Anonymous (possibly Florence Whitehead, Geary Co. Commissioner & Pres. of Geary Co. Historical Soc.) Up in the Wild Blue Yonder:  100 Years of Aviation in Geary County Kansas, Geary County Historical Society & Musuems, Junction City, KS. 2010;  a calendar (Aug.2010-Dec.2011) with 19 captioned historic photos of Geary County (and Junction City) aircraft, aviators, airports and more.

Headberg, James Robert, with Brent A. Headberg (editor), Kay Headberg McKaig (translator), Plow Boy to Fly Boy [Kindle Edition e-book], published by Brent A. Headberg, June 20, 2008 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B002YX0N1W June 20, 2008, 199pp. aubiography of an aviation worker, rising from rural roots in southern Kansas, through war, to building a half-dozen airplanes, to crafting lunar spacecraft parts.

Harwood, William B., * Raise Heaven and Earth: The Story of Martin Marietta People and Their Pioneering Achievements., 1993, Simon & Schuster, NY (an official -- but surprisingly candid -- history of Martin-Marietta Corp. (part of today's Lockheed-Martin) and its source companies. Particularly detailed about the Glenn L. Martin Co., and its leaders, especially Martin -- a Kansas-bred major pioneer of American aviation and space industry -- chief rival to the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, whom he far outlasted. Detailed chapters on Martin's early life in Kansas; notes about his return-visits to Kansas in later life).

Rowe, Frank J. & Miner, Craig. Borne on the South Wind: A Century of Kansas Aviation . Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing Co., Wichita . 1994. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT REFERENCE WORK ON KANSAS AVIATION HISTORY. Written by Rowe (a senior aerospace engineer for Beech) and Miner (a history professor at Wichita State Univ.), this is the probably the most wide-ranging book on Kansas Aviation History, with the most comprehensive coverage of important themes, companies and individuals.

Wagner, William, with Lee Dye, Ryan, the Aviator: Being the Adventures and Ventures of Pioneer Airman and Businessman T. Claude Ryan, McGraw-Hill; (1971), 253pp., with multiple chapters on Ryan's Kansas upbringing.

Bauer, George R., A Century of Kansas City Aviation History: The Dreamers and the Doers, 198pp., Historic Preservation Press; 1st edition, 1999. ISBN-10: 0965876128; ISBN-13: 978-0965876124

Weyand, Ken., Managing Ed., et.al, Aviation History in Greater Kansas City, 102pp., Historic Aviation Magazine, Cub Flyers Publications, Kansas City, Kansas; 1974. LOC: 74-119630

Reed, Earl C., A Brief Photographic History of Early Midwest Aviation - Including Airmail & Commercial Aircraft - Plus Kansas City Regional Airport Directory, Publisher: Earl C. Reed, 1960, 84pp., ASIN: B001Q798OU

Gooch, U.L. "Rip", with Glen Sharp Gooch, Black Horizons: One Aviator's Experience in the Post-Tuskegee Era, Aviation Business Consultants, Wichita, Kansas, 2006, ISBN-10: 0978676203, ISBN-13: 978-0978676209, autobiography of former Kansas State Senator, an "almost" Tuskeegee Airman, who built an exceptional postwar aviation career in the Air Capital City. Inside stories from Wichita aviation history 1940s-1980s, including rarely covered topics.

Larsen, Steve A., McConnell Air Force Base ("Images of Aviation" series / Kansas), 128pp., Arcadia Publishing, Dec.8, 2008, ISBN-10: 0738561835, ISBN-13: 978-0738561837, picture book with descriptive captions of images from the history of McConnell Air Force Base (originally the Wichita Municipal Airport), by the base historian, a military historian and history instructor for nearby Butler Community College.

Price, Jay M., Ph.D., and the AIAA Wichita Section, Wichita's Legacy of Flight ("Images of America" series), developed with the Wichita Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Arcadia Publishing, Sept.21, 2003, 128pp., picture book with descriptive captions of images from throughout the history of Wichita aviation, including intriguing inside-the-industry photos, and faces of its most famous founders and pioneers. Price is Prof. of History, Wichita State Univ.

VanSoyoc, Mary C., A Lifetime of Chances, Parkwood Press 1996, ISBN-10: 0964906503, ISBN-13: 978-0964906501; autobiography of the nation's first female air traffic controller, who operated the control tower of the Wichita Municipal Airport -- at the Boeing factory in southeast Wichita -- during World War II.

Thompson, Susan, Prairie Runways: The History of Wichita's Original Municipal Airport, Kansas Aviation Museum, Wichita, Kansas, 2000, ISBN-10: 0966645103 ISBN-13: 978-0966645101

• Air Transport Assn., The Airline Handbook-Online Version , 2003, online at http://www.airlines.org/public/publications/display1.asp?nid=961

• Angellucci, Enzo, Aircraft: from the Dawn of Flight to the Present Day , 1971, Arnoldo Mondadore Editore, Milan/Venice, translated 1982 ed., Greenwich/Crown, London

• Aviation Week & Space Technology , Aerospace Annual (later titled Global Outlook ), various issues, 1982-present

• de Saint Croix, Philip, ed., with William Green, Gordon Swainborough, John Mowninski, Bill Gunston, et. al. *Modern Commercial Aircraft , Salamander/Crown, London/NY, 1987.

• Donald, David, The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft , 1st ed., 1997, Aerospace Publishing/Orbis, London, and 1999 Barnes & Noble, NY  (THE most complete single-volume compendium of world aircraft, throughout history, currently in print and general circulation)

• Fitzgerald, John, ed., World Aerospace Development , 1993, Cornhill, London

• Hinkel, Ralph E. & Leo Baron (fwd. by Jack Frye, TWA president), An Educational Guide in Air Transporation , 1944, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (later Trans World Airlines - TWA), Kansas City, MO

• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), United Nations, Annual Review of Civil Aviation, ICAO Journal , July 2000

• Jerram, Mike, Business Aircraft Special Directory , Air International , Sept., 1997, Stamford, U.K.

• Kingsley-Jones with AirClaims, " World Airliner Census, part I, Major Airlines ," Flight International , 2003, U.K.

• _______________________ , " World Airliner Census, part II, Regional Airlines ," Flight International , 2003, U.K.

• Mondey, David, ed., with John Cook, Michael John Hooks, & Chris Chant, The Encyclopedia of The World's Commercial and Private Aircraft , Aerospace Publishing & Hamlyn / Crescent & Crown, London/NY, 1981.

• Müller, Claudio, ed., Flugzeuge von die Wold (Aircraft of the World) , Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurich, 2003 / Mud Puddle Books, Inc., NY, 2004. (compendium of current production aircraft worldwide)

• Taylor, John W.R., (ed., Jane's All the World's Aircraft ),  Civil Aircraft of the World , 1972, Chas. Scribner & Sons, NY

• ...and specifically:

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• HISTORIC AVIATION

  • Bach, Richard, Nothing by Chance , (autobiography of modern barnstormer, reliving Golden Age barnstorming with period aircraft).

  • Berliner, Don, Record-Breaking Airplanes , 1985, Lerner, Minneapolis

  • Bryan, C.D.B,  National Air & Space Museum:  Air ,  Smithsonian Institution, ca.1979

  • Burke, John, Amelia Earhart: Flying Solo,  Flying Point Press / Sterling Publishing, 2007, NY & Toronto, Canada (abridged, and updated, from author's original -- Winged Legend: The Story of Amelia Earhart -- published by her widower's company: G.P. Putnam's Sons)

  • Cadogan, Mary, Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact & Fiction , 1993, Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, Illinois

  • Casey, Gerry A., Flying As it Was:  True Stories from Aviation's Past , 1987, TAB, Blue Ridge Summit, Penn. (detailed accounts, largely first-hand, of encounters with many important aircraft & aviators during aviation's "Golden Age," by noted general aviation history writer & pioneer aviator).

  • Corn, Joseph J. (former fellow, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution),   The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950 ,  Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1983.

  • Chanute, Octave ("the Godfather of Aviation") Progress in Flying Machines , originally published in 1894, this version by Cory Kotowsky & Gary Bradshaw (full orig. text, 2/3 of the pictures). Sections reflecting the 27 articles first written for The Railroad & Engineering Journal . Now in Digital Library of the the Invention of the Airplane , part of the Virtual Museum of the Invention of the Airplane. Online at: http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Chanute/library/Prog_Contents.html

  • Crouch, Tom (curator, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution),   A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 ,  W.W. Norton, NY, 1981.

  • Duke, Neville, and Edward Lanchberry, ed., The Saga of Flight: an Anthology , with historical articles and essays originally written by daVinci, Graham Bell, B.Franklin, d'Arlandes, Santos-Dumont, Wright Bros., Bleriot, Churchill, Fokker, Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Amussen, Byrd, Murchie, de Saint-Exupery, Erhart, Cochran, Mignet, Ellsworth, Boyington, Sakai, Galland, Yeager, Glenn, U.S. Navy, et. al.; John Day / Avon-Hearst, NY, 1961/1964.

  • Emme, Eugene M. (NASA Historian; fwd. by Hugh Dryden), Aeronautics & Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science & Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960 , (aviation & spaceflight history) National Aeronautics & Space Administration, 1961, GPO, Washington, D.C.

  • Flying Magazine, "50th Anniversary Issue" , September 1977 (432-page comprehensive history of aviation, with particular detail on general aviation, written by major industry writers, leaders & historians)

  • _____________ , "75th Anniversary Issue" , August, 2002 (150-page anecdotal history of aviation; particular detail on general aviation; selected excerpts from 75 years of Flying )

  • Forden, Lesley, The Ford Air Tours, 1925-1931, 2003 Edition,  1972/2002, Aviation Foundation of America,

  • Gambrill, Jeremy, & Derek Wood, ed., Timechart History of Aviation , 2001, Lowe & B. Hould/Borders, London

  • Gilbert, James, The Great Planes , Ridge Press / Madison Square / Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1970

  • Harwood, William B., * Raise Heaven and Earth: The Story of Martin Marietta People and Their Pioneering Achievements., 1993, Simon & Schuster, NY (an official -- but surprisingly candid -- history of Martin-Marietta Corp. (part of today's Lockheed-Martin) and its source companies. Particularly detailed about the Glenn L. Martin Co., and its leaders, especially Martin -- a Kansas-bred major pioneer of American aviation and space industry -- chief rival to the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, whom he far outlasted).

  • Hatfield, D.D, ed., Pioneers of Aviation , 1976, Northrop University Press, Inglewood, CA

  • Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. (Ed.) et. al., Arthur Gordon, Marvin W. McFarland, et. al., (introduction by Gen. Carl A. Spaatz and Gen. Ira C. Eaker), The American Heritage History of Flight , 1962, American Heritage / Simon & Schuster,  NY. (oversized, 400-page, comprehensive, authoritative history of world aviation, from ancient history to 1962, with particular detail on early aviation, major sections on Golden Age and World War II, and exceptional photographs)

  • Lindbergh, Charles A., The Spirit of St. Louis , 1998 reprint, Scribner, NY (the definitive work, by Lindbergh himself).

  • Loftin, Laurence K., Jr,  Quest for Performance : The Evolution of Modern Aircraft, NASA History Office publication, NASA SP-468, NASA Scientific & Technical Information Branch, Washington, D.C. 1985. (traces aircraft technical development since World War I), online at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-468/cover.htm

  • Nicholls, Mike, ed., Century of Flight:  A Celebration of 100 years of powered flight 1903-2003 , Key Publishing, Stamford, U.K.

  • Royal Aeronautical Society, 100 Years of Flight , (the History section contains information about the Wright Brothers as well as notable pilots, theorists, industry pioneers and space pioneers within the last century.) Available from: http://www.raes.org.uk/public2003

  • Schamburger, Page and Joe Christy, *Command the Horizon: A Pictorial History of Aviation , 1968, Castle Books/A.S. Barnes & Co., NY,  (an exceptionally thorough history of U.S. aviation from Civil War balloons to start of World War II, 325 pp., oversized, by two famed expert aviator/writers, with vignettes dictated or written by pioneer aviators, and extraordinary collection of rare and historic photos).

  • Smith, Elinor, Aviatrix , 1981, Harcourt Brace Javonovich, New York (early aviation history and autobiography by famed aviator, trained by Orville Wright, colleague & friend of Lindbergh, Earhart, Doolittle & Thaden) (endorsed by Doolittle and NASM/Smithsonian curator Tom Crouch)

  • Taylor, John W.R., Aircraft, Aircraft! , (World aviation history, by the editor of Jane's All the World's Aircraft ), 1967, Hamlyn, London

  • Vivian, E. Charles, A History of Aeronautics , originally published 1920, this is Project Gutenberg "e-text," Release #874 (April 1997). distributed by Professor Michael S. Hart through the Project Gutenberg Association at Carnegie-Mellon University. Available from: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=874

  • Wright, Orville, "How We Made the First Flight," originally published in Flying and The Aero Club of America Bulletin, Dec. 1913, reprint by Federal Aviation Administration, APA-6-155-88, ca.2001, (reprinted completely by FAA; edited by Michael E. Wayda; introduction by Dr. Paul E. Garber, Historian Emeritus, NASM/Smithsonian), Office of Public Affairs, Aviation Education Program, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Washington, D.C.

  • Villard, Henry Serrano   CONTACT!:   The Story of the Early Birds:   Man's first decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I , Bonanza/Crown (Crowell), NY (UK), 1968   (detailed history and collective biographies of the world's first airplane-aviators -- the "Early Birds" -- and their aircraft, and the evolution of early aviation, between the Wright Brothers' first flights and World War I.)

  • Wagner, William, with Lee Dye, Ryan, the Aviator: Being the Adventures and Ventures of Pioneer Airman and Businessman T. Claude Ryan, McGraw-Hill; (1971), 253pp., with multiple chapters on Ryan's Kansas upbringing.

  • Yenne, Bill:  Seaplanes & Flying Boats:   A Timeless Collection from Aviation's Golden Age , BCL Press, NY, 2003   (thorough history and description of nearly all major seaplanes, 1911 to modern times, with particular emphasis on Golden Age, WWII & postwar flying boats, including those by Kansas-bred Glenn L. Martin.)

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• GENERAL AVIATION
  

  • Aviation Consumer magazine, Used Aircraft Guide, 1980

  • Berger, Alain-Yves and Norman Burr,   (foreword by Paul H. Poberezny, Pres. EAA), * Berger-Burr's Ultralight and Microlight Aircraft of the World, 2nd. ed., a Foulis aviation book, France / J.H.Haynes Co., Sparkford, England, U.K., , 1985; Massive, 500-page, detailed, illustrated encyclopedia and catalog of ultralight and microlight aircraft. Some Kansas planemakers and developers listed.

  • Business & Commercial Aviation :  Buying Guide & Handbook , various annuals, 1983-1997

  • Downie, Julia, Kitplanes 2001 Annual Directory, Primedia, San Diego, CA & Harrisburg, PA

  • Ellis, James E., Buying and Owning Your Own Airplane , 2nd ed., 1991, Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, IA (by widely experienced commercial general aviation pilot. Includes extensive analyses of most major general aviation aircraft in current use, including acquisition, operations, maintenance and ownership issues).

  • Ethell, Jeffrey, Used Aircraft Guide , 1979, Charles Scribners & Sons, NY

  • Flying Annual & Buyer's Guide , various annuals, 1965-1973  (industry's chief catalog and data analysis of current general aviation aircraft)

  • King, Jack L., Corporate Flying , 1979, Aviation Book Co., Glendale CA (author is former NACA-Langley engineer, combat pilot, test pilot and famed corporate pilot; co-founder Professional Pilot magazine), (book endorsed by head of General Aviation Mfr's. Ass'n, Special Programs director of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., former FAA Deputy Director and president of Flight Safety Foundation.)

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  • GENERAL AVIATION HISTORY
    
    

    • Abel, Alan & Drina Welch Abel & Paul Matt, Aeronca's Golden Age , 2001, Wind Canyon, Niceville, FL

    • Carson, Annette, Flight Fantastic: The Illustrated History of Aerobatics, 1986, Haynes, Sparkford, England, U.K. / Newbury Park, Calif.; Detailed 300-page history of aerobatics in the U.S. and abroad, indexed, with extensive appendicies.

    • deVries, John A., Col., USAF (ret'd), *Alexander Eaglerock: A History of the Alexander Aircraft Company , Century One Press, Colorado Springs, 1985

    • Dwiggins, Don, The Air Devils: The Story of Balloonists, Barnstormers and Stunt Pilots, 1966, J.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia/New York.; Detailed 300-page history of aerobatics in the U.S. and abroad, indexed, with extensive appendicies. 220-page history of exhibition and stunt aviators (chiefly Americans).

    • Hollenbaugh, Bob & John Houser, Aeronca: A Photo History , Aviation Heritage, Destin, FL, 1995 (by Aeronca's former experimental shop boss & former design engineer, verified by phone interviews with them, Feb, 2004)

    • Kobernuss, Fred WACO - Symbol of Courage and Excellence (Volume 1) , Sunshine House, Inc., Terre Haute, Indiana, 1992

    • Pattillo, Donald, A History in the Making: 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry, 1st edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1998. Prodigious large, detailed history of general aviation. Extensive chronology and historic details on most U.S. general aviation aircraft manufacturers, and the industry, generally; focus seems chiefly on business history, with technology and market issues seemingly well-covered.

    • Schamburger, Page and Joe Christy, *Command the Horizon: A Pictorial History of Aviation , 1968, Castle Books/A.S. Barnes & Co., NY,  (exceptionally thorough history of U.S. aviation from Civil War balloons to start of World War II, with vignettes written or dictated by pioneer aviators, and extraordinary collection of rare and historic photos; by two famed aviator/writers; exceptional coverage of general aviation history).

    • Szurovy, Geza, Wings of Yesteryear: The Golden Age of Private Aircraft , 1998, Motorbooks International (summary history of Golden Age private aviation and many of its leading aircraft and personalities; richly illustrated with modern photos of vintage aircraft)

    • Thomas, Stanley G. (forward by Ercoupe designer Fred Weick), *The Ercoupe , 1991, TAB/Aero (McGraw-Hill), NY

    • WACO Museum, History of the WACO Aircraft Company , online at http://www.wacoairmuseum.org/history/history_part1.html1999, WACO Museum & Aviation Learning Center, Troy Ohio (endorsed & linked to by the Waco Classic Aircraft Corp., current makers of Waco biplanes.)

    • Weick, Fred with James R. Hansen, *From the Ground Up:  The Autobiography of An Aeronautical Engineer (Navy/NACA engineer; former NACA research leader, renowned pioneer aerodynamicist and propeller expert, who also introduced tricycle landing gear, modern cropdusters, Ercoupe, and Piper Cherokee)
      
      

    • Westin, Larry, The Stinson 108 Voyager & Flying Station Wagon Page , ca.1998-2004, online at: http://personalpages.tdstelme.net/~westin/ac-0.htm(actually a comprehensive history website on all Stinson aircraft)

    • (see also " AIRCRAFT COMPANIES of KANSAS ", above)

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• MILITARY AVIATION & HISTORY
  

  
  

  • Aerospace Information Handbook , Vol. III, USAF Aerospace Vehicles , AFP 190-33, 15 Dec 1968, U.S. Air Force, GPO

  • Air Force Ass'n & Air Force magazine, in cooperation with the USAF:  The Air Force Almanac (various years' issues, 1971-2003)

  • Anderton David A., History of the U.S. Air Force , reprint: ca.1988

  • Barron, John, MiG Pilot , 1980/198, Avon, NY

  • Chant, Christopher, Air Forces of the World , 1983, HarperCollins Publishers

  • Chinese War Machine , Salamander Books, distrib. by New English Library/Crescent, London; 1979 (technical miltary study of China)

  • Cockburn, Andrew, The Threat:  Inside the Soviet Military Machine , 1983, Random House, New York (the classic counter to the Pentagon view of the 1980s, generally vindicated subsequently by revelations and public discoveries in post-Soviet Russia)

  • Dunagin, James F., How to Make War:  a Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare ("All the World's Weapons, Armed Forces & Tactics"), Updated Edition, Quill, NY, 1983 (classic summary and analysis of military technology, organization and practices)

  • Ethell, Jeffrey, noted warbird expert/pilot

    • ________, "Wings of the Great War ," Air & Space Smithsonian , Oct./Nov. 1991, Vol.6#4, p.60 (series of short first-person pilot reports on World War I aircraft, Allied and German, with historical background)

    • ________, Jeff Ethell's Pireps: AV-8B Harrier , Air & Space Smithsonian website, ca.1995

    • ________, Jeff Ethell's Pireps: F-16 Falcon , Air & Space Smithsonian website, ca.1995

  • Flight International , "World Air Forces: What they Fly," (global census and report) 2002 and 2003, U.K.

  • Franks, Norman, Aircraft Versus Aircraft: The Illustrated History of Fighter Pilot Combat from 1914 to the Present Day, Grub Street, London, 1998; Barnes & Noble, New York, 1999; Extensive history of development of air-to-air combat, with detailed, illustrated technical analyses, and extensive historic vignettes. Includes information about James Jabara -- USAF's first jet ace, of Wichita, Kansas -- including transcription of Jabara's own personal account of the specific combat event that made him an ace.

  • Frawley, Gerard, International Directory of Military Aircraft, 1998/99 , Aerospace Publications, Pty.Ltd., Fyshwick, Australia, 1998

  • Gervasi, Tom, Arsenal of Democracy II:   American Military Power in the 1980's and the Origins of the New Cold War ,  Grove Press; October 1981 (scholarly analysis of all significant U.S. weapon systems in use, on order or in final development, and the global military environment for them.)

  • Gething, Michael J., Warsaw Pact Air Power in the 1980s: ,   Arms & Armour Press, London, 1982   1981 (review of Soviet and Eastern European military aircraft of the 1980s)

  • Gunston, Bill, Military Aviation Library:  Modern United States Aircraft , 1985, Salamander, London/Chartwell, NY

  • __________, Air Commodore John F. Davis & Richard Humble, War Planes, 1945-1976 , Salamander, 1975, London (global study)

  • Institute for Strategic Studies, The Strategic Balance, 1999 , London, ...and issues from various other years. (World's chief single-volume standard reference on armed forces and military arsenals.)

  • Lawson, Don, The United States in World War I , 1957, Abelard-Schuman, Ltd., London

  • __________, The United States in the Korean War , 1958, Abelard-Schuman, Ltd., London

  • LeMay, Gen. Curtiss E., USAAF/USAF (commander of most B-29's in World War II and Korean War; First SAC Commander; later Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force) and Bill Yenne, *Superfortress: The B-29 and American Air Power , McGraw-Hill, NY, 1988.

  • Mason, Herbert Molloy, Jr., The United States Air Force:   A Turbulent History , Mason/Charter, NY, 1976

  • Miller, Lt.Cmdr.H.B., USN, Navy Wings , revised ed., 1942, Dodd-Mead, NY (semi-official history of U.S. Naval Aviation)

  • Polman, Norman, U.S. Naval Institute:  The Ships & Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet , 13th ed., Naval Institute Press, 1965-1984, Annapolis, MD

  • Prados, John, The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence Analysis & American Strength , 1982, Dial, NY

  • Robinson, Anthony (foreward by Air Vice-Marshal Stewart Menaul, RAF), Air Forces of the World , 1980/1982, Orbis/Crescent, London/NY

  • U.S. Naval Historical Center, Kite Balloons to Airships:   the Navy's Lighter-than-Air Experience , monograph at U.S. Naval Historical Center website; many chapters covering U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air history. A series of PDF files, online at http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/lta-m.html

  • U.S. Air Force, Air War - Vietnam: , Arno Press/New York Times, NY, 1978 (semi-official anecdotal history of U.S. military air operations during the Vietnam War)

  • Whitehouse, Arch, Years of the Sky Kings , (respected aviation history of WWI)
    
    

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  • WORLD WAR II
    

    
    

    • Anderton David A., U.S. Fighters of World War II , Crescent, London, ca.1981

    • Brickhill, Paul, Reach for the Sky : The Story of Douglas Bader, Naval Institute Press; 2001 (biography of Britain's most remarkable WWII ace, a Hurricane pilot)

    • Boyington, Gregory "Pappy", Baa, Baa, Black Sheep , (original Flying Tiger, and a leading Marine Corps ace) (note:  interviewed this author, and received from him another officially fictional book about his Flying Tiger years, Tonya ,which he described as autobiographical and historical, except for altered names).

    • Churchill, Winston, The Second World War , 7-volume set (various publishers and dates) (acclaimed war history and analysis, and wartime memoirs, of Britain's wartime Prime Minister -- and defacto Commander-in-Chief.)

    • Davisson, Budd, ed., et.al. World War II Fighters , 2000, Ridgfield, CT  (special issue of Flight Journal , with comparative analyses & historical background on each major fighter aircraft of WWII, including review of the findings of the Joint Conference on Allied Fighters);  Co-authors include Capt. Eric Brown (most-decorated WWII Royal Navy ace, chief Royal Navy test pilot), Corky Meyer (founder, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 1st civilian pilot carrier-qualified by U.S.Navy). Bud Mahurin (1st USAAF double-ace in Europe; fighter squadron commander, WWII & Korea), and Barrett Tillman (historian; pilot experience in many military aircraft, modern and historic).

    • Dean, Jack, "Rating the Major Air Forces of World War II," Airpower , May 2000, Vol.30, #3, pp.8-55 (special issue, summarizing the plane-by-plane findings of postwar Allied study by the Joint Conference on Allied Fighters, with comparative assessments of each major WWII combat aircraft of U.S., U.K.,  France, U.S.S.R., Italy, Germany & Japan, particularly vis-a-vis their opponents -- with further detail notes about each major WWII bomber and attack plane.)

    • Deighton, Len, The Battle of Britain , Smithmark Publishing; 1st American Edition, 1983; the leading, most-respected history of the decisive turning point in the war in Europe (Hitler's first and most pivotal defeat), fought entirely in the sky.

    • __ _________, Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain , reprint: 1977, Vintage/Ebury (Div. of Random House Group);

    • Eisenhower, Dwight D., Gen., U.S. Army (WWII Supreme Allied Commander in Europe), Crusade in Europe , Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1948 (war history and analysis -- and personal memoirs -- of the Allies' supreme commander in Europe, including "inside" history and analysis of WWII airpower.)

    • Ethell, Jeff, leading warbird expert and pilot/instructor:

      • _____, Thunderbolt Flight Report - pilot's video tutorial on Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

      • _____, Jeff Ethell's Pireps: B-17 Flying Fortress , Air & Space Smithsonian website, ca.1995

      • _____, Jeff Ethell's Pireps: P-51 Mustang , Air & Space Smithsonian website, ca.1995

      • _____, Jeff Ethell's Pireps: Supermarine Spitfire , Air & Space Smithsonian website, 1995

    • Franklin, Noble, Bomber Offensive: The Devastation of Europe , 1970, Ballantine, NY

    • Galland, Adolph, The First & the Last , 1969, Ballantine Books, NY, (memoirs of General of the Fighter Arm of the Luftwaffe, one of top five WWII aces & air combat commanders; world's 1st jet ace; instructed in Britain's 1st jet, after WWII)

    • Gurney, Gene, Maj., USAF (fwd. by Gen. Curtiss LeMay) The War in the Air , Bonanza, 1962 (WWII aerial history)

    • Jablonski, Edward, AirWar, Vol.I:   Terror from the Sky , Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1971 (detailed history of the early air war in Europe, particularly evolution of mid-century aerial warfare, early Blitzkrieg, and the Battle of Britain)

    • ______________, AirWar, Vol.II:   Tragic Victories , Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1971 (detailed accounts of key aspects of the air war in Europe and Pacific, including German strategic and terror/depopulation bombing, Allied strategic bombing [Allied terror/depopulation bombing omitted], the Flying Tigers in China, Pearl Harbor, Doolittle's Tokyo Raid and the Battle of Midway; with political comments)

    • ______________, Flying Fortress , Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1968 ( the classic study of the Boeing B-17 bomber)

    • LeMay, Gen. Curtiss E., USAAF/USAF (commander of most B-29's in World War II and Korean War; First SAC Commander; later Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force) and Bill Yenne, *Superfortress: The B-29 and American Air Power , McGraw-Hill, NY, 1988.

    • Lord, Walter, Day of Infamy . New York: Holt Reinhart Winston,. 1957; the pre-eminent account of the of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941 -- precipitating the U.S. entry into World War II. Both vivid anecdotal detail and comprehensive overview of prologue, event, and aftermath. Basis of the motion picture Tora! Tora! Tora!(Corroborated in conversations with various survivors of the attack.)

    • __________, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway . Pocket Books 1968 First Edition; the pre-eminent history and account of the most decisive turning-point in the war in the Pacific -- the defeat of the Japanese fleet around Midway Island, in the mid-Pacific. Both vivid anecdotal detail and comprehensive overview of prologue, event, and aftermath. Basis of the motion picture Midway

    • Mondey, David, ed., Axis Aircraft of World War II, (The Hamlyn Concise Guide to...) , Aerospace Publishing & Hamlyn / Chancellor-Bounty-Octopus, London; Chartwell, Edison, N.J., 1984/1996. (detailed history, description, specifications and performance data, drawings and photos of 137 Axis aircraft of WWII)

    • Okumiya, Masatake and Jiro Horikoshi, with Martin Caidin. Zero! , NY, Dutton, 1959; Ballantine Books, ca.1979 (The Pacific air war, from Japanese viewpoint, particularly as related by Zero pilots, commanders and aircraft designers).

    • Overy, R.J.,   The Air War:   1939-1945 ,   Stein & Day, NY, 1980   (576-page, heavily docmented, detailed history and analysis of aerial warfare in World War II.)

    • Ryan, Cornelius,  The Longest Day: June 6, 1944  , Simon & Schuster, NY, 1959; reprinted as D-Day & The Invasion of Normandy , 1962 (detailed history and eyewitness accounts by American journalist on the scene; the pre-eminent work on this event).

    • Sakai, Saburo, with Martin Caidin, Samurai! ,   Ballantine Books, ca.1970 (autobiography of Japan's most famed ace)

    • Shirer, William L, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , 1959, Simon & Schuster, NY; the pre-eminent, detailed history of the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler and his empire, and the War in Europe, as seen from both sides of the war, by the leading U.S. war correspondent in Berlin (later Western Europe); includes personal encounters with the war's leaders on both sides, as well as extensive other details. Traditionally regarded as the definitive history of the Nazi regime.

    • __________, Berlin Diary , 1959, Simon & Schuster, NY; first-person account (from daily diary) of the rise of Adolph Hitler and the War in Europe, as seen from inside Germany, before the U.S. entry into WWII, as recorded by the leading U.S. war correspondent in Berlin; includes personal encounters with Hitler and his generals, as well as extensive other details.

    • Snyder, Louis L., (foreward by Eric Sevareid) The War: A Concise History, 1939-1945 ,  1960/1964, Messner/Dell, NY

    • Taylor, John W. R., British Combat Aircraft of World War II , Crescent, London, ca. 1981

    • U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Commission.  The Strategic Bombing Survey:  Europe

    • U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Commission.  The Strategic Bombing Survey:  Pacific

    • aircraft manuals :  Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, North American P-51 Mustang (various models), Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, Douglas DC-3 / C-47, and supplemental manuals for several other aircraft.
      
      

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• HELICOPTERS

  • Federal Aviation Agency,  (now "Administration"), Flight Standards Service, Basic Helicopter Handbook , AC61-13, GPO, Washington, D.C.

  • Gregory, Col. H.F., (director of U.S. Army's WWII helicopter-development program) The Helicopter: A Pictorial History , 1976, A.S. Barnes, NY

  • Gunston, Bill & John Batchelor, Helicopters, 1900-1960, 1977 Phoebus, London

  • Hirschberg, Michael J. and David K. Daley, U.S. and Russian Helicopter Development in the 20th Century , American Helicopter Society, International, 2000, Alexandria, VA  online at: http://www.vtol.org/History.htm  (detailed tertiary history, under the auspices of the AHS-International, by its magazine editor and an expert on U.S. and Russian rotorcraft.  Detailed business and technical history of most major manufacturers and their aircraft.)

  • Jeppesen-Sanderson, Inc., A&P Technician Airframe Textbook , Chap.1, Sec. C., " Fundamentals of Rotary Wing Aircraft ," 2002, Englewood, CO

  • Leishman, J. Gordon, (Prof. of Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Maryland), A History of Helicopter Flight , 2000, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (with excerpts from author's book Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics , Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000, Cambridge, UK), online at www.enae.umd.edu/AGRC/Aero/history.html (early global rotorcraft history and technical development; modern U.S., Russian and British developments, with summary histories of each country's major manufacturers and their aircraft).

  • Spenser, Jay P., Whirlybirds: A History of the U.S. Helicopter Pioneers , 1998,  University of Washington Press, Seattle (in-depth history of U.S. helicopter industry)

  • Vivian, E. Charles, A History of Aeronautics , originally published 1920, this is Project Gutenberg "e-text," Release #874 (April 1997). distributed by Professor Michael S. Hart through the Project Gutenberg Association at Carnegie-Mellon University. Online at: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=874

  • and many articles in Rotor & Wing, Rotor, Business & Commercial Aviation, Professional Pilot, Flying, AOPA Pilot, Private Pilot, Army Aviation, Air Force , and other periodicals.  Also see other categories, including: STEARMAN & BOEING (Piasecki became Boeing-Vertol), CESSNA (built record-breaking Seibel Skyhook helicopters; Seibel later key Bell engineer), and BEECH (built Bell helicopters).
    
    

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• TECHNICAL AERONAUTICS

  
  

  • Brown, Gregory N., & Mark J. Holt, The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual , 2nd ed., Iowa State Press/Blackwell, 1995/2001

  • Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft Data , AC#150/5325-5C, June 29, 1987, GPO, Washington, D.C.

  • ________________________, Airman's Information Manual , reprinted by Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA), 2000, Newcastle WA.

  • ________________________, Private Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Information , various editions, 1970-present, GPO, Washington, D.C.

  • ________________________, Type Certificate Data Sheets , on file, online, for most U.S.-certificated civil aircraft.

  • Jeppesen-Sanderson, Inc., A&P Technician Airframe Textbook , 2002, Englewood, CO

  • ___________________., A&P Technician Powerplant Textbook , 2002, Englewood, CO

  • ___________________., Flight Engineer's Manual , 9th ed., 1978, Englewood, CO (includes partial aircraft manuals of major 1950's-1970's era airliners)

  • Loftin, Laurence K., Jr,  Quest for Performance : The Evolution of Modern Aircraft, NASA History Office publication, NASA SP-468, NASA Scientific & Technical Information Branch, Washington, D.C. 1985. (traces aircraft technical development since World War I), online at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-468/cover.htm

  • McMasters, John H. (Boeing), and Russell M. Cummings, Calif. Polytechnic State Univ., "Airplane Design -- Past, Present, and Future,"Journal of Aircraft, Vol.39, No.1, Jan.-Feb., 2002, pp.10-17. Short tutorial on aerospace technology development history, with statistical data on aviation developments, and analysis of future challenges to aerospace engineers and their trade.

  • Talay, Theodore A., Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight , NASA Special Publication, NASA SP-367, published in 1975. (aerodynamics primer, with short history of flight, background, fluid flow, subsonic flow effects, transonic flow, supersonic flow, beyond the supersonic, performance, stability and control; appendices & bibliography. Full text is online (in HTML format) at  http://history.nasa.gov/SP-367/cover367.htm

  • Weick, Fred with James R. Hansen, *From the Ground Up:  The Autobiography of An Aeronautical Engineer (Navy/NACA engineer; renowned propeller expert; introduced tricycle landing gear, modern cropdusters, key general aviation aircraft)

  • Whitford, Ray, (Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Swindon, UK) " Fundamentals of Fighter Design ," 13-part series, published 1996-1998 in Air International

  • ___________________________________________________________, " Fundamentals of Airliner Design ," 20-part series, published 2001-2003 in Air International
    
    

• Aerospace Information Handbook , Vol. III, USAF Aerospace Vehicles , AFP 190-33, 15 Dec 1968, U.S. Air Force, GPO

• Air Force Ass'n & Air Force magazine, in cooperation with the USAF:  Space Almanac (various years' issues, 1971-2003)

• Bryan, C.D.B, National Air & Space Museum:  SPACE ,   Smithsonian Institution, ca.1979

• Emme, Eugene M. (NASA Historian), Aeronautics & Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science & Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960 , National Aeronautics & Space Administration, 1961, GPO, Washington, D.C.

• Garber, Stephen J., ed. Looking Backward, Looking Forward : Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium, NASA report, NASA SP-2002-4107, published 2002, proceedings of conference organized by NASA History Office, at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. May 2001;  human spaceflight retrospective, the astronauts' spaceflight experience, and analysis of future of human spaceflight. Speakers included John Logsdon, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Murray, Neil de Grasse Tyson & Bill Shepherd. Online (PDF format) from NASA History Office web site, at http://history.nasa.gov/sp4107.pdf

• Larson, George C., Space Shuttle Special:   100 missions and counting ;   special issue of Air & Space Smithsonian , Nov., 2000, NASM/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Neal, Valerie, Cathleen S. Lewis & Frank H. Winter, Smithsonian Guides:  Spaceflight , National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1995, Ligature/McMillan, NY
  
  

  
  

• Kansas-area aviation and historic museums
  (See full list at: http://ks100aviation.org/ks_museums.htm, including:
  • Kansas Aviation Museum, Wichita, KS
  • Combat Air Museum, Topeka, KS
  • Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, Hutchinson, KS
  • Airline History Museum, Kansas City, MO
  • Kansas Historical Society - Kansas Historical Museum , Topeka, KS
  • Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum , Wichita, KS
• major or special-interest aviation museums (e.g.:
  National Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute,
  National Museum of the U. S. Air Force,
  Museum of Flight, EAA AirVenture Museum, Staggerwing Museum, etc.) and others. and
• major organizations (NASA, FAA, NTSB, U.S. military, NAA/FAI, AIAA, EAA, AOPA, NBAA, ATA, Jane's, NAHF, Centennial of Flight Commission, National Air Tour, 99's, Women in Aviation, Int'l, etc) ,
• owner groups for specific aircraft (e.g.: Cessna Owners' Organization, American Bonanza Society, Short-Wing Piper Club.)