Taylor, Richard L.

Explains the principles of flight and provides instruction in the actual mechanics of flying an airplane.

Text and photographs cover the life of American pilot Wiley Post and his record-setting solo flight around the world in 1933.

Text and photographs present a biography of the pioneering aviator, trained by the Wright brothers, who completed the first flight across the United States in 1911.

Describes the history and development of the Transcontinental Air Transport company.

The story of how the first human powered airplane was invented and how it was flown.

Describes how the Wright brothers developed the first airplane and places their achievement in the context of the aeronautic technology of the time.

A biography of air pilot Charles Lindbergh, focusing on his recordsetting transatlantic flight.

Tells the history of supersonic planes and of Chuck Yeager as the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Describes how, in 1986, an airplane was flown nonstop around the world without taking on fuel in flight.