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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
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Include books by the same authorThe Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen · 39 pages
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes · 554 pages
"The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science."
Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing
Tom Clancy · 331 pages
I am Amelia Earhart
Brad Meltzer · 40 pages
Presents the life of the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
Slide Rule
Nevil Shute · 249 pages
A fantastic story of a life in the aviation industry, including being the senior mathematician on the R100 airship in Yorkshire and a co-founder of the Airspeed aircraft company.
East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Susan Butler · 489 pages
Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It's the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilar
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Rebecca Solnit · 305 pages
An original telling of the story of Eadweard Muybridge, who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically, thus making movies possible. Solnit uses the story of Muybridge as a lens for a larger story about the transformation of time and space by railroads, telegraphy, photography, and myriad other contributions to the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. She bol
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
Nikki Grimes · 48 pages
A biography of the woman who became the first licensed Afro-American pilot.
Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham
Mary S. Lovell · 421 pages
Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
Robert Matzen · 400 pages
Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton
Meghan Mccarthy · 48 pages
In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside, and even flying airplanes herself! She lived for an adventure—in the air, the water, and on land—and nothing could stop her, especially not being a girl. When Betty Skelton was young there weren’t many women flying airplanes or racing cars, but she
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Peter Sis · 40 pages
Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot--and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway places and discovered new ways of getting from one place to the next. Antoine flew over mount
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos · 385 pages
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations
Yeager: An Autobiography
Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos · 388 pages
Offers a personal glimpse of air pilot General Chuck Yeager. Yeager talks about his life and achievements, expressed in his own words.
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Karen Blumenthal · 310 pages
From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniak. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius--his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed al
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
James Wallace, Jim Erickson · 426 pages
Chronicles the career of "Chairman Bill" Gates, the computer whiz kid who commands the powerful Microsoft computer software empire.
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
Kathleen Krull · 40 pages
Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele · 687 pages
Howard Hughes: The Untold Story
Peter Harry Brown, Pat H. Broeske · 496 pages
Reach for the Sky
Paul Brickhill · 361 pages
A wonderful Biography of Douglas Bader, RAF pilot and ace of the Battle of Britain. He was extraordinary because both legs had to be amputated after a crash before the start of WWII and his tremendous wartime exploits and lifetime of accomplishments were with 2 artificial legs. I first read this book from my Jr high library and it has been a lifetime favorite I have re-read several times.