In First to Fly, lauded historian Charles Bracelen Flood draws on rarely seen primary sources to tell the story of the daredevil Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand of heroism before the United States entered the Great War. As citizens of a neutral nation from 1914 to early 1917, Americans were prohibited from serving in a foreign army, but many brave young souls soon made their way into European battle zones. It was partly from the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, and with the sponsorship of an expat American surgeon and a Vanderbilt, that the Lafayette Escadrille was formed in 1916 as the first and only all-American squadron in the French Air Service. Flying rudimentary planes, against one-in-three odds of being killed, these fearless young men gathered reconnaissance and shot down enemy aircraft, participated in the Battle of Verdun and faced off with the Red Baron, dueling across the war-torn skies like modern knights on horseback. “First to Fly shows us that there was something noble and honorable about the Escadrille, men who did not turn against their own country but put their lives up to fight for a cause, not because they had to but because it was the right thing to do.” —The Wall Street Journal