TOPIC CATEGORIES (details below):
GENERAL HISTORY & REFERENCE (For wars, see special category, MILITARY, below.) Bureau of the Census, U.S. Gov't., Historical Statistics of the
United States, 1789-1945: A supplement to the Statistical
Abstract of the United States, 1949, GPO, Washington D.C. (with errata
notes)
Commager, Henry Steele & Allan Nevins, ed., The Heritage of
America, 1951, Little, Brown, Boston
Drucker, Peter, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 1985, Harper
& Row, NY
Flowers, Charles, A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery,
1998, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston / Wm.Morrow, NY (history of
20th-Century science & technology)
Newsweek New York Times, The New York Times Great Stories of the Century,
1999, Galahad, NY
Norris, Floyd & Christine Bockelmann, The New York Times Century
of Business, 2000, McGraw-Hill, NY (fwd. by former Federal Reserve
Chairman Paul Volcker)
Sann, Paul, The Lawless Decade: A Pictorial History of a Great
American Transition, 1957 (Roaring Twenties history)
Terkel, Studs, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great
Depression, 1986, Random House, NY
also, for history, various issues of Smithsonian, American Heritage,
Current History, and National Geographic, as well as the major
news magazines. also, American Demographics, Wall Street Journal,
Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, the Economist,
World Press Review, Orbis, & Foreign Affairs.
and specifically: ALMANACS World Almanac World Almanac Information Please Almanac Statistical Abstract of the United States Other almanacs for: 1969,'75,'76,'78,'83-87 __________________________________________________________
AVIATION 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 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:
______________________________________ 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
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" _____________ 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
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.)
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)
and specifically:
______________________________________ GENERAL AVIATION HISTORY Abel, Alan & Drina Welch Abel & Paul Matt, Aeronca's Golden
Age, 2001, Wind Canyon, Niceville, FL
Campbell, Jim, *Air of Injustice (biography of Bob Hoover,
particularly detailed on his general aviation activity, including Aero
Commander, FAA and general aviation politics) (fwd. by F. Lee Bailey,
afterword by AOPA president Phil Boyer), 1999, Kindred Spirit, Winter
Haven, FL
deVries, John A., Col., USAF (ret'd), *Alexander Eaglerock: A History
of the Alexander Aircraft Company, Century One Press, Colorado Springs,
1985
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
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.html, 1999, 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 "AIRCAFT COMPANIES of KANSAS & OKLAHOMA", below) ______________________________________
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
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
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______________________________________ GENERAL AVIATION Aviation Consumer Business & Commercial Aviation 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 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.)
and specifically: AIRCAFT COMPANIES of KANSAS & OKLAHOMA ( Bissionette, Bruce: The Wichita 4: Cessna, Moellendick, Beech &
Stearman, (from interviews with Matty Laird, Lloyd Stearman, Olive Ann
Beech, Dwayne Wallace, Rawdon, Burnham, and other principals).
Phillips, Edward, H. Travel Air: Wings over the Prairie, revised
ed., Flying Books International, 1982/1994, Eagan MN (coverage of
Laird/Swallow, Travel Air and early careers of Cessna, Stearman & Beech)
Quastler, I.E., Air Midwest: The First Twenty Years, 1985, Airline
Press of California, San Diego (detailed history of America's 1st certificated
commuter airline, eventually one of America's largest intermediate carriers,
pioneering important general aviation airliners, incl. major aircraft of
Cessna, Beech, Swearingen & Saab/Fairchild) (verified though my work at
Air Midwest during these years).
Rowe, Frank J. & Miner, Craig. Borne on the South Wind: A Century
of Kansas Aviation. Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing Co., Wichita.
1994 (comprehensive history of Kansas aircraft manufacturers and Kansas
aviation)
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, and
Wichita's companies in particular).
Taylor, Richard, I Love Kansas: History Made, History
Remembered, 2001, Leathers/Squire, Leawood, KS (Includes definitive
study of planes -- and person -- of Kansas' first aircraft manufacturer, Albin
K. Longren, later V.Pres. of Cessna, whose designs included the first
Alexander Eaglerock and first composite/monocoque aircraft; Rev. Taylor is
the acknowledged expert on Longren and his aircraft.)
Thomas, Stanley G. (forward by Ercoupe designer Fred Weick),
*The Ercoupe, 1991, TAB/Aero (McGraw-Hill), NY (Includes Alon Aircraft,
Kansas manufacturer of Ercoupe/Aircoupe)
see also specific companies below: Christy, Joe; revised by Brian J. Dooley, The Complete Guide to
Single-Engine Cessnas, 4th.ed., 1993, TAB/McGraw-Hill, NY
Denau, Gerald, An Eye to the Sky, 1962, Cessna Aircraft Co.,
Wichita, KS (semi-official company history, with exceptional detail and
unusual candor about some products)
Phillips, Edward, H. Wings of Cessna: Model 120 to the Citation
III., Flying Books International, 1986, Eagan MN
Rodengen, Jeffrey, The Legend of Cessna, Write Stuff, 1998,
Ft.Lauderdale, FL (a massive book, company-sponsored but comprehensive
nevertheless, with extensive historical, business and technical details that
the company officially stands behind. Thoroughly footnoted and
documented as to sources, with exceptional historic images.).
Cessna aircraft manuals: 150, 172, 177/RG, Citation Bravo, and
others
Cessna Aircraft Co. Aircraft Genealogy Chart Avis, Jim and Martin Bowman, Stearman: A Pictorial History, 1997,
Motorbooks Int'l, Osceola, WI (detailed history of Stearman planes, company
and pioneers, esp. re: Kaydet line)
Boeing Co., Pedigree of Champions: Boeing Since 1916, 6th ed.,
1985, Seattle, WA (official company history, also detailing each major
aircraft)
Holder, William G., Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, (Aero Series Vol.
24), 1975, Aero Publishers, Fallbrook, CA,
de Saint Croix, Philip, ed., with William Green, Gordon Swainborough, John
Mowninski, Bill Gunston, et. al. *Modern Commercial Aircraft,
Salamander/Crown, London/NY, 1987.
Halliburton., The Flying Carpet, Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1932 (first-person account of famous round-the-world flight in Stearman C-3)
Jablonski, Edward, Flying Fortress, Doubleday, 1968
(the classic study of the B-17)
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.
Mansfield, Harold, Vision: The Story of Boeing, 1966, Duell, Sloan
& Pearce, NY
Serling, Robert. J., Legend & Legacy: The Story of Boeing
& Its People., 1992, St.Martin's (company-aided history).
Boeing Aircraft Genealogy Chart, Boeing Co., ca.1968, Seattle,
WA Ball, Larry, Those Incomparable Bonanzas , McCormick-Armstrong,
Wichita. KS, 1975 (former Beech Aircraft senior executive, writing after departure;
rather candid)
________, They Called Me 'Mr. Bonanza', McCormick-Armstrong,
Wichita. KS, 1990
________, From Travel Air to Baron: How Beech Created a Classic
Ball Publications, Indianapolis, IN, 1994
Beech Aircraft Corp., Annual Report, 1969
Phillips, Edward, H. Beechcraft: Pursuit of Perfection: The History of Beechcraft Airplanes, 2nd Ed., Flying Books International, 1992, Eagan MN
Raytheon Aircraft (esp. Cheryl Crowley), "A Short History of Beechcraft
& Raytheon Aircraft, 1932-2002," The Beechcrafter, Special 70th
Anniversary Edition, Vol I, #20, Sept.20, 2002 (8-pp official corporate
history, in company newsletter)
Beech aircraft manuals: 19, 23, 24, 24R Musketeer line, 33
Debonair/Bonanza, 35 Bonanza, V-35TC Bonanza, 36 Bonanza, B55 Baron, E55
Baron, B58TC Baron, Model 50 Twin Bonanza, D95A Travel Air, Starship 2000A,
and others
Beech Aircraft Genealogy Chart McDaniel, William H.,The History of Beech: Four Decades of Aeronautical & Aerospace Achievement, 1971, McCormick-Armstrong, Wichita; (336-pp, illustrated corporate history, autographed 1976 by Chairman of the Board of Beech, Olive Ann Beech, and her nephew, Beech President Frank Hedrick. Contains misleading remarks about history of Travel Air -- omitting any reference to the roles of its co-founders: Clyde Cessna, Lloyd Stearman, Walter Innes, Jr., and William Snook. Account of Beech history to be generally regarded with a healthy dose of skepticism, with arguably a very "varnished"/"sanitized" version of Beech history, apparently shaped by Beechcraft public relations priorities.)
Raytheon Aircraft Genealogy, (chart), Raytheon Aircraft Co., ca.1999,
Wichita, KS Bowers, Peter, et.al., Piper Cub Special Issue, AOPA Pilot,
July 1996, Aircraft Owners' & Pilots' Assn., Alexandria VA. (extensive
historical and technical report on Cub, Super Cub & offshoots, and early
Taylor & Piper Aircraft companies).
Cavanagh, Jim, ed., Standard Catalog of Piper Twin-Engine Aircraft,
1954-1993, 1994, Jones Publishing, Iola, WI
Francis, Devon, Mr. Piper & His Cubs, 1973, Iowa State Univ.
Press, Ames, IA
Murphy, Tom & Hans Halberstadt, The Illustrated Piper Buyer's
Guide, 1993, MBI, Osceola, WI
Piper, William T., Sr., (pres., Piper Aircraft Corp.), "Let's be realistic
about private flying," Flying, May 1946
Weick, Fred with James R. Hansen, *From the Ground Up: The
Autobiography of An Aeronautical Engineer (Fred Weick, former senior Piper
engineer, developed Cherokee, Pawnee and other important Piper aircraft)
Piper aircraft manuals: J-3 Cub, Apache, and others
Piper Aircraft Genealogy Chart Ball, Larry, Those Remarkable Mooneys,
Ball Publications, Indianapolis, Ind., 1998
Baxter, Gordon with Al & Art Mooney, The Al Mooney Story: They All
Fly Through the Same Air, Fredericksburg, Texas: Shearer Publishing, 1985
(Al Mooney's memoirs, as dictated to Gordon Baxter of Flying
Magazine). deVries, John A., Col., USAF (ret'd), *Alexander Eaglerock: A History of
the Alexander Aircraft Company, Century One Press, Colorado Springs, 1985
(Al Mooney's first designs were Alexander planes). Thomas, Stanley G. (forward by Ercoupe designer Fred Weick),
*The Ercoupe, 1991, TAB/Aero (McGraw-Hill), NY (Includes Mooney, last
manufacturer of Ercoupe/Aircoupe -- as Mooney M-10 "Cadet")
Aerostar Aircraft Corp., Ted R. Smith, 1906 - 1976: Aerostar Designer .
. . AVIATION LEGEND, online in 2003, at
http://www.aerostaraircraft.com/TedSmith.html
Campbell, Jim, *Air of Injustice (biography of Bob Hoover -- in
collaboration with Hoover -- particularly detailed on his key role at Aero
Commander) fwd. by F. Lee Bailey, afterword by AOPA president Phil
Boyer, 1999, Kindred Spirit, Winter Haven, FL
Harris, Thomas J., (Vice President & General Manager, Aero Commander,
Inc.), The Magic of Aero Design, 1963, The Newcomen Society in North
America, NY/Princeton. (history of Aero Commander -- and its predecessor, Aero
Design -- as reported by its General Manager, member of the Newcomen Society
for the study and honoring of industrial history.).
History of Air Tractor, Inc. History of Meyers Aircraft Hoover, Robert A. "Bob" (famed aviator, Rockwell / Aero Commander Vice President and demonstration pilot),
(fwd. by Gen. Chuck Yeager, USAF-Ret'd.), Forever Flying (autobiography of Bob Hoover, including details of his general aviation activity,
including Rockwell / Aero Commander work), 1996, Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, NY
Meyers Aircraft Ass'n., Meyers Aircraft Ass'n Newsletters,
1999-2000, Meyers Aircraft Co., Bulverde, Texas, online at:
http://www.meyersaircraft.com/Meyers%20Owners%20Assn/Newsletter.html
Rockwell, Col. Willard F., Sr. (Chairman, Rockwell Standard Corp. &
Aero Design), "Why we entered business plane manufacturing," Flying,
October 1959, Ziff Publishing, NY. (official explanation of Rockwell's
acquisition of Aero Commander line, by the person in charge).
Twin Commander Aircraft Data Twin Commander Historical Outline Bombardier, Inc., Bombardier: A Dream with International Reach, 1992, Bombardier, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (official company history)
Gates Learjet Corp.,Gates Learjet Milestones: A Chronology of Progress, ca.1974, Gates Learjet Corp., Wichita, KS. (official company history)
Lear Jet Corporation, Lear Jet Flight Manual, ca.1968, Lear Jet Corporation, Wichita, KS (Official manual for the Learjet Model 24B)
Lear, Moya. (Bill Lear's widow), "Bill Lear's Legacy of Learjet, Challenger (Learstar) & Lear Fan," Professional Pilot, May, 2001, page 26 (Biography of Bill Lear and history his aircraft developments, written by his longtime wife, who served as his business partner and successor.)
Neal, Ronald D. (former LearJet engineer and manager), "Development of the Lear Jet Model 23," Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS Journal), Vol.34, #3, Fall 1989, pp.162-177, American Aviation Historical Society, Santa Ana, CA. (Detailed, documented history of development of the first Lear Jet, written by a Lear Jet engineer/manager involved with the event.)
Olcott, John W., "Learjet Safety: Facts & Fiction," Business & Commercial Aviation magazine, July 1987, page 40 (Detailed statistical and technical analysis of the controversial safety history the LearJet product line, with a review of flight characteristics, by a leading industry analyst/reporter.)
Searles, Robert A., "Reflections: Lear's Legacy... Model 23...," Business & Commercial Aviation magazine, July 1989, page 84 (History of the beginnings of the LearJet product line, by a leading industry analyst/reporter/historian.)
Szurovy, Geza, Learjets, 1996, Motorbooks International, Osceola, WI (photo history of Learjet line, from its origins with the Model 23, through all models up to the Models 31, 60 and 45, richly illustrated with photos of LearJets inside and out.)
______________________________________ 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). ______________________________________ MILITARY AVIATION & HISTORY Aerospace Information Handbook 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 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, "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, by noted warbird expert/pilot)
________, 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.
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
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
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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) and specifically: ________________ 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.)
Deighton, Len, The Battle of Britain, Smithmark Publishing; 1st
American Edition, 1983
__ _________, 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.)
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)
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
__________, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway. Pocket Books
1968 First Edition
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 (Traditionally regarded as the definitive, authoritative history of Nazi Germany, written by famed U.S. war correspondent working in Germany during Hitler's rise to power and until U.S. entered World War II; includes notes from interviews with Hitler's staff).
Snyder, Louis L., (foreward by Eric Sevareid) The War: A Concise
History, 1939-1945, 1960/1964, Messner/Dell, NY
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Commission. The Strategic Bombing
Survey: Europe
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Commission. The Strategic Bombing Survey: Pacific
WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT: WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT, GENERALLY: 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.)
WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT, BY FACTION: Anderton David A., U.S. Fighters of World War II, Crescent, London,
ca.1981
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)
_______________________________________________ SPACE Aerospace Information Handbook 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
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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 _______________________________________________ WICHITA & KANSAS, GENERALLY Hund-Milne, Susan, ed., Spotlight on Wichita, '95-'96, Advanced
Publishing, Wichita, KS
Miner, Prof. Craig, Wichita: the Magic City, 1988,
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Assn., Wichita, KS
Rowe, Frank J. & Miner, Craig. Borne on the South Wind: A Century
of Kansas Aviation. Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing Co., Wichita .
1994
Skaggs, Prof. James, et.al., Metropolitan Wichita: Past, Present &
Future, Wichita State University, ca.1975
Sunflower Journeys Taylor, Richard, I Love Kansas: History Made, History
Remembered, 2001, Leathers/Squire, Leawood, KS
...and decades of personal experience and direct observation throughout
Wichita and Kansas (including extensive involvement with the Kansas aviation
industry and its people).
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