Double Eagle II has landed! / Ben L. Abruzzo with Maxie L. Anderson and Larry Newman -- Poor aviator lay dying / Anonymous -- Tom Swift in dire straits / Victor Appleton -- Man's first flight / Marquis D'Arlandes -- Aviation or flying? Take your pick / Richard Bach -- It's just the way it is / H. E. Bates -- Billy Barker's brand of attack / William A. Bishop -- Education of a test pilot / William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard -- Wings / Kevin Brownlow -- On aerial navigation / George Cayley -- Progress in flying machines / Octave Chanute -- Wheelbarrow with wings / Francis Chichester -- Armchair astronauts / Arthur C. Clarke -- Homeward bound from the moon / Michael Collins -- Secret of the Wrights / Harry Combs with Martin Caidin -- Death of an old man / Roald Dahl -- Three flight commanders / Len Deighton -- "I am not a very timid type..." / Jimmy Doolittle -- Courage / Amelia Earhart -- Avenger / Rene Fonck -- Balloons over Paris / Benjamin Franklin -- Erotic roots of aviation / Sigmund Freud -- Masterpiece / Ernest K. Gann -- Earth orbit / John H. Glenn, Jr. -- Baptism of fire / James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff -- Crazy over Bologna / Joseph Heller -- Blossoms in the wind / Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau -- Those daredevil stunts of yesteryear / Duke Krantz -- Three secrets of human flight / Wolfgang Langewiesche -- Flight of birds / Leonardo Da Vinci -- Problem of flight / Otto Lilienthal -- Glass-bottomed bucket / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Flying blind over the Atlantic / Charles Lindbergh -- Flying in the face of nature / Gavin Lyall -- High flight / John Gillespie Magee, Jr. -- Why do they become astronauts? / Norman Mailer -- Deltoid pumpkin seed / John McPhee -- Milk run / James Michener -- Kind of men to make into pilots / Billy Mitchell -- "Oh, the humanity!" / Herb Morrison -- Fall of Icarus / Ovid -- Leonardo and the mysteries of flight / William Barclay Parsons -- I flew with the birds / Harald Penrose -- Balloon hoax / Edgar Allan Poe -- How to do an outside loop / Tex Rankin and Phil Love -- April, bloody April / Manfred Von Richtofen -- "He died the most glorious death" / Kiffin Rockwell -- Below the sea of clouds lies eternity / Antoine De Saint-Exupery -- Flying machines in the future / Scientific American -- When death flew the mails / Robert L. Scott -- Moon landing / C.P. Snow -- Lincoln Beachy / Richard F. Snow -- Not a woman pilot, just a pilot / Elinor Smith Sullivan -- Alcock and Brown fly the Atlantic / Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas, Jr. -- Greatest man in the world / James Thurber -- Millionth chance / John Toland -- My first airplane / H.G. Wells -- Solo / T.H. White -- December 17, 1903 / Orville Wright -- Fractious horse / Wilbur Wright -- Irish airman foresees his death and welcomes it, too / William Butler Yeats -- Our phenomenal first flight / John Young and Robert Crippen.
Summary:
Contains over 60 articles on aviation history, lore, techniques, literature, and people.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.