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

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

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

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/

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.

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

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