The Quest for American 

Aerospace Power 

October 2003 
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 

THE ACADEMY LIBRARIES 

USAFACADEMY, COLORADO 

80840-621 4 

INTRODUCTION 

This bibliography was compiled at the request of the Department of History in 

support of the 20t” triennial (previously biennial) Military History Symposium to be held at 

the United States Air Force Academy from 1 to 3 October 2003. The bibliography lists a 

selected portion of the Mcllermott (Cadet) 1,ibrary’s holdings on the American experience 

of manned powered flight during the twentieth century. Although rmlitary aviation has been 

a major component of that experience and is included, the majority of the materials listed 

here are not primarily military in focus. Furthermore, it was felt essential to include works of 

both European and American origin in the section on early aeronautics. 

than-air fight, and studes of rotorcraft. 

two previous Spe&l Bibliography Series publications: “Air Power and Warfare” (S.BS 59), 

compiled in September 1978, and “Air Power and Warfare: A Supplement” (SBS 79), 

compiled in February 2002. 

was compiled by Mr. Elwood L. White, Social Sciences and Humanities Librarian. 

Questions and comments about this addtion to the Special Bibliography Series may be 

addressed to Mr. White at: 

Excluded are newspaper articles, most pictorial works, works deahg with lighterFor treatment of American airpower during wartime, readers are advised to consult 

This bibliography, number 101 in the Mcllermott 1,ibrary’s .Speijal Ribliogruply Sen‘es, 

HQ USAFA/DFI,IB-REF 

Al’TN: Mr. Elwood L. Whte 

2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 3C9 

USAF Academy CO 80840-621 4 

For those libraries that are receiving this bibliography as a complunentary part of the 

McDermott Library’s Gifts and Exchange Program, we hope that this publication will be 

beneficial to you and your patrons. Libraries wishng to be added to the McDermott 

Library’s Gifts and Exchange Program may write to: Library Gifts and Exchange Program at 

the address shown above. 

Finally, if you are not a member of the Air Force Academy community and are 

attendmg this year’s Mhtary History Symposium, welcome to the Air Force Academy. We 

hope your visit will be professionally rewardmg and personally enjoyable. 

Edward A. Scott, Ph.D. 

Director of Academy Libraries 

September 2003 
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 

THE ACADEMY LIBRARIES 

USAF ACADEMY, COLORADO 

80840-6214 

INTRODUCTION 

This bibliography was compiled at the request of the Department of History in 

support of the 20t” triennial (previously biennial) Military History Symposium to be held at 

the United States Air Force Academy from 1 to 3 October 2003. ‘l’he bibliography lists a 

selected portion of the McIIerinott (Cadet) 1,ibrary’s holdings on the American experience 

of manned powered flight during the twentieth century. Although military aviation has been 

a major component of that experience and is included, the majority of the materials listed 

here are not prlmarily military in focus. Furthermore, it was felt essential to include works of 

both I Iuropean and American origin in the section on early aeronautics. 

than-air fight, and studes of rotorcraft. 

two previous .Ype&zl Bibliography Series publications: “Air Power and Warfare” (SBS 573, 

compiled in September 1978, and “Air Power and Warfare: A Supplement” (SBS 79, 

compiled in February 2002. 

was compiled by Mr. Elwood L. White, Social Sciences and Humanitles Librarian. 

Questions and comments about this addition to the Special Bibliography Series may be 

addressed to Mr. White at: 

Excluded are newspaper articles, most pictorial works, works deahg with lighterFor treatment of American airpower during wartime, readers are advised to consult 

This bibliography, number 101 in the McLIermott 1,ibrary’s S’eciul Hibliogmpiy Series, 

HQ USAFA/DFL,IB-REF 

ALTN: Mr. Elwood L. Whte 

2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 3C9 

USAF Academy CO 80840-6214 

For those libraries that are receiving this bibliography as a complunentary part of the 

McDermott Library’s Gifts and Exchange Program, we hope that this publication will be 

beneficial to you and your patrons. Libraries wishing to be added to the McDermott 

Library’s Gifts and Exchange Program may write to: Library Gifts and Exchange Program at 

the address shown above. 

Finally, if you are not a member of the Air Force Academy community and are 

attenlng this year’s Mhtary History Symposium, welcome to the Air Force Academy. We 

hope pour visit will be professionally rewarlng and personally enjoyable. 

Edward A. Scott, Ph.D. 

Director of Academy Libraries 

September 2003 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: INFRASTRUCTURE, LEGISLATION, AND RESEARCH 111111111111 111 1111111 22 

AERONAUTICAL TECHNOLOGY 11111111 I.II lllllllllkl*lllll 27 

AVIATION: THE BUSINESS AND THE INDUSTRY 1111111 36 

FLYING: ITS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EFFECTS II. I llsll 44 

CHARLES LINDBERGH I a I It I a I I I I ,., ,., I 11111111111111 52 

FAMOUS FLIGHTS 1111111111111,11111,1,111111 ,,, ,,, 56 

BIOGRAPHIES lllllllll,llllllll,l,,,,,lllllllllllllll. 60 

THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN MILITARY AIR POWER 11111111 64 

THE FUTURE lllllllllllllllll,llllllllll.llllllllll~ll 71 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES ,, ,,, lllllll.,,ll,,,,lll.l)llllllllll. 74 
REFERENCE WORKS 

Baker, David. Flight and Flying: A Chronology. New York: Facts on File, 1994. 

(Ref TLB 251 .B16 1994) 

Casari, Robert B. Encyclopedia of U. S. Military Aircraft. 2 parts in 6 vols. 

Chillicothe, OH: s.n., 1970- . (Ref UGH 3212 .C33) 

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. A Directory and Nomenclature of the First Aeroplanes, 

1809 to 1909. London: HMSO, 1966. 

(Ref TLB 258 .G44d) 

Green, William, and Gordon Swanborough, comps. An Illustrated Anatomy of the 

World’s Fiphters: The Inside Story of Over 100 Classics in the Evolution of 

Fighter Aircraft. St Paul: MBI Publishing, 2001. 

(Ref UGH 2163 .I287 2001) 

Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines: All Major Aircraft Power 

Plants, from the Wright Brothers to the Present Day. 4th ed. Somerset; 

Newbury Park, CA: P. Stephens; Haynes North America, 1998. 

(Ref TLE 27 .G876 1998) 

Irons-Georges, Tracy, James F. Marchman 111, and Heather S. Williams, eds. 

Encyclopedia of Flight. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Pr., 2002. 

(Ref TLB 191 .E56 2002) 

Leary, William M., ed. The Airline Industry. New York: Facts on File, 1992. 

(Ref TLG 5 1 .E56 1992) 

Lopez, Donald S. Aviation: A Smithsonian Guide. New York: Macmillan, 1995. 

(Ref TLB 251 .L86 1995) 

Munson, Kenneth. Pioneer Aircraft, 1903-1914. New York: Macmillan, 1969. 

(Ref TLD 45 1 .M96p) 

Smith, Myron J., Jr. The Airline Encyclopedia, 1909-2000. 3 vols. Lanham, MD: 

Scarecrow Pr, 2002. 

(Ref TLG 51 .S655 2002) 

Stoff, Joshua. Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft in the Cradle of Aviation Museum. 

Mineola, NY: Dover, 2001. 

(Ref TLB 75 .C884 S873 2001) 

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OVERVIEWS 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

American Heritage. The American Heritage History of Flight. Editor in Charge: Alvin 

M. Josephy Jr. New York: American Heritage, 1962. 

(TLB 25 1 .A5 1) 

Biddle, Tami. “Learning in Real Time: The Development and Implementation of Air 

Power in the First World War.” In Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty 

Hawk to Kosovo. Edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. London; Portland, 

OR: Frank Cass, 2002. 3-20. 

(UGK 27 .A298 2002) 

Bilstein, Roger E. Flight in America, 1900-1983: From the Wrights to the Astronauts. 

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984. 

(TLB 311 .B591 1984) 

Bishop, William A. Winged Peace. New York: Viking, 1944. 

(TLB 411 .B62) 

Brooks, Courtney G. American Aeronautics as Spectacle and Sport. Diss., 

Tulane U., 1969. 

(TLB 420 .B87) 

Bruno, Henry A. Wings Over America: The Inside Story of American Aviation. 

New York: McBride, 1942. 

(TLB 311 .B89 1942) 

Chant, Christopher. A Century of Triumph: The History of Aviation. New York: Free 

Press, 2002. 

(TLB 251 .C45912002) 

Christy, Joe. American Air Power: The First 75 Years. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: 

Tab, 1982. 

(UGH207 .C55 1982) 

----- . American Aviation: An Illustrated History. 2”d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: 

Tab AERO, 1994. 

(TLB 311 .C55 1994) 

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Davy, Maurice J. B. Air Power and Civilization. London: G Allen & Unwin, 1941. 

(UGK 21 .D26) 

Eliot, George F. Bombs Bursting in Air: The Influence of Air Power on International 

Relations. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. 

(UGK 21 .E34) 

Emme, Eugene M. The Impact of Air Power: National Security and World Politics. 

Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1959. 

(UGK 21 .E5) 

----- . Thoughts on Air Power as a Political Weapon. Maxwell AFB, AL: 

Air University, 1953. 

(UGK21 .E5t) 

----- , ed. Two Hundred Years of Flight in America: A Bicentennial Survey. San Diego: 

American Astronautical Society, 1977. 

(TLB 31 1 .T97) 

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. Aviation: An Historical Survey from Its Origins to the End of 

World War 11. 2nd ed. London: HMSO, 1985. 

(TLB 251 .G44a 1985) 

----- . Flight Through the Apes: A Complete, Illustrated Chronology from the Dreams of 

Early History to the Age of Space Exploration. New York: Crowell, 1974. 

(TLB 251 .G44f) 

----- . A History of Flying. New York: Praeger, 1954. 

(TLB 251 .G44 1954) 

----- . The Invention of the Aeroplane, 1799-1909. New York: Taplinger, 1966. 

(TLB 251 .G44i) 

Glines, Carroll V., Harry M. Zubkoff, and F. Clifton Berry Jr. Flights: American 

Aerospace.. .Beginning to Future. Montgomery, AL: Community 

Communications, 1994. 

(TLB 25 1 .G56 1 1994) 

Gorn, Michael H. Prophecy Fulfilled: 'Toward New Horizons' and Its Legacy. 

Washington: Dept of the Air Force, 1994. 

(Gov Doc D301.2:P 94/5; Report Lit MF ADA 305537) 

Grant, R. G. Flight: 100 Years of Aviation. New York: DK Publications, 2002. 

(TLB 251 .G7625 2002) 

3 
Guggenheim, Harry F. The Seven Skies. New York; London: Putnam’s Sons, 1930. 

(TLB 401 .G94) 

Heinmuller, John P. V. Man’s Fight to Fly: Famous World-Record Flights and a 

Chronology of Aviation. Rev ed. New York: Aero Print Co., 1945. 

(TLB 285 .H46 1945) 

Hodgins, Eric, and Alexander Magoun. Sky High: The Story of Aviation. Rev ed. 

Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. 

(TLB 251 .H68 1935) 

Ingells, Douglas J. They Tamed the Sky: The Triumph of American Aviation. 

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1947. 

(UGJ 1056.146) 

Leary, William M., ed. Aviation’s Golden Age: Portraits from the 1920s and 1930s. 

Iowa City: U of Iowa, 1989. 

(TLB 291 .A957 1989) 

Loening, Grover. “Fifty Years of Flying Progress.” In Smithsonian Treasury of Science. 

Edited by Webster P. True. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 1105-1 133. 

(Q 11 .S66) See also Smithsonian annual report for 1954 (Gov Doc SI 1.1:954) 

Magoun, F. Alexander, and Eric Hodgins. A History of Aircraft. New York; London: 

Whittlesey House; Mcgraw-Hill, 1931. 

(TLB 251 .M21) 

Milbank, Jeremiah Jr. The First Century of Flight in America: An Introductory Survey. 

Princeton: Princeton UP, 1943. 

(TLB 3 11 .M63) 

Miller, Francis T. The World in the Air; the Story of Flying in Pictures.. .First Historic 

Collection of Official Prints and Photographs from Government Archives and 

Private Collections Recording Five Thousand Years of Man’s Struggles to 

Conquer the Air. 2 vols. New York; London: Putnam’s Sons, 1930. 

(TLB 251 .M64) 

Moolman, Valerie, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. The Road to Kitty Hawk. 

Rev ed. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1981. 

(Oversize TLB 251 .M811 1981) 

Morris, Lloyd R., and Kendall Smith. Ceiling Unlimited: The Story of American 

Aviation from Kitty Hawk to Supersonics. New York: Macmillan, 1953. 

(TLB 3 11 .M87) 

4 
Nevin, David, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. The Pathfinders. 3rd ed. 

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1982. 

(Oversize TLB 31 1 .N52 1982) 

Roseberry, Cecil R. The Challenging Skies: The Colorful Story of Aviation’s Most 

Exciting Years, 1919-1939. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. 

(TLB 4 11 .R79) 

Serling, Robert J., and the Editors of Time-Life Books. The Jet Age. Rev ed. 

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life , 1986. 

(Oversize TLG 4 1 .S48 1986) 

Stewart, Oliver, Frank Howard, and Bill Gunston. The Conquest of the Air. 

New York: Random House, 1972. 

(TLB 25 1 .S95 1) 

Taylor, John W. R., and Kenneth Munson. History of Aviation. New York: 

Crown, 1972. 

(TLB 251 .T243) 

Thayer, Frederick C. Jr. Air Transport Policy and National Security: A Political, 

Economic, and Military Analysis. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Pr, 1965. 

(UGK 27 .T36) 

Thompson, Wayne, ed. Air Leadership: Proceedings of a Conference at Bollinn Air 

Force Base, April 13-14, 1984.. . .. Washington: Office of Air Force History, 

USAF, 1986. 

(Gov Doc D 301.96: LA6; Spec Coll UGB 5 .A658 1986) 

United States. President’s Air Policy Commission. Survival in the Air Age: A Report. 

Washington: GPO, 1948. 

(UGK 27 .A93) 

Wilson, Eugene E. On Eagle’ WinPs from Kitty Hawk to Sputnik. [Annapolis?]: U. S. 

Naval Academy Alumni Assoc, 1958. 

(UGK 21 .W740) 

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PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Air & Space/Smithsonian 17 (FebMar 2003): Special Issue entitled “100 Years of 

Flight.” 

Blizard, Jane B. “The Search for the Perfect Aircraft.” Science Digest 43 (May 1958): 

77-82 

Fortune 23 (Mar 1941). Entire issue devoted to air power, both military and commercial. 

Overy, Richard. “The Wheels - and Wings - of Progress.” History Today 42 (Sept 

1992): 21-27 

Robineau, Lucien. “On the Shoulders of Giants.” Aviation Week & Space Technology 

158 (Mar 24,2003): 65-68 

6 
EARLY AERONAUTICS 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Abbot, C. G. The 1914 Tests of the Langley “Aerodrome.” Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst., 1942. 

(TLD 626 .A12) From the 1942 Smithsonian ANNUAL REPORT 

(Gov Doc SI 1.1 :942) 

Aero Club of America. Navigating the Air; a Scientific Statement of the Propress of 

Aeronautical Science UP to the Present Time. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .A25) 

Bell, Alexander G. Aerial Locomotion. Washington: Washington Academy of 

Sciences, 1907. 

(Spec Coll TLB 400 .B43) 

Berget, Alphonse. The Conquest of the Air; Aeronautics, Aviation; History, Theory, 

Practice. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: Heinemann, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 25 1 .B49) English version of La Route de 1’Air (q.v.) 

----- . Une nouvelle Conquete de 1’Homme: 1’Air. Paris: Larousse, 1927. 

(Spec Coll QC 861 .B49) 

----- . La Route de 1’Air; ACronatiaue, Aviation; Histoire-Thkorie-Pratique. 

Paris: Hachette, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .B49r 1909) 

Berry, William H. Aircraft in War and Commerce. New York: Doran, 1918. 

(TLB 400 .B53) 

Brady, Tim. “Advancements in Powered Flight before World War I.” In The American 

Aviation Experience: A History. Edited by Tim Brady. Carbondale; 

Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 67-97. 

(TLB 31 1 .A512 2000) 

Cayley, George. Aeronautical and Miscellaneous Note-Book (ca. 1799- 1826) of Sir 

George Cayley with an Appendix Comprising a List of the Cayley Papers. 

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1933. 

(Spec Coll TLB 400 .C38 1933) 

7 
Chanute, Octave. “Aerial Navigation.” Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the 

Smithsonian Institution.. .for the Year Ending June 30, 1903. Washington: 

(Gov Doc Sl.l:903) 

GPO, 1904. 173-181. 

----- . Gliding Experiments. Chicago: s.n., 1897. 

(Spec Coli TLC 112 .C45) 

----- . Progress - in Flying Machines. New York: American Engineer and Railroad 

Journal, 1894. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .C45 1894) Library also has 1899 ed. 

----- . “Recent Progress in Aviation.’’ In Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the 

Smithsonian Institution.. .for the Year Ending June 30 1910. Washington: GPO, 

(Gov Doc SI 1.1:910) 

1911. 145-167. 

Collins, Francis A. The Air Man: His Conquests in Peace and War. New York: 

Century, 1917. 

(TLB 691 .C71) 

Crouch, Tom D. To Ride the Fractious Horse: The American Aeronautical Community 

and the Problem of Heavier-than-Air Flight, 1875-1905. Diss., Ohio State U., 

1976. 

(Spec Coll TLB 3 11 .C94) 

Curtiss, Glenn H., et al. The Curtiss Aviation Book. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 

1912. 

(TLB 400 .C98) 

Fairlie, Gerard, and Elizabeth Cayley. The Life of a Genius. London: Hodder and 

Stoughton, 1965. 

(TLB 290 .C38F) 

Ferris, Richard. How to Fly; or, The Conquest of the Air. London; New York: 

Nelson, 1910. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .F39) 

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. Sir George Caylev (1773-1857). London: H. M. S. O., 1968. 

(TLB 290 .C38G) 

----- . Sir George Caylev’s Aeronautics, 1796-1855. London: HMSO, 1962. 

(TLB 251 .G44s) 

8 
----- . The World’s First Aeroplane Flights, 1903-1908, and Earlier Attempts to Fly. 

London: HMSO, 1965. 

(TLB 258 .G44) 

Goupil, Alexandre. Aviation; Aerodynamique, les Secrets du Planement dt du Vol 

Rame, Appareils ACriens. Paris: J. Loubat, 1910. 

(Spec Coll TLD 209 .G71) 

----- . La Locomotion ACrienne. Charleville: A. Pouillard, 1884. 

(Spec Coll TLB 400 .G71) 

Graham-White, Claude, and Harry Harper. Air Power, Naval, Military, Commercial. 

New York: Stokes, 1917. 

(UGK 21 .G74 1917) 

Hayward, Charles B. Practical Aviation, an Understandable Presentation of Interesting 

and Essentials [sic1 Facts in Aeronautical Science. Znd ed. Chicago: American 

Technical Society, 1919. 

(Spec Coll TLB 535 .H42 1919) 

Hetherington, Norriss S. “The Langley and Wright Aero Accidents: Two Responses to 

Early Aeronautical Innovation and Government Patronage.” In Innovation and 

the Development of Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. College Station: 

Texas A & M UP, 1999. 18-51. 

Jackman, William J., and Thomas H. Russell. Flying Machines: Construction and 

Operation: A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and 

Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship. Chicago: Charles C. 

Thompson, 1910. 

(Spec Coll TLD 621 .J1) 

Jakab, Peter L. “Aerospace in Adolescence: McCook Field and the Beginnings of 

Modern Flight Research.” In Atmospheric Flipht in the Twentieth Century. 

Edited by Peter Galison and Alex Roland. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer, 2000. 

(TLB 405 .A881 2000) 

45-66. 

Langley, Samuel P. Experiments in Aerodvnamics. 2nd ed. Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst, 1902. 

(TLD 209 .L28 1902) Library also has lst edition, 1891. 

----- . Experiments with the Langley Aerodrome. Washington: GPO, 1905. 

(TLD 626 .L28) 

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----- . The Greatest Flying Creature. Washington: GPO, 1902. 

(Spec Coll TLD 18 1 .L28) 

----- . Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight. Edited by Charles M. Manly 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 191 1- 

(Spec Coll TLB 401 .L28) 

. 

----- . Researches and Experiments in Aerial Navigation. Washington: GPO, 1908. 

(Spec Coll TLD 75 .L28) 

----- . “Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight.” In Smithsonian Treasury of Science. 

Edited by Webster P. True. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 1056-1074. 

(Q 11 .S66) See also Smithsonian annual report for 1897 (Gov Doc SI 1.1:897) 

Laufer, Berthold. The Prehistory of Aviation. Chicago: [Field Museum of Natural 

History?], 1928. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .L37) 

Laurence, John. Sir George Cayley, the Inventor of the Aeroplane. New York: 

Horizon, 1962. 

(TLB 290 .C38P 1962) 

Lilienthal, Otto. Birdflinht as the Basis of Aviation; a Contribution towards a 

System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments 

Made by 0. and G. Lilienthal. Translated by A. W. Isenthal. London; 

New York: Longmans, Green, 191 1. 

(TLD 181 .L72; library also has 2001 reprint) 

----- . “The Problem of Flying” and “Practical Experiments in Soaring.” In Annual 

Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.. .July, 1893. 

Washington: 1894. 189-199. 

(Gov Doc SI 1.1:893; reprint: Spec Coll TLD 21 1 .L72) 

----- . Die Flugapparate. Allgemeine Gesichtspunkte bei Deren Herstellung und 

Anwendung. Berlin: Mayer & Muller, 1894. 

(Spec Coll TLC 112 .L72) 

----- . Uber Meine Fluczversuch. 1889-1896: Ausgewahlte Schriften. Edited by 

Klaus Kopfermann. Dusseldorf: VID-Verlag, 1988. 

(Spec Coll TLC 109 .L72 1988) 

----- . Der Vopelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst. Ein Beitrag zur Svstematik der 

Fluntechnik. Berlin: R. Gaertner, 1889. 

(Spec Coll TLD 181 .L72v 1889) Library also has 1910 and 1939 reprints 

10 
Lougheed, Victor. Aeroplane Designing - for Amateurs: A Plain Treatment of the 

Basic Principles of Flight Engieering- Including Heretofore Unpublished 

Facts Concerning Bird Flight and Aerodynamic Phenomena. Chicago: 

Reilly & Britton, 1912. 

(Spec Coll TLD 481 .L88) 

----- . Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with 

Working; Drawings. Znd ed. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. 

(Spec Coll TLB 535 .L88) Library also has lSt ed., 1909, and 1972 reprint 

Maxim, Hiram S. Artificial and Natural Flight. London; New York: Whittaker, 1908. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .M46 1908) Library also has 2nd ed., 1909. 

Meyer, Robert B., ed. Langley’s Aero Engine of 1903. Washington: Smithsonian 

Inst Pr, 1971. 

(TLE 121 .B19M) 

Modebeck, Hermann W. L. Pocket-Book of Aeronautics. Trans. W. Mansergh Varley. 

London: Whitaker, 1907. 

(Spec Coll TLB 535 .M69) 

Penaud, Alphonse. Alphonse Penaud’s Letters on Aeronautics. San Francisco: 

E. L. Sterne, n.d. 

(Spec Coll TLB 155 .P38) 

Pendergast, Curtis, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. The First Aviators. Rev ed. 

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1986. 

(TLB 251 .P92 1986) 

Rodriguez, Charles. “Developments before the Wright Brothers.” In The American 

Aviation Experience: A History. Ed. Tim Brady. Carbondale; Edwardsville, IL: 

Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 13-47. 

(TLB 3 1 1 .A5 12 2000) 

Rotch, Abbott L. The Conquest of the Air; or, The Advent of Aerial Navigation. 

New York: Moffat, Yard, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .R84) 

Scott, Phil. The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919. Reading, MA: 

Addison-Wesley, 1995. 

(TLB 251 .S4285 1995) 

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Seeley, Lyman J. Flying Pioneers at Hammondsport, New York. A Very Brief Outline 

of the History of “The Cradle of Aviation” and of the Work of Invention, 

Development and Demonstration of Aeroplanes Done There by Glenn H. 

Curtiss, Alexander Graham Bell, the Aerial Experiment Association and Their 

Associates between 1908-14.. . . Auburn, NY: Fenton Pr, 1929. 

(TLB 312 .N3 S4) 

Sir George Cayley. London: HMSO, 1968. 

(TLB 290 .C38G) 

Stout, William B. Acquiring - Wings: A Text on the Basic Principles Governing the 

Design and Operation of Modern Aircraft. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1917. 

(Spec Coll TLD 48 1 .S889 1917) 

Sunderman, James F. Early Air Pioneers, 1862-1935. New York: Watts, 1961. 

(TLB 291 .S95) 

Villard, Henry S. Contact! The Story of the Early Birds. Rev ed. Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1987. 

(TLB 251 .V71 1987) 

Walker, Thomas. A Treatise Upon the Art of Flying, by Mechanical Means, with a Full 

Explanation of the Natural Principles by Which Birds Are Enabled to Fly: 

Likewise Instructions and Plans, for Making a Flying Car with Wings, in 

Which a Man May Sit, and, by Working a Small Lever, Cause Himself to 

Ascend and Soar Through the Air with the Facility of a Bird.. . . Hull: J. Simmons, 1810. 

(Spec Coll TLD 209 .W17) Library also has 1814 and 1878 reprints 

Woodman, Harry. Early Aircraft Armament: The Aeroplane and the Gun Up to 1918. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1989. 

(UGK 821 .W65 1989) 

Zahm, Albert F. Aerial Navigation. Philadelphia: s.n., 1894. 

(Spec Coll TLB 154 1894 .Z2) 

----- . Aerial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on 

Aeronautical Meteorology. New York; London: D. Appleton, 191 1. 

(TLB 251 .Zl) 

----- . Aeronautical Papers, 1885-1945. 2 vols. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame, 1950. 

(Oversize TLB 155 .Zl) 

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PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Beach, Stanley Y. “How an Aeroplane is Built.” Review of Reviews 40 (Nov 1909): 

560-569 

Bell, Alexander G. “Aerial Locomotion.” National Geographic Magazine 18 (Jan 1907): 

1-34 Reprinted: Scientific American Supplement 63 (May 25, 1907): 26244- 

26246 

Chanute, Octave. “Aerial Navigation.” Popular Science Monthly 64 (Mar 1904): 385- 

393 

----- . “Recent Aeronautical Progress in the United States.” Aeronautical Journal 12 

(July 1908): 52-55 

Collins, F. A. “How It Feels to Fly.” Review of Reviews 40 (Nov 1909): 577-580 

Crane, John B. “Early Airplane Flights Before the Wrights.” Air Affairs 2 

(Winter 1949): 508-522 

Crouch, Tom D. “Local Hero: John Joseph Montgomery and the First Winged Flight in 

America.” Journal of the West 36 (July 1997): 21-28 

----- . “Octave Chanute and the Indiana Glider Trials of 1896.” AIAA Journal 35 

(May 1997): 769-775 

Harper, Harry. “Pioneer of Pioneers.” Flying 63 (July 1958): 26-27+ 

About Otto Lilienthal 

Hastings, George E. “Notes on the Beginnings of Aeronautics in America.” American 

Historical Review 25 (Oct 1919): 68-72 

Josselyn, Winsor. “He Flew in 1883.” Harper’s Magazine 181 (June 1940): 28-31 

About J. J. Montgomery 

Kingseed, Wyatt. “The First Airplane Fatality.” American History 35 (Feb 2001): 28-34 

Lanchester, F. W. “The Wright and Voisin Types of Flying Machine: A Comparison.” 

Aeronautical Journal 13 (Jan 1909): 4-12 

13 
Layman, R. D. “The Butler Ames Flying Machine of 1910.” American Aviation 

Historical Societv Journal 22(Winter 1977): 262-266 

Naughton, Thomas. “Birdmen at Belmont Park in 1910.” American Heritage 

7 (April 1956): 4-7+ 

Park, Edwards. “Langley’s Feat- and Folly.” Smithsonian 28 (Nov 1997): 30+ 

Tilford, Earl H., Jr. “The Barling Bomber.” Aerospace Historian 26 

(Summer/June 1979): 91-97 

Wicks, Frank. “First Flights.” Mechanical Engineering 122 (July 2000): 60-65 

14 
THE WRIGHT BROTHER§ 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Abbot, C. G. The Relations between the Smithsonian Institution and the Wright 

Brothers. Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 1928. 

(TLB 290 .W95A) 

L’ Akroplane des Fr6res Wright: Historique - Expkriences - Description: Avec une 

Plance de Dessins Originaux. Paris; Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1908. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .W42) 

Aycock, Brown. The Birth of Aviation, Kitty Hawk, N.C. Winston-Salem, NC: 

N. C. Collins, 1953. 

(TLB 290 .W9SBr) 

Baker, M. P. “The Wright Brothers as Aeronautical Engineers.” In Smithsonian Treasury 

of Science. Edited by Webster P. True. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 

(Q 1 1 S66) See also Smithsonian annual report for 1950 (Gov Doc SI .1:950) 

1075-1 104. 

Beringer, Sarah M. The Beginning and Future of Aviation. Dayton: 

S. M. Beringer, 1929. 

(TLB 312.03 B4) 

Bia, Georges. Les Frkres Wright et Leur Oeuvre.. .Rapport Prksente B la Section 

Akronautique de la Sociktk Bebe des Ingknieurs et des Industriels. 

Paris: F. L. Vivien, 1910. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .W9SB 1910) Library also 1909 ed. 

Bilstein, Roger E. The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus. Edited by 

Richard P. Hallion. Washington: National Air & Space Museum, 1978. 

(TLB 290 .W95Wr) 

Bracke, Albert. Construction et Manceuvres de 1’ACroplane Wright. 

Paris: F. L. Vivien, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLD 831 .W9 B7) 

Charnley, Mitchell V. The Boys Life of the Wright Brothers. New York; 

London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 

(TLB 417 .W9SC) 

1s 
Combs, Harry and Martin Caidin. Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the 

Wright Brothers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 

(TLB 290 .W95 C73) 

Crouch, Tom D. The Bishop's Boys: A Life of the Wright Brothers. New York: 

W. W. Norton, 1989. 

(TLB 290 .W9S C95 1989) 

----- and Peter L. Jakab. The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age, 

Washington: National Geographic; Smithsonian National Air and Space 

Museum, 2003. 

(Oversize TLB 290 .W95 C952 2003) 

Culick, Fred E. C., and Spencer Dunmore. On Great White Wings: The Wright 

Brothers and the Race for Flight. - New York: Hyperion, 2001. 

(TLB 290 .W95 C967 2001) 

Freudenthal, Elsbeth E. Flight into History: The Wright Brothers and the Air Age. 

Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma, 1949. 

(TLB 290 .W9Sf) 

Geibert, Ron. Early Flight 1900-191 1: Original Photographs from the Wright 

Brothers Personal Collection. Dayton: Landfall Pr, 1984. 

(TLB 81 .E12 1984) 

_____ . Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of 

Aviation: A Photographic History. Dayton: Wright State UP, 1990. 

(TLB 290 .W95 G31 1990) 

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. The Rebirth of European Aviation, 1902-1908: A Study of the 

Wright Brothers' Influence. London: H. M. S. O., 1974. 

(TLB 301 .E4 G44) 

----- . The Wright Brothers: A Brief Account of Their Work. 2nd ed. Edited by 

John A. Bagley. London: H. M. S. O., 1987. 

(TLB 290 .W9Sg 1987) Library also lSt edition, 1963 

Gollin, A. M. No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wripht Brothers, 1902-1909. 

Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1984. 

(TLB 318 .G62 1984) 

Harrison, Michael. Airborne at Kitty Hawk: The Story of the First Heavier-than-Air 

Flight Made by the Wright Brothers. London: Cassell, 1953. 

(TLB 290 .W95Ha) 

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Heppenheimer, T. A. First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the 

Airplane. New York; Chichester: Wiley, 2003. 

(TLB 290 .W95 H529 2003) 

Hildebrandt, Alfred. Die Bruder Wright: Eine Studie uber die Entwicklung der 

Flunmaschine von Lilienthal bis Wright. Berlin: 0. Elsner, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .W95H) 

Hobbs, Leonard S. The Wright Brothers’ Engines and Their Design. Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst, 1971. 

(TLE 121 .W9h) 

Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. New York: 

Knopf, 1987. 

(TLB 290 .W95 H84 1987) 

Jakab, Peter L. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of 

Invention. Washington: Smithsonian Inst., 1990. 

(TLB 290 .W95 J25 1990) 

Kelly, Fred C. The Wright Brothers.. .a Biography - - Authorized by Orville Wright. 

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943. 

(TLB 290 .W95k) Library also has 1944, 1950, & 1966 reprints 

Kirk, Stephen. First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina. 

Winston-Salem, NC: J. F. Blair, 1995. 

(TLB 290 .W95 K59 1995) 

McMahon, John R. The Wright Brothers, Pioneers of Flight. Boston: Little, 

Brown, 1930. 

(TLB 290 .W95M 1930) 

Meynell, Laurence. First Men to Fly. London: W. Laurie, 1955. 

(TLB 290 .W95Me) 

Nolan, Patrick B., and John A. Zamonski. The Wrinht Brothers Collection: A Guide to 

the Technical, Business and Legal, Genealogical, Photographic, and Other 

Archives at Wright State University. New York: Garland, 1977. 

(TLB 75 .W95) 

Peyrey, Francois. Les Premiers Hommes-Oiseaux: Wilbur et Orville Wright. New ed. 

Paris: H. Guiton, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .W95P 1909) Library also has 1908 ed: 

17 
Renstrom, Arthur G. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Chronology Commemorating the 

Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright, August 19, 187 1. 

Washington: Library of Congress, 1975. 

(TLB 290 .W95Re) 

_____ . Wilbur & Orville Wright, Pictorial Materials: A Documentary 

Guide. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. 

(Gov Doc LC 1.6/4:W93) 

Ritchie, Malcolm L. The Research and Development Methods of Wilbur and Orville 

Wright. Dayton: AF Inst of Technology, 1976. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 058 965) 

Tobin, James. To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. 

New York: Free Pr, 2003. 

(TLB 290 .W95 T629 2003) 

United States. Cong. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Dayton 

Aviation Heritage National Historic Preservation Act of 1991: Hearing .... Washington: G. P. O., 1992. 

(GOV DOC Y4.IN 8/14: 102-54) 

United States. Cong. House. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight. - 

Proceedings at the Exercises Held at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on December 17, 

1928, in Commemoration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the first 

Flipht of an Airplane Made by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington: 

G. P. O., 1929. 

(TLB 3 12 .N8 US) 

Walsh, John E. One Day at Kitty Hawk: The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers and 

the Airplane. New York: Crowell, 1975. 

(TLB 290 .W95w) 

Weiller, Lazare. De Montgolfier B Wilbur Wright: Compte Rendu de la 52e RCunion de 

la Socittd ArchCologique Le Vieux Papier le 22 DCcembre 1908. A Paris, Chez 

P. Flobert, 1909. 

(Spec Coll TLB 251 .W42) 

Wolko, Howard S., ed. The Wright Flyer: An Engineering Perspective. Washington: 

National Air and Space Museum, 1987. 

(Spec Coll TLD 751 .W95 1987; Gov Doc SI 9.2:W93/2) 

Wescott, Lynanne, and Paula Degen. Wind and Sand: The Story of the Wright 

Brothers at Kitty Hawk. New York: Abrams, 1983. 

(TLB 290 .W95 W52 1983) 

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Wright, Orville. The Early History of the Airplane. Dayton: The Dayton-Wright 

Airplane Co., 1922. 

(Spec Coll TLB 831 .W9 W9) 

Wright, Wilbur. Experiments and Observation in Soaring Flight.. .Printed in 

Advance of the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers. Vol 111, No. 4, 

August 1903. [s.l.], Chicago, 1903. 

(Spec Coll TLD 621 .W95) 

----- . Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Edited by 

Fred C. Kelly. New York: Arno, 1972. 

(TLB 290 .W95Km 1972) 

----- . The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright 

Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute. Edited by Marvin W. McFarland. 

2 vols. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1953. 

(TLB 290 .W95) 

----- . Photographs by the Wright Brothers: Prints from the Glass Negatives in the 

Library of Congress: - A Micropublication Commemoratinp the Seventy-Fifth 

Anniversary of the First Flight by the Wright Brothers, December 17, 1903. 

Washington: Library of Congress, 1978. 

(TLB 290 .W95 Al) 

----- . The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Edited by Peter L. Jakab 

and Rick Young. Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 2000. 

(TLB 290 .W95 P976 2000) 

----- . Twenty-Five Years Ago: How We Made the First Flight. Washington: 

International Civil Aeronautics Conference, 1928. 

(TLD 831 .W9 W9h) First published in the December, 1913 issue of 

Flying as “How We Made the First Flight.” 

Young, Rosamond M. Twelve Seconds to the Moon: A Story of the Wright 

Brothers. 2”d ed. Dayton: USAF Museum Foundation, 1983. 

(TLB 290 .W95 Y75 1983) Library also has lSt ed., 1978. 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

“Breaking the Ground Barrier.” Air & Space Smithsonian 1 (Feb/Mar 1987): 104-106 

19 
Combs, Harry, and Martin Caidin. “The Air Age Was Now.” American Heritage 

31 (Dec 1979): 45-60 

“Construction of the Wright Aeroplane.” Scientific American 99 (Sept 26, 1908): 208- 

210 

Crouch, Tom D. “The First Season at Kitty Hawk.” American Heritage 39 (April 1988): 

94- 105 

Culick, F. E. C. “Origins of the First Powered, Man-Carrying Plane.” Scientific 

American 241 (July 1979): 86-89+ 

Dickin, George. “Eyewitness Report from the Right Seat of the Wright Flyer.” 

Flying 116 (Oct 1989): 82-86 

Eckhardt, George H. “Work Sheets of the Wright Brothers.” Science Digest 50 

(Oct 1961): 7-12 

“The Experiments of the Wright Brothers.” Aeronautical Journal 8 (April 1904): 37-42 

Geibert, Ron. “The Wright Brothers- Engineers/Photographers.” American Aviation 

Historical Society Journal 29 (Winter 1984): 310-313 

Gibbs-Smith, Charles H. “How Wilbur Wright Taught Europe to Fly.” American 

Heritage 11 (Feb 1960): 60-63+ 

----- . “The Wright Brothers: The Family Background.” History Today 24 (Feb 1974): 

128-134 

Gollin, Alfred. “The Wright Brothers and the British Authorities, 1902-1909.” 

English Historical Review 95 (Apr 1980): 293-320 

Hooven, Frederick J. “Wright Brothers’ Flight Control System.” Scientific 

American 239 (Nov 1978): 166-168+ 

Johnson, Robert E. “The Race from ‘Point Zero:’ Curtiss vs Wright.” American 

Aviation Historical Society Journal 28 (Summer 1983): 82-92 

Johnston, Robert B. “The Wrights, the First Aeronautical Engineers.” American 

Aviation Historical Society Journal 23 (Winter 1978): 300-309 

Kelly, Fred C. “How the Wright Brothers Began.” Harper’s Magazine 179 

(Oct 1939): 473-484 

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----- . “They Wouldn’t Believe the Wrights Had Flown: A Study in Human 

Incredulity.” Harper’s Magazine 18 1 (Aug 1940): 286-300 

Langewiesche, Wolfgang. “What the Wrights Really Invented.” Harper’s Magazine 

200 (June 1950): 102-105 

Little, Charles E. “Appointment at Big Kill Devil Hill.” Air & Space Smithsonian 

2 (Aug/Sept 1987): 60-68 

Maxim, Hiram S. “The Recent Experiments Conducted by the Wright Brothers.” 

Aeronautical Journal 10 (July 1906): 37-39 

McIntyre, Doug. “Wings for Man.” American History Illustrated 28 (Jan/Feb 1994): 

30-43+ 

Miller, Ivonette. “Orville and Wilbur Wright: An Intimate Memoir.” Antioch Review 

34 (Summer 1976): 441-452 

Scott, Phil. “Wright v. Curtiss (Cont’d).” Air & Space Smithsonian 12 

(June/July 1997): 66-71 

Smith, Richard K. “Not a Success- But a Triumph: 80 Years Since Kitty Hawk.” 

Naval War Collepe Review 36 (NovDec 1983): 4-20 

Wright, Orville. “How We Made the First Flight.” Flving 2 (Dec 1913): 10-12+ 

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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: INFRASTRUCTURE, I,EGISLATION, 

AND RESEARCH 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Baals, Donald D., and William R. Corliss. Wind Tunnels of NASA. Washington: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 198 1. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:440) 

Bednarek, Janet R. D. “Innovation in America’s Aviation Support Infrastructure: The 

Evolving Relationship between Airports, Cities, and Industry.” In Innovation 

and the Development of Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. College Station: 

Texas A & M UP, 1999. 52-79. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

Bilstein, Roger E. Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915- 

1990. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:4406) 

----- . Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA. 

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003. 

(TLF 335 .B605 2003) 

Birthplace, Home and Future of Aerospace: The Evolution of Aeronautical Develoment 

at the Aeronautical Systems Center. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: 

The Center, 1999. 

(Gov Doc D 301.2:B53) 

Crouch, Tom D. “An Airplane for Everyman: The Department of Commerce and the 

Light Airplane Industry, 1933-37.” In Innovation and the Development of 

Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1999. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

166- 187. 

Douglas, Deborah G. “Three Miles a Minute: The National Advisory Committee for 

Aeronautics and the Development of the Modern Airliner.” In Innovation and 

the Development of Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. College Station: 

Texas A & M UP, 1999. 154-165. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

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Ethell, Jeffrey L. NASA and General Aviation. Washington: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, 1986. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:485) 

Glennan, Thomas K. The Birth of NASA: The Diary of T. Keith Glennan, Edited by 

J. D. Hunley. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 

1993. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:4105) 

Hallion, Richard. On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-198 1. Washington: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.2 1 :4303) 

Hansen, James R. Engineer in CharPe: A History of the Langley Aeronautical 

Laboratory, 1917-1958. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, 1987. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:4305) 

_____ . Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to 

Apollo. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:4308) 

Hunsaker, Jerome C. “Forty Years of Aeronautical Research.” In Annual ReDort of the 

Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.. .for the Year Ended June 30 

1955. Washington: GPO, 1956. 

(Gov Doc SI 1.1:955; reprint: Spec Coll TLD 41 .H93) 

Johnson, Stephen B. The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 

1945-1965. Washington: Air Force History & Museums Program, 2002, 

(Gov Doc D 301.82/7:C 89; UGH 5612 .J69 2002) 

Keller, Michael D. Fifty Years of Flipht Research: A Chronology of the Langley 

Research Center, 1917-1966. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, 1966. 

(TLD 75 .K2) 

Komons, Nick A. Bonfires to Beacons: Federal Civil Aviation Policy Under the 

Air Commerce Act 1926-1938. Washington: Federal Aviation 

Administration, 1978. 

(GOV DOC TD 4.2:B64/926-38) 

Leary, William M., ed. Pilots’ Directions: The Transcontinental Airway and its 

History. Iowa City: U of Iowa, 1990. 

(TLG 1221 .P64 1990) 

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----- . “The Search for an lnstrument Landing System, 1918-48.” In Innovation and 

the Development of Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. College Station: 

Texas A & M UP, 1999. 80-99. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

Misenko, Albert. Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate: The McCook Field Years 

(1917-1927). Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: AF Research Lab, 1995. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 350 388) 

NewMyer, David A, “Government and Aviation.” The American Aviation Experience: 

A History. Ed. Tim Brady. Carbondale; Edwardsville, lL: Southern Illinois UP, 

(TLB 3 1 1 .A5 12 2000) 

2000. 295-306. 

Powers, Sheryll G. Women in Flight - Research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center 

from 1946 to 1995. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 

1997. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.15:112715) 

Rochester, Stuart I. Takeoff at Mid-Century: Federal Civil Aviation Policy in the 

Eisenhower Years, 1953- 1961. Washington: Federal Aviation Administration, 

1976. 

(GOV DOC TD 4.2:T13/953-61) 

Roland, Alex. Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 

1915-1958. 2 vols. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 

1985. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:4103) 

Schlaifer, Robert, and Samuel D. Heron. Development of Aircraft Engines.. . Development of Aviation Fuels.. .Two Studies of Relations between 

Government and Business. Elmsford, NY: Maxwell Reprint, 1970. 

(TLE 22 .S33) First published 1950 

Schultz, James. Winds of Change; Expanding the Frontiers of Flight: Langley Research 

Center’s 75 Years of Accomplishment 1917-1992. Washington: National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration, [ 1992?]. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.83: 130) 

Schweikart, Larry. “Command Innovation: Lessons from the National Aerospace Plane 

Program.” In Innovation and the Development of Flight. Edited by 

Roger D. Launius. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1999. 299-323. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

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Shores, Louis. Highways in the Sky: The Story of the AACS. New York: Barnes & 

Noble, 1947. 

(D 790 .A2 A29s) 

Surgeoner, Robert F. The Military Airport Program: Air Power for Civil Aviation. 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1999. 

(Report Lit ADA 398 896) 

Trimble, William F. Wings for the Navy: A History of the Naval Aircraft Factory, 

1917-1956. Annapolis: Naval Inst., 1990. 

(VG 94.5 .N62 T75 1990) 

United States. Bureau of Air Commerce. The Federal Airways System. July 1, 1936. 

Washington: GPO, 1936. 

(Gov Doc C 31.102:24) 

----- . Bureau of Aircraft Production. History of the Bureau of Aircraft 

Production. 8 vols. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: The Bureau, 195 1. 

(UGH 207 .U56) 

----- . Langley Research Center. 1917-1992,75 Years NACA NASA Langley Research 

Center. Hampton, VA: The Center, 1993. 

(Gov Doc MFNAS 1.15:109691) 

Von Karman, Theodore. Where We Stand: A Report Prepared for the AAF Scientific 

Advisorv Group. Wright Field, OH: Air Materiel Command, 1946. 

(UGH 5612 .T73 v. 2) 

Whitnah, Donald R. Safer Skyways: Federal Control of Aviation, 1926-1966. 

Ames: Iowa State UP, 1967. 

(TLG51 .W61) 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Cornelisse, Diana G. “Remarkable Journey.” Air Power History 37 (Winter 1990): 7-14 

Hall, R. Cargill. “The Eisenhower Administration and the Cold War: Framing American 

Astronautics to Serve National Security.” Prologue 27 (Spring 1995): 58-72 

Hetherington, Norriss S. “Air Power and Governmental Support for Scientific Research: 

The Approach to the Second World War.” Minerva 29 (Winter 1991): 420-439 

25 
----- . “The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: A Forerunner of Federal 

Governmental Support for Scientific Research.” Minerva 28 (Spring 1990): 

59-80 

Launius, Roger D. “Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Creation of NASA.” Prologue 28 

(Summer 1996): 126-143 

----- . “’Never Was Life More Interesting’: The National Advisory Committee for 

Aeronautics, 1936-1945.” Prologue 24 (Winter 1992): 361-373 

Lee, David D. “Senator Black’s Investigation of the Airmail, 1933-1934.” Historian 

53 (Spring 1991): 423-442 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Educational Programs and 

Services. “Historical Origins of N.A.S.A. (Revised).” Airpower Historian 

10 (January 1963): 18-23 

Phillips, William H. “Recollections of the Langley Memorial Aero Lab in the Forties.” 

American Aviation Historical Society Journal 37 (Summer 1992): 116-127 

Roland, Alex. “The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.” Prologue 10 

(Summer 1978): 69-8 1 

Shafer, Mary F. “In-Flight Simulation at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility.” 

American Aviation Historical Society Journal 38 (Winter 1993): 260-277 

Spencer, Thomas T. “The Air Mail Controversy of 1934.” Mid-America 62 (Oct 

1980): 161-172 

Wilson, Glen P. “The Legislative Origins of NASA: The Role of Lyndon B. Johnson.” 

Prologue 25 (Winter 1993): 363-373 

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AERONAUTICAL TECHNOLOGY 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Abzug, Malcolm J., and E. Eugene Larrabee. Airplane Stability and Control: 

A History of the Technologies That Made Aviation Possible. Cambridge; 

New York: Cambridge UP, 1997. 

(TLD 491 .A1679 1997) 

APainst the Wind: 90 Years of Flight Test in the Miami Valley. S.l.: Air Force 

Materiel Command, 1994. 

(UGJ 1056 .A48 1994; Gov Doc D 301.2:W72/2) 

Anderson, John D. The Airplane: A History of Its Technology. Reston, VA: 

American Inst of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2002. 

(TLD 12 .A547 2002) 

Anderton, David A. Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research, 1917-1977. Washington: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978. 

(Gov Doc NAS I. 19: 145) 

Becker, John V. The High-speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 

1920- 1950. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1980. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21:445) 

Bilstein, Roger E. “American Aviation Technology: An International Heritage.” 

In Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Peter Galison and 

Alex Roland. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer, 2000. 207-222. 

(TLB 405 .A881 2000) 

----- . Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the 

United States, 1918-1929. Athens: U of Georgia Pr, 1983. 

(TLB 31 1 .B59 1983) 

Blackburn, Al. Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999. 

(UGH 3215 .S8 B628 1999) 

Blackwelder, Donald L. The Long Road to Desert Storm and Beyond: The Development 

of Precision Guided Bombs. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1993. 

(UGB 901 1993 .B52) 

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Brooks, Peter W. The Modern Airliner: Its Origins and Development. Manhattan, 

KS: Sunflower UP, 1982. 

(TLG41 .B87 1982) 

Chambers, Joseph R. Partners in Freedom: Contributions of the Langley Research 

Center to U. S. Military Aircraft of the 1990s. Washington: National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000. 

(GOV DOC NAS 1.2 1 2000-45 19) 

Chilstrom, Ken and Penn Leary, eds. Test Flying at Old Wright Field. Omaha: 

Westchester House, 1993. 

(TLF 335 .T34 1993) 

Constant, Edward W. 11. The Origins of the Turboiet Revolution. Baltimore: 

Johns Hopkins UP, 1980. 

(TLE 301 .C75) 

Crouch, Tom D. “Blaming Wilbur and Orville: The Wright Patent Suits and the 

Growth of American Aeronautics.” In Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth 

Century. Edited by Peter Galison and Alex Roland. Dordrecht; Boston: 

Kluwer, 2000. 287-300. 

(TLB 405 .A881 2000) 

Dawson, Virginia P. Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American 

Propulsion Technologv. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, 199 1. 

(Gov Doc NAS 1.21 :4306) 

Dickey, Philip S. 111. The Liberty Engine. 1918-1942. Washinton: Smithsonian 

Inst Pr, 1968. 

(TLE 121 .L6D) 

Dyson, Ella J. H., Dean A. Herrin, and Amy E. Slaton, eds. The EngineerinP of Flight: 

Aeronautical Engineering Facilities of Area B, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 

Ohio. Washington: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American 

Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1993. 

(UGH 5317 .W94 E58 1993) 

Gorn, Michael H. Harnessing the Genie: Science and Technology Forecasting for the 

Air Force, 1944-1986. Washington: Office of Air Force History, USAF, 1988. 

(Gov Doc D 301.82/6:SCI 2) 

Gunston, Bill. The Development of Piston Aero Engines: From the Wrights to 

Microlights: A Century of Evolution and Still a Power to be Reckoned with. 

Somerset: P. Stephens, 1993. 

(TLE 61 .G97 1993) 

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Hallion, Richard P., and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Designers and Test 

Pilots. Rev ed. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1985. 

(TLD 481 .H18 1983) 

Hallion, Richard P. Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Bamer and Beyond: 

The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558. Rev ed. London; Washington: 

Brassey’s, 1997. 

(UGH 3215 .S8 H18 1997) 

----- . Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight. Washington: Smithsonian Inst 

Pr, 1988. 

(TLF 335 .H18a 1988) 

Hanle, Paul A. Bringing Aerodynamics to America. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1982. 

(TLD 41 .H24) 

Heiman, Grover. Jet Pioneers. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1963. 

(TLB 291 .H46) 

Jarrett, Philip, ed. Biplane to Monoplane: Aircraft Development 1919-39. London: 

Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1997. 

(TLD 751 .B6165 1997) 

Jenkins, Dennis R. Lockheed Secret Proiects: Inside the Skunk Works. 

St Paul, MN: MBI, 2001. 

(TLF 651 .J52 2001) 

Kelly, Lloyd L., and Robert B. Parke. The Pilot Maker. New York: Grosset 

& Dunlap, 1970. 

(TLB 681 .K2) 

Kohn, Richard H. Reflections on Research and Development in the United States 

Air Force: An Interview with General Bernard A. Schriever, and General 

Samuel C. Phillips, Robert T. Marsh, and James H. Doolittle, and Dr. Ivan A. 

Getting Edited by Jacob Neufeld. Washington: Center for Air Force 

History, 1993. 

[UGH 5612 .R332 1993; Gov Doc D 301.82/7:R31) 

Launius, Roger D. “Patterns of Innovation in Aeronautical Techology.” In 

Innovation and the Development of Flight. Edited by Roger D. Launius. 

College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1999. 3-17. 

(TLB 251 .I58 1999) 

Lloyd, Ian. Rolls-Royce, the Merlin at War. London: Macmillan, 1978. 

(TLE 121 .R75L) 

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Hallion, Richard P., and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Designers and Test 

Pilots. Rev ed. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1985. 

(TLD 481 .H18 1983) 

Hallion, Richard P. Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond: 

The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558. Rev ed. London; Washington: 

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AVIATION: THE BUSINESS AND THE INDUSTRY 

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----- . The Saga of the Air Mail. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1968. 

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----- . Airways: The History of Commercial Aviation in the United States. 

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United States. Bureau of Air Commerce. Civil Aeronautics in the United States. 

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United States. Cong. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and 

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Vaughan, Guy W. “Major Problems and Time Elements in Expanding the Aircraft 

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----- . The World’s Wings. What U. S. Air Policy for World Peace and Prosperity? 

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Bilstein, Roger E. “From Colony to Commonwealth: The Rise of the Aerospace Industry 

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Holley, I. B. Jr. “A Detroit Dream of Mass-produced Fighter Aircraft: The XP-75 

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Lawless, Benjamin. “A Curmudgeonly View of Air Comfort.” Smithsonian 

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Maxtone-Graham, Michael. “The Air Campaign.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 

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Scott, Allen J. and Mattingly, Doreen J. “The Aircraft and Parts Industry in Southern 

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FLYING: ITS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EFFECTS 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

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American Airport Designs. Washington: American Inst of Architects, 1990. 

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Bragg, Janet H., and Marjorie M. Kriz. Soaring Above Setbacks: The Autobiographv of 

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Carisella, P. J., and James W. Ryan. The Black Swallow of Death: The Incredible 

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Carlisle, Norman V., and Frank B. Latham. Miracles Ahead! Better Living in the 

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Cohen, Rose N. Flying High (Antholopy of Aviation Literature for Junior High 

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Columbia University. Teachers College. Aviation Education Research Group. 

Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics for High Schools. New York: 

Macmi 1 Ian, 1942. 

(TLB 401 .C72 1942) 

Corn, Joseph J. The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950. 

New York: Oxford UP, 1983. 

(TLB 31 1 .C81 1983) 

Crehan, James E., and Tim Brady. “Developments between the Wars.” In The American 

Aviation Experience: A History. Ed. Tim Brady. Carbondale; Edwardsville, IL: 

Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 15 1-170. 

(TLB 3 1 1 .A5 12 2000) 

Cross, Ethan A. Wings for You (a Book About Aviation for Senior High School 

Students). New York: Macmillan, 1942. 

(TLB 417 .C95) 

Douglas, Deborah G. “Who Designs Airports.. .Engineers, Architects, or City 

Planners? Aspects of American Airport Design before World War 11.” 

In Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Peter Galison 

and Alex Roland. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer, 2000. 301-322. 

(TLB 405 .A881 2000) 

Dwiggins, Don. The Barnstormers: Flying Daredevils of the Roaring Twenties. 

(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. 

(TLC 31 .D99b) 

Earhart, Amelia. The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in 

Aviation. New York: Junior Literary Guild; Brewer, Warren, & Putnam, 1932. 

(TLB 290 .E12) 

----- . Last Flight by Amelia Earhart, Arranged by GeorPe Palmer Putnam. New York: 

Harcourt, Brace, 1937. 

(TLB 285 .El) 

----- . Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937. Edited by Jean L. Backus. Boston: Beacon, 

1982. 

(TLB 290 .E12 A1 1) 

Fisher, Lillian M. Brave Bessie: Flying Free. Dallas: Hendrick-Long, 1995. 

(TLB 290 .C692 F5342 1995) 

Forsyth, Roger A. Black Flight: Breaking Barriers to Blacks in Aviation. 

Los Angeles: AIICourt, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .F735 F7351 2002) 

45 
Francis, Charles E. The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation. 

Edited by Adolph Caso. 4th ed. Boston: Branden, 1997. 

(D 790 .F637 1997) 

Freydberg, Elizabeth A. H. Bessie Coleman, the Brownskin Lady Bird. 

New York: Garland, 1994. 

(TLB 290 .C692 F89 1993) 

Gertsch, W. Darrell. “The Strategic Air Offensive and the Mutation of American Values, 

1937-1945.” In The Military in America: From the Colonial Era to the Present. 

Edited by Peter Karsten. New York: Free Pr, 1980. 344-358. 

(UA 23 .M5626) 

Goldstein, Laurence. The Flying Machine and Modern Literature. Bloomington: 

Indiana UP, 1986. 

(PS 228 .A57 G65 1986) 

Hall, Ed Y., ed. Harriet Ouimby: America’s First Lady of the Air: The Story of Harriet 

Ouimby, America’s First Licensed Woman Pilot and the First Woman Pilot to 

Fly the English Channel. Spartanburg, SC: Honoribus, 1990. 

(TLB 290 .Q6 H29 1990) 

Hallion, Richard. P. Legacy of Flight: The Guggenheim Contribution to American 

Aviation. Seattle: U of Washington, 1977. 

(TLD 14 .H18) 

Hambrook, Robert W. Aviation in the Public Schools. Washington: G. P. O., 1936. 

(Gov Doc I 16.54/3: 185) 

Hardesty, Von, and Dominick Pismo. Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation. 

Washington: Natl. Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Inst., 1983. 

(TLB 695 .H25 1983) 

Hart, Philip S. Ur, in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman. Minneapolis: 

Carolrhoda Books, 1996. 

(TLB 290 .C692 H3265 1996) 

Haskins, James. Black Eagles: - African Americans in Aviation. New York: 

Scholastic, 1995. 

(TLB 291 .H351 1995) 

Holden, Henry M. Ladybirds 11: The Continuing Story of American Women in Aviation. 

Mt. Freedom, NJ: Black Hawk, 1993. 

(TLB 291 .H727 1993) 

46 
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and 

Littlefield, 1972. 

(TLG41 .H88) 

Jablonski, Edward. Ladybirds: Women in Aviation. New York: Hawthorn, 1968. 

(TLB 291 .J1) 

Jakeman, Robert J. America’s Black Air Pioneers, 1900-1939. Maxwell AFB, AL: 

Air University, 1988. 

(UGB 290 .J24 1988; Report Lit MF ADA 210 437) 

Johnson, Dolores. She Dared to Fly: Bessie Coleman. New York: Benchmark, 1997. 

(TLB 290 .C692 J66 1997) 

Lawrance, Charles L. Our National Aviation Propram. New York: Aeronautical 

Chamber of Commerce of America, 1932. 

(TLB 31 1 .U1) 

Lebow, Eileen F. Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation. 

Washington: Brassey’s, 2002. 

(TLB 291 .LA495 2002) 

Le Gallienne, Richard. “On Airships and the Soul of Man.” In Attitudes and 

Avowals, with Some Retrospective Reviews. Freeport, NY: Books for 

Libraries, 1969. 146-153. 

(PR 4881 .A6) Reprint of 1910 edition 

Loving, Neal V. Loving’s - Love: A Black American’s Experience in Aviation. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 1994. 

(TLB 290 .L91 A1 1 1994) 

May, Charles P. Women in Aeronautics. New York: Nelson, 1962. 

(TLB 693 .M46) 

Menet, John. Aviation and the American Imagination during World War 11. Diss., 

U of Illinois at Chicago, 2000. 

(UGB 5 .M543 2003) 

Model Aeronautics Year Book. Northridge, CA: Model Aeronautic Publications, 19- . (TLD 861 .M68) Library has 1937 and 1938 editions. 

Moolman, Valerie, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Women Aloft. Alexandria, VA: 

Time-Life, 198 1. 

(TLB 693 .M81) 

41 
Nettey, Isaac R. “African American Pioneers in Aviation.” In The American 

Aviation Experience: A History. Edited by Tim Brady. Carbondale; 

Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 335-366. 

(TLB 311 .A512 2000) 

Nugent, John P. The Black Eagle. New York: Stein and Day, 1971. 

(E 185.97 .J9N) 

Ogburn, William F. The Social Effects of Aviation. Boston; New York: Houghton 

Mifflin, 1946. 

(TLF 101.03) 

Peckham, Betty C. Women in Aviation. New York; Edinburgh: Nelson & Sons, 1945. 

(TLB 693 .P36) 

Peters, Raymond E. Black Americans in Aviation. San Diego: Neyenesch 

Printers, 1975. 

(Oversize TLB 695 .P48) 

Planck, Charles E. Women with Wings. 3‘d ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. 

(TLB 291 .P71) 

Poole, Robert W., Jr. “Fly the Frenzied Skies.” In The Libertarian Alternative: Essays in 

Social and Political Philosophy. Edited by Tibor R. Machan. Chicago: NelsonHall, 1974. 193-207. 

(JC 571 .M23) 

Powell, William J. Black Aviator: The Story of William J. Powell: A New Edition of.. . Black Wings. Washington: Smithsonian Inst., 1994. 

(TLB 290 .P88 All 1994) 

Rich, Doris L. Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator. Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 1993. 

(TLB 290 .C692 R49 1993) 

Robie, William. For the Greatest Achievement: A History of the Aero Club of America 

and the National Aeronautic Association. Washington: Smithsonian Inst, 1993. 

(TLB 7 .R65 1993) 

Simmons, Thomas E. The Brown Condor: The True Adventures of John C. Robinson. 

Silver Spring, MD: Bartleby, 1988. 

(TLB 290 .R66 S59 1988) 

Thornberg, Hope B. “Women in Aviation.” In The American Aviation Experience: 

A History. Edited by Tim Brady. Carbondale; Edwardsville, IL: Southern 

Illinois Up, 2000. 367-412. 

(TLB 31 1 .A512 2000) 

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United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration. Air-conditioning Young America. 

Washington: The Administration, 1942. 

(Gov Doc FS 5.2:Ai7) 

University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Aviation Education Research Group. Elements of 

Pre-Flight Aeronautics for High Schools. New York: Macmillan, 1942. 

(TLB 401 .U58) 

Willis, Paul P. Your Future is in the Air: The Story of How American Airlines made 

People Air-Travel Conscious. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940. 

(TLG 203 .W73) 

Wood, John W. Airports and Air Traffic: The Airport Needs of Your Community. 

New York: Coward-McCann, 1949. 

(TLG 361 .W87) 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

“Airline Aids to the Schools, by Four Airline Educators.” Air Affairs 2 (Winter 

1948): 233-246 

Byrd, Richard E. “The Coming Age in Aviation.” World’s Work 54 (Oct 1927): 

600-610 

Chamberlin, Clarence D. “Shall We All Fly Soon?” North American Review 226 

(Oct 1928) : 409-4 15 

Collings, Kenneth B. “Flying Is Still Dangerous.” American Mercury 32 (June 1934): 

147-152 

Gropman, Alan L. “Against All Foes.” Airman 25 (Sept 1985): 44-48 

Gwynn-Jones, Terry. “For a Brief Moment the World Seemed Wild About Harriet.” 

Smithsonian 14 (Jan 1984): 112-1 16+ 

Hallion, Richard P. “Philanthropy and Flight: Guggenheim Support of Aeronautics, 

1925-1930.” Aerospace History 28 (Spring/Mar 1981): 10-21 

Harper, Gena. “Tuskegee: Runway to Victory.” Soldiers 39 (Feb 1984): 49-52 

49 
Harris, Lorenzo D. “All Guts, Little Glory: Black Aviators in World War 11.” 

Airman 25 (Feb 1985): 27-31 

Hasdorff, James C. “Reflections on the Tuskegee Experiment: An Interview with Brig 

Gen Noel F. Pamsh USAF (ret).” Aerospace Historian 24 (Sept 1977): 173-180 

Johnson, Ann R. “The WASP of World War 11.” Aerospace Historian 17 

(Summer/fall 1970): 76-82 

Lee, Edwin A. “Education in the Air Age.” Air Affairs 2 (Winter 1948): 

171-178 

Lewis, H. Latane 111. “To Foster American Aviation.” Pt. I: National Aeronautics 

Magazine 16 (Dec 1938): 18-19+; pt. 11: 17 (Jan 1939): 22-24+ 

McGinty, Brian. “Vagabonds with Wings.” American History Illustrated 19 

(June 1984): 18-23 

McMahon, Michael. “The Romance of Technological Progress: A Critical Review of the 

National Air and Space Museum.” Technology and Culture 22 (April 1981): 

28 1-296 

Millbrooke, Anne. “Humorist in Flight.” Air Power History 40 (Fall 1993): 42-51 

Powell, Hugh. “Harriet Quimby: America’s First Woman Pilot.” American Aviation 

Historical Society Journal 27 (Winter 1982): 273-279 

Quillen, I. James. “Education, Aviation, and Society.” Air Affairs 2 (Winter 1948): 

165-170 

O’Ryan, John F. “For Safety, the Air.” North American Review 226 (Nov 1928): 616- 

620 

Paszek, Lawrence J. “Separate But Equal? The Story of the 99th Fighter Squadron.” 

Aerospace Historian 25 (Sept 1977): 135-145 

Peary, Robert E. “The Future of the Airplane.” National Geographic 33 (Jan 1918): 

107-1 13 

Roberts, David. “Men Didn’t Have to Prove They Could Fly, but Women Did.” 

Smithsonian 25 (Aug 1994): 72-81 

Rose, Robert. “Lonely Eagles.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal Pt I: 

20 (Summer 1975): 118-127; Pt 11: 20 (Winter 1975): 240-252 

50 
Salo, Mauno. “Amelia Earhart: A Short Biography.” American Aviation Historical 

Society Journal 22(Summer 1977): 82-86 

Stimson, Thomas E., Jr. “Here’s Your Helicopter Coupe.” Popular Mechanics 95 

(Feb 1951): 118-121 

Trammel, Archie. “Saga of the Barnstormers.” Flying 78 (June 1966): 72-88 

Valerioti, R. M. “Ruth Nichols.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal 

29 (Spring 1984): 27-40 

Walker, J. Bernard. “The Aeroplane- a Retrospect and a Forecast.” Review of 

Reviews 40 (Nov 1909): 551-559 

Webster, Grove. “The Civilian Pilot Training Program.” Aerospace Historian 26 

(Spring/Mar 1979): 34-39 

Wohl, Robert. “Republic of the Air.” Wilson Quarterly 17 (Spring 1993): 106-1 17 

Wright, Theodore P., and Howard W. Sinclair. “Aviation Education in North America.” 

Air Affairs 2 (July 1948): 3 14-325 

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CHARLES LINDBERGH 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Bak, Richard. Lindbergh: Triumph and Tragedy. - Dallas: Taylor, 2000. 

(TLB 290 .L74 B166 2000) 

Beamish, Richard J. The Boy’s Story of Lindbergh, the Lone Eagle, Including the 

Development of Aviation, Epoch-Making Flights of the World’s Greatest 

Airmen, and the History of Efforts to Bridge the Distance between the Old 

and New Worlds. Philadephia: International Pr, 1927. 

(TLB 290 .L74B) Library also has 1928 printing 

Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998. 

(TLB 290 .L74 B493 1998) 

Davis, Kenneth S. The Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Dream. 

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. 

(TLB 290 .L74D) 

Dudley, Delos E. My Lindbergh Papers: Personal Memories of a National Hero. 

s.1.: D. E. Dudley, 1992. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .L74 D847 1992) 

Fife, George B. Lindbergh, the Lone Eagle, His Life and Achievements. New York: 

World Syndicate, 1927. 

(TLB 290 .L74F) Library also 1933 printing 

Gill, Brendan. Lindbergh Alone. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. 

(TLB 290 .L74G) 

Gray, Susan M. Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Dilemma: The Conflict of 

Technology and Human Values. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State 

University Popular Pr, 1988. 

(TLB 290 .L74 G72 1988) 

Hardesty, Von. Lindbergh: Flight’s Enigmatic Hero. New York: Harcourt, 2002. 

(Oversize TLB 290 .L74 H2592 2002) 

Hixson, Walter L. Charles A. Lindbergh, Lone Eagle. 2”d ed. New York: Addison 

Wesley Longman, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .L74 H6768 2002) Library also has lSt ed., 1996 

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Hunter, T. Willard. The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh: Another Dimension. 

Lanham, MD: Madison, 1993. 

(TLB 290 .L74 H94 1993) 

Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying with Lindbergh. New York; London: G. P. Putnam’s 

Sons, 1928. 

(TLB 290 .L74k) 

Lindbergh, Charles A. Autobiography of Values. New York: Harcourt Brace 

Jovanovich, 1978. 

(TLB 290 .L74 A5) Library also has 1992 printing 

----- . Lindbergh Looks Back: A Boyhood Reminiscence. St Paul: Minnesota 

Historical Society Pr, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .L74A4 2002) 

----- . Lindbergh’s Own Story of His New York-Paris Flipht as Published in the 

New York Times, May 23 and 24, 1927. New York: New York Times, 

1927? 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .L74N) 

----- . The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Scribner, 1953. 

(TLB 2990 .L74 Al) Library also has 1974 and 1993 printings 

----- . “We,”. . .the Famous Flier’s Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic 

Flight, Topether with His Views on the Future of Aviation. New York; 

London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .L74 A2) 

Luckett, Perry D. Charles A. Lindbergh, a Bio-Bibliography. New York: 

Greenwood, 19 8 6. 

(TLB 290 .L74 L94 1986) 

Mordden, Ethan. That Jazz! An Idiosyncratic Social History of the American 

Twenties. New York: Putnam, 1978. 

(E 784 .M66 1978) 

Mosley, Leonard. Lindbergh: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. 

(TLB 290 .L74Mo) 

Pisano, Dominick. Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis. Washington: 

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .L74 P675 2002) 

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Reeves, Earl. Lindbergh Flies On! A Story of a Hero, and of the Pioneer, and “Empire 

Builders of the Air” Who Followed Him. New York: R. M. McBride, 1930. 

(TLB 290 .L74R) 

Ross, Walter S. The Last Hero, Charles A. Lindbergh. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. 

(TLB 290 .L74Ro 1976) 

Trippe, Juan T. Charles A. Lindbergh and World Travel. New York: Wings Club, 1977. 

(TLB 290 .L74 T83) 

Ward, J. W. “The Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight.” In Studies in American Culture: 

Dominant Ideas and Images. Edited by Joseph J. Kwiat and Mary C. Turpie. 

Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Pr, 1960. 27-40. 

(E 169.1 .K98) See also in list of periodical articles 

West, James E. The Lone Scout of the Sky; the Story of Charles A. Lindbergh. 

New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1927. 

(Spec Coll TLB 290 .L74W) Library also has 1928 printing 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Delear, Frank J. “Charles Lindbergh: A Closer Look.” American Aviation Historical 

Society Journal 26 (Winter 198 1): 304-3 10 

Eaker, Ira C. “The Lindbergh I Knew.” Aerospace Historian 24 (WinterDec 1977): 

240-242 

Keller, Alian. “Over the Atlantic Alone: Charles Lindbergh’s $25,000 Flight.” 

American History Illustrated 9 (April 1974): 38-45 

Lindbergh, Charles A. “The Making of an Air Pilot: The Unforgettable Thrills of the 

First Solo Flight.” World’s Work 54 (Oct 1927): 476-481 

“Lindy: The Advance Agent of the Air Age.” Literary Digest 96 (Jan 7, 1928): 37-42 

Luckett, Perry D. “Technology and Modern Leadership: Charles Lindbergh, a Case 

Study.” Air University Review 34 (SepUOct 1983): 64-72 

Melzer, Richard. “The Lone Eagle in Mexico: Charles A. Lndbergh’s Less Famous 

Record-Setting Flight of 1927.” Journal of the West 30 (Jan 1991): 30-36 

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“The Outstanding Feat of the Ages.” Flying 123 (April 1996): 74-77 

Reprinted from Aug 1927 issue 

Saturday Review (April 16, 1977). Special edition honoring the 50” anniversary of 

Lindbergh’s flight. 

“Why the World Makes Lindbergh Its Hero.” Literary Digest 93 (June 25, 1927): 5-8 

Ward, John M. “The Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight.” American Ouarterly 10 

(Spring 1958): 3-16 See also in list of books 

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FAMOUS FLIGHTS 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Byrd, Richard E. Skyward; Man’s Mastery of the Air as Shown by the Brilliant 

Flights of America’s Leading Air Explorer. His Life, His Thrilling Adventures, 

His North Pole and Trans-Atlantic Flights, Together with His Plans for 

Conquering the Antarctic by Air. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1936. 

(TLB 290 .B99 A12 1936) 

Corrigan, Douglas. That’s My Story. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938. 

(TLB 290 .C82) 

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corp. The Flight - Across the Atlantic: The NC Flying 

Boats, a Tribute to the United States Navy. North Hollywood, CA: Heindell, 

1970. 

(TLB 285 .C98 1970) Reprint of 1919 ed. 

Glines, Carroll V. Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 2001. 

(TLB 285 .G562 2001) 

----- . Round-the-World Flights. Znd ed. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: AERO, 1990. 

(G 445 .G54 1990) 

Lebow, Eileen F. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1989. 

(TLB 285 .LA4 1989) 

McKay, Ernest A. A World to Conquer: The Epic Story of the First Round-theWorld Flight. New York: Arco, 198 1. 

(TLB 285 .M15) 

Post, Wiley and Harold Gatty. Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the 

Winnie Mae. New York; Chicago: Rand McNally, 193 1. 

(TLB 285 .P85) 

Smith, Richard K. First Across! The U. S. Navy’s Transatlantic Flight of 1919. 

Annapolis: Naval Inst Pr, 1973. 

(VGH 207 .S65) 

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Stein, E. P. Flight of the Vin Fiz. New York: Arbor House, 1985. 

(TLB 285 .S81 1985) 

Steirman, Hy and Glenn D. Kittler. The First Transatlantic Flight 1919. New York: 

Richardson & Steirman, 1986. 

(TLB 285 .S823 1986) 

Yeager, Jeana, Dick Rutan, and Phil Patton. Voyager. New York: Knopf, 1987. 

(TLB 285 .V975 Y37 1987) 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

“Alcock and Brown.” New Republic 19 (June 25, 1919): 231-232 

Christy, Joe. “That First Round-the-World Flight.” Air Force Magazine 57 

(Mar 1974): 52-59 

Cohan, Phil. “Wrong Way Corrigan Revisited.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 3 

(June/July 1988): 46-52 

Doolittle, James H. “Recollections of Early Blind Flying.” Air Power History 

40 (Winter 1993): 30-34 

Eaker, Ira C. “The Air Corps’s 1926 Pan American Flight.” Air Force Magazine 

59 (Sept 1976): 114-124 

Eisel, Braxton, and Daniel L. Watkins. “Fabric Planes- Iron Men: Reuniting the 

Collier Trophy with 1924 Round-the-World Flight Artifacts.” Air Power 

History 50 Spring 2003): 12-21 

Ellis, Frank H. “The First Non-Stop Atlantic Flight.” Canadian Geographical 

Journal 78 (June 1969): 182-187 

Ellis, Junius. “Voyager.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 1 (OciYNov 1986): 66-73 

Ethell, Jeffrey L. “At the Threshold of Space.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 8 

(OC~/NOV 1993): 26-33 

Fleischman, John and William A. Price. “A Flight Along America’s Highway.” 

Air & Space/Smithsonian 14 (Dec/Jan 1999-2000): 78-85 

“The Forgotten Heroes of 1927.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal 22 

(Winter 1977): 303-307 

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Harris, Sherwood. “Coast to Coast in 12 Crashes.” American Heritage 15 

(Oct 1964): 46-49+ 

Hartley, D. L. B. “Crossing the Atlantic, 1919.” History Today 29 (July 1979): 

44 8 -45 5 

Hegenberger, Robert F. “’The Bird of Paradise’: The Significance of the Hawaiian 

Flight of 1927.” Air Power History 38 (Summer 1991): 6-18 

Johansen, Jens P. “The Flights of Liberty.” American Aviation Historical Society 

Journal 24 (Summer 1979): 11 1-121 

Lloyd, A. T. “World Circlers.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal 34 

(Spring 1989): 65-69 

Mitchell, Ruth. “Wings Over America.” American History 37 (Aug 2002): 44-51 

Montague, Richard. “How Not to Fly the Atlantic.” American Heritage 22 (Apr 

1971): 42-47 

Nevin, David. “Two Daring Flyers Beat the Atlantic before Lindbergh.” Smithsonian 

10 (Mar 1980): 102-1 11 

Park, Edwards. “They Flew & Flew & Flew.” Smithsonian 28 (Oct 1997): 94-100 

Polmar, Norman. “Historic Aircraft.” Naval History 17 (June 2003): 14-15 

Purka, Joseph W. “Launching Across the Pacific.” Aerospace Historian 22 

(Fall/Sept 1975): 135-138 

Read, Albert C. “The Flight.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal 24 

(Summer 1979): 144-146 About 1919 transatlantic flight of 3 NC-4s 

Scammell, Henry. “Across the Atlantic.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 1 1 (April/May 

1996): 32-40 

Schrader, Richard K. “Bridging the Atlantic.” American History Illustrated 24 

(May 1989): 34-47 

Scrivner, John H. Jr. “The Impossible Has Happened.” Aerospace Historian 14 

(Summer 1967): 103-109 

Shulman, Seth. “The Flight That Tamed the Skies.” Technology Review 105 

(Sept 2002): 54-59+ 

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Stinson, Patrick. “Around the World Nonstop.” Air Power History 36 (Fall 1989): 

24-30 

Thomas, Lowell. “The First Aerial Crossing of the Pacific.” Aerospace Historian 

14 (Spring 1967): 22-25+ 

Weisberger, Bernard A. “First to Fly the Atlantic.” American Heritage 20 (June 

1969): 16-21+ 

Westervelt, G. C. “Flight of the NC-Boats.” World’s Work 38 (Aug 1919): 

424-438 

Wilkinson, Dave. “’Wrong Way’ Corrigan.” American History Illustrated 12 

(Jan 1978): 24-33 

Williams, Robert E. “75 Years Ago: First Around the World by Air.” American 

Aviation Historical Society Journal 44 (Fall 1999): 162-181 

Wright, Jay E. “Across the Pacific- the Hard Way!” American Aviation Historical 

Society Journal 34 (Summer 1989): 50-58 

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BIOGRAPHIES 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Burge, Legand L. Dr. Alexander H. Flax: Technologist of Aeronautics. Maxwell AFB, 

AL: Air War College, 1992. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 258 441) 

Coleman, Ted. Jack Northrop and the Flying Wing: The Story behind the Stealth 

Bomber. New York: Paragon House, 1988. 

(TLB 290 .N87 C69 1988) 

Coram, Robert. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Boston: 

Little, Brown, 2002. 

(UG 626.2 .B69 C67 2002) 

Gorn, Michael H. Hugh L. Dryden’s Career in Aviation and Space. Washington: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1996. 

(TLB 290 .D79 G671 1996) 

----- . The Universal Man: Theodore von Karman’s Life in Aeronautics. Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1992. 

(TLB 290 .V94 G66 1992) 

Green, Fitzhugh. Dick Byrd- Air Explorer. New York; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 

1928. 

(TLB 290 .B99g) 

Hatch, Alden. Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Naval Aviation. New York: Messner, 1942. 

(TLB 290 .C98h) 

Heinemann, Edward H., and Rosario Rausa. Ed Heinemann, Combat Aircraft Designer. 

Annapolis: Naval Inst Pr, 1980. 

(TLB 290 .H45 A1 1) 

Holland, Maurice and Thomas M. Smith. Architects of Aviation. New York: Duell, 

Sloan and Pearce, 1951. 

(TLB 291 .H73) 

Johnson, Clarence L, and Maggie Smith. Kelly: More Than Mv Share of It All. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1985. 

(UGB 291 .J66 A2 1985; Gov Doc SI 1.2:Sh2) 

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Maitland, Lester J. Knights of the Air. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. 

(TLB 3 1 1 .M23) 

Mitchell, J. W. “The First Birdman.” In The Saturday Evening Post Treasury. 

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. 118-124. 

(PS 536 .S25) About Samuel P. Langley 

Nevin, David and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Architects of Air Power. 

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1985. 

(UGK 21 .N52 1985) 

Rich, Doris L. The Magnificent Moisants: Champions of Early Flight. Washington: 

Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1998. 

(TLB 290 .M714 R498 1998) 

Rollo, Vera A. F. Burt Rutan: Reinventing the Airplane. Lanham, MD: Maryland 

Historical Pr, 1991. 

(TLB 290 .R972 R755 1991) 

Roseberry, Cecil R. Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Flight. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1991. 

(TLB 290 .C98 R79 1991) 

Sanders, Ralph, ed. J. Carlton Ward, Jr.: The Life and Thought of an Industrial 

Statesman. Washington: Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1988. 

(UA 18 .U5 532 1988) 

Shulman, Seth. Unlocking - the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent 

the Aimlane. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .C98 S562 2002) 

Smith, Richard K., comp. The Hugh L. Dryden Papers, 1898-1965: A Preliminary 

Catalogue of the Basic Collection. Baltimore: Milston S. Eisenhower Library, 

1974. 

(TLB 290 .D79S) 

Studer, Clara. Sky Storming Yankee: The Life of Glenn Curtiss. New York: 

Stackpole Sons, 1937. 

(TLB 290 .C98s) 

Trimble, William F. Jerome C. Hunsaker and the Rise of American Aeronautics. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 2002. 

(TLB 290 .H9385 T831 2002) 

Vaeth, J. Gordon. Langley, Man of Science and Flight. New York: Ronald Pr, 1966. 

(TLB 290 .L28v) 

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Wolko, Howard S. In the Cause of Flight: Technologists of Aeronautics and 

Astronautics. Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 198 1. 

(TLB 291 .W86; Gov Doc SI 1.42:4) 

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Crouch, Tom D. “Local Hero: John Joseph Montgomery and the First Winged Flight in 

America.” Journal of the West 36 (July 1997): 21-28 

Casey, Louis S. “Curtiss: The Hammondsport Era, 1907-1915.” Aerospace Historian 

28 (Fall/Sept 198 1): 156- 164 

Fadiman, Jeffrey A. “Dreamer of the Drawing Board: Donald Wills Douglas (1892- 

198l).” Journal of the West 25 (Jan 1986): 83-93 

Francis, Devon. “Glenn L. Martin’s First 40 Years.” Flying 53 (Dec 1953): 20-21+ 

Garrison, Peter. “The Man Who Could See Air: Richard Whitcomb Changed the Shape 

of Wings to Come.” Air & Space/Smithsonian 17 (June/July 2002): 68-75 

Gross, Charles J. “George Owen Squier and the Origins of American Military Aviation.” 

Journal of Military History 54 (July 1990): 281-305 

Hall, R. Cargill. “Theodore von KBrmBn 188 1-1963.” Aerospace Historian 28 

(WinterDec 1981): 253-258 

Hallion, Richard P. “Pioneer of Flight: Doolittle as Aviation Technologist.” Air Power 

History 40 (Winter 1993): 9-15 

Maddox, Robert. “’Fastest Man of the Earth and Skies.”’ American History Illustrated 

19 (June 1984): 10-18 About Glenn Curtiss 

Pearce, Juliette D. “Aerospace Profile. Maxwell: The Man and the Base.” Aerospace 

Historian 16 (Spring 1969): 6-9 

Robineau, Lucien. “On the Shoulders of Giants.” Aviation Week & Space Technology 

158 (Mar 24,2003): 65-68 

Sears, Stephen W. “The Intrepid Mr. Curtiss.” American Heritage 26 (April 1975): 60- 

65+ 

62 
Sommer, Anthony . “B i I1 y Mitchell : Aviation’s Prophet.” American His tory 

Illustrated 9 (Dec 1974): 32-43 

Thornton, Earl A. “MIT, Jerome C. Hunsaker, and the Origins of Aeronautical 

Engineering, 1913-1916.” American Aviation Historical Society Journal 

43 (Winter 1998): 306-315 

Ullman, Bruce L. “’This Wonderful Man’: A. W. Greely, a Father of Military 

Aviation.” Air Power History 38 (Summer 1991): 48-55 

Van Pelt, Charles B. “The First Man to Fly (Almost).” American History 

Illustrated 1 (Dec 1966): 44-53 About Samuel P. Langley 

Weiner, Philip. “America’s Forgotten Daedalus.” Aerospace Historian I5 

(Autumn 1968): 30-311- About Octave Chanute 

Wilson, Kenneth D. and Thomas E. Lowe. “Lloyd C. Stearman: 1898-1975.” 

American Aviation Historical Society Journal 36 (Summer 199 1): 82-93 

Wolk, Herman S. “Renaissance Man of Aviation.” Air Power History 40 (Winter 

1993): 4-8 

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THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN MILITARY AIR POWER 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Brown, Jerold E. Where Eagles Land: Planning and Development of U. S. Army 

Airfields, 1910-1941. New York: Greenwood Pr, 1990. 

(UGH 5312 .B76 1990) 

----- . Where Eagles Roost: A History of Army Airfields before World War 11. Diss., 

Duke University, 1977. 

(UGH 53 12 .B87) 

Brown, Michael E. Flying Blind: The Politics of the U. S. Strategic Bomber Program. 

Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992. 

(UGJ 1055 .B75 1992) 

Cameron, Rebecca H. Training to Fly: Military Flight Training, 1907- 1945. 

Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1999. 

(Gov Doc D 301.82/7:T68) 

Chandler, Charles de Forest. How Our Army Grew Wings: Airmen and Aircraft before 

1914. New York: Ronald Pr, 1943. 

(UGH 207 .C45) 

Chisolm, DeShana E., et al. Aerospace Science: Frontiers of Aviation History. 

Znd ed. Maxwell AFB, AL: AFROTC, 2002. 

(Gov Doc D 301.26/6: AE 8/2/2002) Library also has revised edition, 1997 

Clodfelter, Mark. “Solidifying the Foundation: Vietnam’s Impact on the Basic 

Doctrine of the US Air Force.” In Air Power History: Turning Points from 

Kitty Hawk to Kosovo. Edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. London; 

Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. 303-317. 

(UGK 27 .A298 2002) 

Currey, Cecil B. With Wings As Eagles: The History of Army Flight from Its 

Beginnings as a Branch of Aviation to Its Establishment as an Aviation 

Branch. Washington: GPO, 1984. 

(Gov Doc D101.2:W72) 

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Davis, Burke. The Billy Mitchell Affair. New York: Random House, 1967. 

(UGB 291 .M68D) 

Eichhorst, Thomas E. Military Airlift: Turbulence, Evolution, and Promise for the 

Future. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Pr, 1991. 

(Report Lit AU-ARI-89- 1 1) 

Ethell, Jeffrey L. Mustang A Documentary History of the P-5 1. London; New York: 

Jane’s, 198 1. 

(Oversize UGH 3227 .P5 1 E84) 

Golden Legacy, Boundless Future: Essays on the United States Air Force and the 

Rise of Aerospace Power: Proceedinm. Edited by Rebecca H. Cameron and 

Barbara Wittig. Washington: AF History and Museums Program, 2000. 

(UGH 207 .G6 18 2000) 

Gross, Charles J. American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm. College 

Station: Texas A & M UP, 2002. 

(UG 5 .G878 2002) 

Hallion, Richard P. “The Second World War as a Turning Point in Air Power.” In 

Air Power History: TurninP Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo. Edited by 

Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. 

(UGK 27 .A298 2002) 

93- 124. 

Hamilton, Robert J. Green and Blue in the Wild Blue: An Examination of the Evolution 

of Army and Air Force Airpower Thinlung and Doctrine Since the Vietnam 

War. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1993. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 323 271) 

Hazelton, Paul. Wild Blue Yonder: Aviation Cadet Training in the United States Army 

Air Forces 1942-1944. s.1.: P. Hazelton, 1998. 

(Spec Coll UGB 556 .H429 1998) 

Hennessy, Juliette A. The United States Army Air Arm, April 1861 to April 1917. 

[Maxwell AFB, AL?]: Air University, 1958. 

(UGB 907 .H6) 

Hinton, Harold B. Air Victory: The Men and the Machines. New York: Harper, 1948. 

(UGK 27 .H66) 

Holley, I. B. Buying Aircraft: Materiel Procurement for the Army Air Forces. 

Washington: Dept of the Army, 1964. 

(D 769 .A74 v. 8 pt. 7) 

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Huie, William B. The Fight for Air Power. New York: Fischer, 1942. 

(UGK 21 .H89) 

Jarrett, Philip, ed. Aircraft of the Second World War: The Development of the Warplane 

1939-45, London: Putnam Aeronautical, 1997. 

(UGH 2151 .A298 1997) 

----- . The Modern War Machine: Military Aviation Since 1945. London: Putnam 

Aeronautical, 2000. 

(UGH 2151 .M689 2000) 

Jessen, Carl A., and David Segel. Pre-Aviation Cadet Training in High Schools. 

Washington: Federal Security Agency, U. S. Office of Education, 1942. 

(Gov Doc F 55.18:62) 

Johnson, Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U. S. Army Aviation through World War I. 

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2001. 

(UGB 5 .J67 2001) 

McFarland, Stephen L. America’s Pursuit of Precision Bornbing, 1910-1945. 

Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1995. 

(UGK 207 .M33 1995) 

Millis, Walter, ed. American Military Thought. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 

(UA 23 .M65a) See Chap. 37, “The Morrow Board: Military Policy in the Air 

Age;” and Chap. 38, “The Baker Board: Military and Air Policy in the 1930s.” 

Mixter, George W., and Harold H. Emmons. United States Army Aircraft Production 

Facts. Comp. at the Request of the Assistant Secretary of war.. . . Washington: 

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(UGB 5 .M68) 

Mooney, Chase C. Organization of Military Aeronautics, 1935-1945. [Washington?]: 

Historical Office, Army Air Forces, 1946. 

(UGB 907 .H6 No. 46) 

Olsen, John A. “The 1991 Bombing of Baghdad: Air Power Theory vs Iraqi Realities.” 

In Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo. Edited by 

Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. 

(UGK 27 .A298 2002) 

258-286. 

Peck, James L. H. Armies with Wings. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940. 

(UGH21 .P36) 

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Ross, Stewart H. Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War 11: The 

Myths and the Facts. Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 2003. 

(D 785 .US7 R67 2003) 

Saward, Dudley. Victory Denied: The Rise of Air Power and the Defeat of Germany, 

1920-45. New York: Watts, 1987. 

(D 785 .S34 1987) 

Self, Mary R. History of the Development and Production of USAF Heavy 

Bombardment aircraft, 1917-1949. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: Air 

Materiel Command, 1950. 

(UGH 3215 .B6 S46) 

Sherry, Michael S. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. 

New Haven: Yale UP, 1987. 

(UGK 27 .S55 1987) 

Shiner, John S. Foulois and the U. S. Army Air Corps, 1931-1935. Washington: 

Office of Air Force History, 1983. 

(Gov Doc D 301.82/3:F82; Report Lit MF ADA 139 833) 

Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose: Developing Air Power for the United States 

Air Force during the First Century of Powered Flight. Wright-Patterson AFB, 

OH; Washington: AF Materiel Command; AF History and Museums Program, 

2002. 

(Gov Doc D 301.82/7:C33) 

Strickland, Patricia. The Putt-Putt Air Force: The Story of the Civilian Pilot Training 

Program and the War Training Service (1939-1944). [Washington?]: Federal 

Aviation Administration, 1970. 

(Gov Doc TD4.2:P98) 

Tate, James P. The Army and Its Air Corps: A Study of the Evolution of Army Policy 

Towards Aviation, 1919-1941. Diss., Indiana U, 1976. 

(LB 2379 1976 .T21) 

Tretler, David A. Opportunity Missed: Congressional Reorganization of the Army Air 

Service 1917-1920. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: AF Inst of Technology, 1978. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 062 715) 

United States. Cong. House. Committee on Military Affairs, Aeronautics in the Army. 

Hearings. - Washington: GPO, 1913. 

(Gov Doc Y4.M59/1:Ae8) 

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----- , Special Committee on Army Air Corps. Final Report of War Department 

Special Committee on Arm~ Air Corps. July 18, 1934. Washington: GPO, 1934. 

(Gov Doc W1.2:Ai7) 

Whelan, Paul A. “Military Airpower Developments after World War 11.” In The 

American Aviation Experience: A History. Edited by Tim Brady. 

Carbondale; Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 255-294. 

(TLB 3 1 1 .A5 12 2000) 

Whiteley, John F. Early Army Aviation: The Emerging Air Force. Manhattan, KS: 

Aerospace Historian, 1974. 

(UGH 207 .W59) 

Wildenberg, Thomas. All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the 

Origins of Carrier Airpower. Washington: Brassey’s, 2003. 

(V 63 .R44 W55 2003) 

Wright, Stephen E. Aerospace Strategy for the Aerospace Nation. Maxwell, AFB, AL: 

Air University, 1994. 

(UGB 901 1994 .W74) 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Arnold, Henry H. “Air Strategy for Victory.” Flying 33(0ct 1943): 50+ 

Arana-Barradas, Louis A. “The Risk Takers: Aviation Pioneers Helped Mold a 

Fledgling Air Force.” Airman 42 (Feb 2003): 2-9 

Bingham, Hiram. “Building America’s Air Army.” National Geographic 33 

(Jan 1918): 48-86 

Borowski, Harry R. “Air Force Atomic Capability from V-J Day to the Berlin 

Blockade: Potential or Real?” Military Affairs 44 (Oct 1980): 105-1 10 

Clodfelter, Mark. “Pinpointing Devastation: American Air Campaign Planning before 

Pearl Harbor.” Journal of Military History 58 (Jan 1994): 75-101 

Crouch, James L. “Wings South: The First Employment of Air Power by the United 

States.” Aerospace Historian 19 (Mar 1972): 27-3 1 

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Eastman, James N., Jr. “The Development of Big Bombers.” Aerospace Historian 

25 (Winter/Dec 1978): 21 1-219 

Ennels, Jerome A. “Chennault’s Trapezers: How One Team Revived and Revolutionized 

Fighter Tactics.” Air Power History 41 (Spring 1994): 14-21 

Gibson, Billy R. “Casey Lowers the Boom: A Short History of Aerial Refueling.” 

Aerospace Historian 15 (Summer 1968): 12-17 

Hall, R. Cargill. “To Acquire Strategic Bombers: The Case of the B-58 Hustler.” 

Air University Review 3 1 (SepUOct 1980): 2-20 

Hoyt, Ross G. “Metamorphosis of the Fighter.” Air Force Magazine 58 (Oct 1975): 

80-85 

Knott, Richard. “Naval Aviation at 90.” Aviation Week & Space Technology 154 

(April 9,2001): 52-74 

Kohout, John J., Jr. “A Post-B-1 Look at the Manned Strategic Bomber.” Air University 

Review 30 (July/Aug 1979): 27-5 1 

Krauskopf, Robert W. “The Army and the Strategic Bomber, 1930-1939.” Pt. I, 

Military Affairs 22 (Summer 1958): 83-94; pt. 11, 23 (Winter 1959): 208-215 

McFarland, Stephen L. “The Evolution of the American Strategic Fighter in Europe, 

1942-44.” Journal of Strategic Studies 10 (June 1987): 189-208 

McKnew, Thomas W. Fledgling Wings of the Air Force.” National Geographic 

Magazine 112 (Aug 1957): 266-271 

Meilinger, Philip S. “The Impact of Technology and Design Choice on the DevelopMent of U. s. Fighter Aircraft.” American Aviation Historical Society 

Journal 36 (Spring 1991): 60-69 

Millett, Stephen M. “The Capabilities of the American Nuclear Deterrent, 1945-1950.” 

AerosDace Historian 27 (Mar 1980): 27-32 

Mitchell, William. “America in the Air: Future of Airplane and Airship in National 

Defense.” National Geographic 39 (Mar 192 1): 339-352 

----- . “Has the Airplane Made the Battleship Obsolete?” World’s Work 41 

(April 1921): 550-555 

Richey, Suzanne. “Airways Communications- the Beginning of World War 11.” 

Aerospace Historian 35 (Fall/Sept 1988): 209-21 1 

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Roman, Peter J. “Strategic Bombers over the Missile Horizon, 1957-1963.” 

Journal of Strate,gic Studies 18 (Mar 1995): 198-236 

Scamehorn, Howard L. “American Air Transport and Airpower Doctrine in 

World War 11.” Airpower Historian 8 (July 1961): 148-155 

Snyder, Thomas S. “Cadet Pilot Training at Chanute Field during the Great War.” 

Aerospace Historian 25 (Spring/Mar 1978): 3 1-35 

Todd, Frederick. “What War Will Be with Flying Machines.” World’s Work 

17 (Nov 1908): 1091 1-10922 

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THE FUTURE 

BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

The Aerospace Force: Defending America in the 21St Century- a White Paper on 

Aerospace Integration. Washington: Dept of the Air Force, 2000. 

(Gov Doc D 301.2:AE 8/10) 

Barnett, Jeffery R. An Assessment of Aerospace Campaigns in 2010. Maxwell AFB, 

AL: Air University, 1996. 

(UGK 821 .B261 1996; Gov Doc MF D 301.26/6:F98; 

Report Lit ADA 306 640; Report Lit MF ADA 306 640) 

Colella, Robert A. De-Ranged: - Global Power and Air Mobility for the New Millenium. 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Pr, 2002. 

(Report Lit ADA 403 3 15) 

Costigan, Michael J. The F-22: The Right Fighter for the Twenty-First Century? 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1997. 

(UGB 5 .A68) 

Francis, William W., 11. Coercive Air Strategy in Post-Cold War Peace Operations. 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1999. 

(Report Lit ADA 391 616) 

Jackson, Jack A., Brian L. Jones, and Lee J. Lehmkuhl. An Operational Analysis for 

Air Force 2025: An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and 

Space Capabilities. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1996. 

(Report Lit ADA 392 587; Report Lit MF ADA 392 587) 

Khalilzad, Zalmay, and Jeremy Shapiro, eds. Strategic Appraisal: United States Air and 

Space Power in the 21St Century. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002. 

(Report Lit RAND MR-1314-AF) 

Oliver, David, and Mike Ryan. Warplanes of the Future. London: Salamander, 2000. 

(UGH 2151.048 2000) 

Pierrot, Lane. A Look at Tomorrow’s Tactical Air Forces. Washington: Congressional 

Budget Office, 1997. 

(Gov Doc Y 20.3:AI 7/3) 

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Rip, Michael R., and James M. Hasik. The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of 

Aerial Warfare. Annapolis: Naval Inst Pr, 2002. 

(UGK 21 .R588 2002) 

Shaevitz, Max D. Airpower in the Next Millenium. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 

1997. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 397 298) 

Sweetman, Bill. Aircraft 2000: The Future of Aerospace Technology. New York: 

Military Pr, 1984. 

(TLD 741 .S97 1984) 

Thompson, G. Larry. The Quick Response Air Force. Decisive Expeditionary Airpower 

for the Future? Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University, 1996. 

(Report Lit MF ADA 398 257) 

Whittington, Michael C. A Separate Space Force: An 80-Year-Old Argument. 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Pr, 2000. 

(Report Lit ADA 378 853) 

PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Clodfelter, Mark. “Airpower versus Asymmetric Enemies: A Framework for 

Evaluating Effectiveness.” Air & Space Power Journal 16 (Fall 2002): 37-46 

Cross, William V. 11. “Knowledge, Strength, Agility: A Vision- and Course - for the 

New Millenium.” Sea Power 42 (June 1999): 27-30 

Deptula, David A. “Air Force Transformation: Past, Present, and Future.” Aerospace 

Power Journal 15 (Fall 2001): 85-91 

Hallion, Richard P. “The Future of Air Power.” Royal United Services Institute Journal 

146 (June 2001): 52-61 

Manske, Chad T. “Looking Ahead: Future Airlift.” Air Force Journal of Loaistics 26 

(Spring 2002): 12-2 1 + 

Meilinger, Philip S. “Precision Aerospace Power, Discrimination, and the Future of 

War.” Royal Air Force Air Power Review 4 (Autumn 2001): 14-26 

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Mustin, Jeff. “Future Employment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” Aerospace Power 

Journal 16 (Summer 2002): 86-97 

Odom, Earl. “Future Missions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” Aerospace Power 

Journal 16 (Summer 2002): 84-85 

Roos, John G. “CONOPS (Concept of Operations) 2020: Air Force Lays Out Broad 

Concept for Future Aerospace Operations.” Armed Forces Journal International 

138 (June 2001): 52-54+ 

Tirpak, John A. “War and Transformation.” Air Force Magazine 85 (July 2002): 76-79 

_____ . “Wings to Come.” Air Force Magazine 84 (Sept 2001): 82-89 

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BOOKS, REPORTS, AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS 

Buydos, John F. Aircraft. Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. 

(GOV DOC LC 33.1O:OO-4) 

Fifty Years of Human Engineering: History and Cumulative Bibliography of the 

Fitts Human Engineering Division. Edited by Rebecca J. Green, Herschel 

C. Self, and Tanya S. Ellifritt. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: AF Materiel 

Command, 1995. 

(Z 5064 .D4 G74 1995; Gov Doc D 301.2: H88) 

Gubert, Betty K. Invisible Wings: An Annotated Bibliography on Blacks in Aviation, 

1916-1993. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 

(Z 5065 .U5 G83 1994) 

Meilinger, Phillip S. Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources. 

Maxwell AFB, AL: Air U, 2001. 

(Report Lit ADA 398 817; library also has in MF) 

Mitchell, Frank G. 25 Years of Progress: A Bibliopraphy of Research Materials and 

References in the Field of Aviation/Aerospace Education, 1963-1988. 

Wichita, KS: F. G. Mitchell, 1989. 

(Z 5064 .S89 M57 1989) 

Roland, Alex. A Guide to Research in NASA History. Washington: National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979. 

(TLD 75 .R74) 

Smith, Myron J., Jr. American Wamlanes 1908-1988: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: 

Meckler, 199 1. 

(Z 6725 .U5 S57 1991) 

Young, Pearl I. Octave Chanute, 1832-1910; the Contributions of an American Civil 

Engineer to the Improvement of Railroads, Railroad Bridges, Timber 

Preservation, and Aeronautics: A Bibliography. San Francisco: Sterne, 1963. 

(Z 5851 .Y7) 

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PERIODICAL ARTICLES 

Bright, Charles D. “Aviation Literature: A Changing Art.” Aerospace Historian 

31 (Spring 1984): 68-73 

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