aeronautics

Explains various types of airplanes and other flying machines, including gliders, passenger jets, helicopters, and hot-air balloons. Features transparent acetate overlays.

A photo essay tracing the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners. Includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.

Traces the history of air travel and the airlines from Jenny, the first airplane to carry mail, to the huge 747's of today.

Photos and easy-to-read text describe the job of piloting.

This illustrated history chronicles the rapid evolution of aviation technology, from the Wright Flier of 1903 to Paul MacCready's Gossamer Condor, from the first balloons to the Concorde.

This book answers specific questions concerning aviation from its beginning to the present with information on airships, helicopters, jets, spaceships, and more.

Discusses the history and future of machine-powered flight.

Highlights the exploits of the men and women involved in four decades of aviation beginning with the Wright brothers' flight in 1903 through the flight of the B-29 that carried the atomic bomb to Japan in 1945.