aeronautics

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aeronautics

I want to be a pilot

1999
Photographs and text describe the work of airplane pilots.

The Pathfinders

1980
Contains chapters entitled: The Lure of the Mighty Atlantic; Revving up for Paris; Tragedy and Triumph; The Long Reach to Australia; Globe-Girdler from Oklahoma.

The Road to Kitty Hawk

1980
Contains chapters entitled: In Search of the "Infinite Highway"; The Scientific Visionaries; Learning to Ride the Wind; The Bishop's Inventive Sons; Countdown at Kill Devil Hills.

The First Aviators

1981
Contains chapters entitled: Rediscovering the Secrets of Kitty Hawk; The Great Show at Rheims; The High-Risk Pursuit of Gold and Glory; The Wrights vs. the World; Marshaling Aviation for War.

Dawn over Kitty Hawk

a novel of the Wright brothers
2003

Flying machines

1994
This book examines the science and technology behind flying machines and explores flying's impact for good and bad on everyday life.

Aviation

an illustrated history
1978

The story of Alcock and Brown

1998
An account of the first flight over the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to England, made in 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown.

The Wright Brothers

1996
The story of the American inventors who were the first to attain power-driven, heavier-than-air flight.

The Wright Brothers

Graphic Biographies
2006
Includes bibliographical references.

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