Aerospace & Aviation Technology

‘Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special’ LEE CHILD 'FALLING is the best ki...

Aviation expert David Wragg has written the definitive reference work on the history of aviation. International in scope, the dictionary has over 4...

Ever since their inception, space activities have been innovative, but not driven by commercial considerations – that is, until the end of the Cold...

The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age—a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the pract...

When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote...

Tells the true story of Frank Whittle inventing the jet engine and revolutionizing avaiation.

There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was...

This is the amazing story of Hanna Reitsch, one of the most celebrated women of the Third Reich. As a decorated test pilot for the Luftwaffe and a ...

In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a break...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 125.This volume provides a comprehensive overview o...

In 1935 the USAAC wanted to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a 'Guardian of the Hemisphere,' and granted Donald Douglas a contract to bui...

From huge, fragile airships hanging in the sky to dashing young war pilots obsessed with death and destruction, this text describes Germany’s peril...

Since ancient times, men and women have dreamed of soaring among the stars, but only in this century has that dream been realized. In Rockets into ...

With the end of the Cold War, will the space race become a cooperative venture? This book, which tells the story of the European Space Agency, show...