Aviation Enthusiast's Library: 37 Books on Airplanes
Early Aviation History, Flight Technology, and Adventure Tales from the Age of AirplanesBy Robert B. Meyer, V. E. Johnson, Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper, John B. Rathbun, Harry E. Maule, William D. Ennis, Charles B. Hayward, George Anthony Cavanagh, Alfred Powell Morgan, Stuart Walcott, W. LeMaitre, Jim Ray, C. B. Galbreath, Margaret Burnham, Herbert Strang, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Percy F. Westerman, L. Frank Baum, Gordon Stuart, Graham M. Dean, Roy J. Snell, James R. Driscoll, Roy Rockwood, E. J. Craine, Noel Sainsbury, Stanley R. Matthews, Robert Shaler, Herbert Eugene Ives
Length168h 49m
About this audiobook
Aviation Enthusiast's Library: 37 Books on Airplanes gathers a capacious body of early and popular aeronautical writing, tracing flight from technical curiosity to emblem of modern adventure. Its selections range across instructional exposition, engineering-minded description, speculative fiction, juvenile adventure, travel narrative, and popular science. Together, these works register the exhilaration and uncertainty of aviation's formative public culture, where the airplane appears variously as machine, instrument of exploration, military technology, and imaginative vehicle. The collection's breadth makes it especially valuable as a record of how air travel entered everyday literary consciousness. The contributing writers include journalists, inventors, aviation commentators, educators, and prolific authors of adventure and children's literature. Their varied professional and literary backgrounds situate the volume at the intersection of early twentieth-century technological modernism, mass-market publishing, and the culture of scientific instruction. Technical accounts lend authority and immediacy, while fictional and didactic narratives translate aeronautical developments into accessible stories of courage, mobility, and discovery. In concert, these voices reveal the cultural labor by which aviation became both intelligible and desirable to broad readerships. This volume is recommended for readers of aviation history, popular literature, children's writing, and modernity. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare styles and assumptions across a shared technological subject, inviting reflection on the dialogue between fact, fantasy, expertise, and public enthusiasm.
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GenreOther, General Fiction
Length168 hrs 49 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners
2CHAPTER I
3CHAPTER VI
4CHAPTER VIII
5Aeroplane Construction and Operation
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6Aeroplane Construction and Operation
7INTRODUCTION
8AERONAUTICAL MAGAZINES
9ENGLISH MAGAZINES.
10CHAPTER I. PRINCIPLES OF THE AEROPLANE.
11CHAPTER II. TYPES OF MILITARY AEROPLANES.
12CHAPTER III. ELEMENTARY AERODYNAMICS
13CHAPTER IV. EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORIES.
14CHAPTER V. AERODYNAMICS OF LIFTING SURFACES (AEROFOILS).
15CHAPTER VI. PRACTICAL WING SECTIONS. (pt. 1)
16CHAPTER VI. PRACTICAL WING SECTIONS. (pt. 2)
17CHAPTER VI. PRACTICAL WING SECTIONS. (pt. 3)
18CHAPTER VI. PRACTICAL WING SECTIONS. (pt. 4)
19Story of the Aeroplane
20The Ocean of Air
21Early Attempts at Aviation
22Early Flying Machines
23Nineteenth Century Experiments
24Claims of Maxim and Ader
25Langley’s Tandem Monoplane
26Experiments with Gliders
27Aviation at the Beginning of the Present Century
28The Kite
29The “Plane” Defined
30Essentials of the Aeroplane
31The Wright Brothers and Their Problem
32Balancing the Machine
33At Kitty Hawk
34The First Flight
35Machine Balanced by Warping of Planes
36Newspaper Reports Verified
37Trial Flights at Fort Meyer
38Fatal Accident
39Wilbur Wright Wins Fame in France
40Wright Brothers Honored
41United States Government Requirements Successfully Met
42Recent Improvements
43Future of the Aeroplane
44The Story of American Aviation
45The Story of American Aviation
46FOREWORD
47FIRST ARMY AIRPLANE
48THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
49DONALD DOUGLAS’ DREAM COMES TRUE
50THE U. S. NAVY’S FIRST LONG-RANGE FLYING BOATS
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