Boyne, Walter J.

Contains entries that provide information about significant individuals, events, weapons, industries, strategies, and tactics in the nearly two hundred-year history of international airpower, arranged alphabetically from A-to-L, and includes cross-references, photographs, diagrams, and maps.

A comprehensive look into the strategies, technological advances, and heroism of World War II's battles at sea.

Examines flight and aerodynamics, various types of airplanes, commercial flight patterns and supersonics.

Explores the development of air-power philosophy over the course of the twentieth century, examining historic events that demonstrate how air power has influenced events in war, politics, diplomacy, technology, and mass culture.

A history of human flight, from man's oldest dreams, through the World Wars which generated rapid advances in aviation, to the present jet age.

Chronicles the rapid evolution of aviation technology and focuses on the meaning of flight for the human spirit.

Examines the design and technological advances of automobiles and gives insight into the people who create them.