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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
First to fly	Thomas C Parramore	"Working with archival sources, newspapers, patent records, and personal accounts, Tom Parramore recounts North Carolina's significant role in the early history of aviation. Beginning well before the…	OL12330662W
Flight path	Paul Grescoe	How Westjet is flying high in Canada's most turbulent industry. Flight Path is a wonderful, lively account of the airline that "could" and "did".	OL15598097W
Before Amelia	Eileen F. Lebow	"Amelia Earhart is, without a doubt, the world's most famous woman aviator, but she was not the first. Dozens of women pilots were in the vanguard of early aviation more than a decade before Amelia l…	OL15834759W
Flight	Von Hardesty	Provides an overview of the principal stages in the history of flight, from animal flight and the first attempts to develop human flight to the present, and describes the invention of the various sys…	OL16554844W
Wings Over the Mexican Border	Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale	Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground—a remot…	OL1703538W
The Wright Brothers	David McCullough	Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly. On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North…	OL17077409W
Atlantic fever	Jackson, Joe	This work is an account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the fir…	OL17756159W
Flying the Atlantic	Peter Mellett	Discusses various aspects of a jet plane flight across the Atlantic, including checking in as a passenger, getting ready for takeoff, navigational activities of the crew, dealing with the weather, an…	OL1812360W
The big jump	Richard Bak,Jim Donovan	"The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and …	OL19669951W
Amazing stories of the space age	Rod Pyle	341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm	OL20047393W
Before the Wright brothers	Don Berliner	Describes the ideas and experiments that lead to the first powered flight by the 1903 "Wright Flyer."	OL2160701W
Famous First Flights That Changed History	Lowell Thomas, Sr.	Here are Bleriot, Byrd, Doolittle, Alcock, and Brown and the others—plus the 1965 round-the-world flight over both poles! Within a few miles of the famed chalk cliffs of Dover, horror-filled spectato…	OL2606292W
First Flight	George Shea,George Shea	A twelve-year-old boy named Tom Tate meets Orville and Wilbur Wright and witnesses the invention of the airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.	OL2918836W
The National Air and Space Museum	Florence Cassen Mayers	Thirty images from the collections of the National Air and Space Museum, representing the earliest days of aviation and the latest space exploration technology, illustrate the letters of the alphabet.	OL3005620W
For the greatest achievement	William Robie	A history of American aviation as viewed from the perspective of the two most influential organizations in the developing years of flight. This book explains some of the most misunderstood facets of…	OL4303740W
Getting off the ground	George Vecsey	Twenty-nine pioneer aviators discuss their experiences in the early days of flying.	OL4638434W
Forgotten eagle	Bryan B. Sterling	Wiley Post set records. In the summer of 1931 with navigator Harold Gatty he flew his single-engine airplane, the Winniw Mae, around the globe in a record-breaking eight days. Two years later he shav…	OL473184W
Flying fever	Sharon Holland	A brief history of airplane flight from early uses of planes in World War I to the realities of supersonic flight today.	OL5908329W
Men in the air	Hart, Roger	Text and illustrations trace the history of manned flight from the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci to jet engines and spacecraft.	OL6607762W
Aviation in Florida	Kevin M. McCarthy	Florida—land of perpetual sunshine, open spaces, and endless blue skies perfect for flying. Blimps, hot air balloons, bi-wings, jets, space shuttles—you name it: if you can fly it, you can fly it her…	OL8049536W