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According to the Preface: ‘This book makes no pretence of going minutely into the technical and scientific sides of human flight: rather does it deal mainly with the real achievements of pioneers who …

First published in 1915, from Every Boy’s Mechanical Library. ‘This work is not intended to set forth the exploits of aviators nor to give a history of the Art. It is a book of instructions intended …

The seminal text on rocket science that foretold the Space Age “Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.” wrote Robert H. Goddard in 1920 …

In ‘The Early History of the Airplane’, readers are invited to explore the pioneering steps toward human flight through a collection that brilliantly amalgamates firsthand accounts, technical essays, …

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more …

The present volume on Mechanical Flight consists, as the title-page indicates, of two parts. The first, dealing with the long and notable series of early experiments with small models, was written …

Conspiracy theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the twentieth century. This account of the most intriguing loose ends from …

This book puts the reader in the pilot’s seat for a ‘day at the office’ unlike any other. The Smell of Kerosene tells the dramatic story of a NASA research pilot who logged over 11, 000 flight hours …

Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. He then went on to become an experienced pilot …

Was Keith Harris’s Orville really named after the first-ever flyer? What exactly is a ‘Spitfire’? Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an airline? These are …