Air Sports & Recreations

  The year's must-read YA fantasy ancient djinn, an epic adventure, and one girl's courage to seek her own destiny ... Bur...

Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American pilots ha...

In 2005, just two years before his untimely death in a plane crash, Steve Fossett completed the first solo, non-stop, non-refuelled circumnavigatio...

_Balloonomania Belles_ reveals the astonishing stories of the fabulous female pioneers of balloon flight. More than a century before the first aero...

Welcome to the world of miniature aviation, intergalactic style. Its entertainment on the fly for the office, backyard, classroom (dont get caught!...

The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy, or prize or cup) was a prize competition for seaplanes. Anno...

This is the history of air racing from its beginnings in 1909 at Reims, France, to the end of the 2008 racing season at Reno, Nevada. The history o...

Touching Cloudbase first appeared in 1991 to wide acclaim and soon became the standard manual for anyone starting paragliding. More than 43,000 cop...

Station 115-Shipdham is the unique story of 600 acres of Norfolk countryside in the centre of the agricultural heartland of East Anglia. It was tur...

Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, Falling Upwards is really a history of hope and fantasy and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that...

This comprehensive book is aimed at all those who are undertaking the helicopter Private Pilot's Licence course, those who have qualified recently,...