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Cover Title Dedication Copyright Contents Introduction Dreams of the Birdmen: Icarus and His Successors What Goes Up: How an Airplane Flies

Lift Thrust Gravity Drag Changing direction

Airplane: The Anatomy of an Aircraft It’s All Hot Air (Part One): The Story of Ballooning If at First you Don’t Succeed: Strange Shapes in the Sky (Part One) Heavier Than Air: The Wright Brothers’ First Powered Flight The Red Baron: An Introduction to Manfred von Richthofen Aviation Origami: How to Make a Paper Helicopter On The Wing: Barnstormers and Flying Circuses The Spin Doctors: Twelve Aerobatic Maneuvers Across The Pond: Who Was First to Fly across the Atlantic? Who Were You? Insignia of Yesterday’s Air Forces Romeo and Juliett: An Introduction to the Phonetic Alphabet War Minus the Shooting: A History of Air Racing Chicken or Beef? The Story of Airline Food Dead Heat: The Zeppelin Race How Big? How the Sizes of Different Aircraft Compare The Wind Beneath My Wings: The Story of Gliding Great Planes: Douglas DC-3 Eye in the Sky: The Story of Aerial Reconnaissance Project Cancelled: Republic XF-12 Rainbow Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? A Few Things Aircraft Have Been Named After Corsairville: The Rise and Fall of the Flying Boat From Cdg to Lax Via Lhr: Some of the Better Airport Three-letter Indentifiers Great Planes: Supermarine Spitfire “Never, in the Field of Human Conflict . . .”: The Second World War in the Air Ducks and Drakes and Bouncing Bombs: How Skipping Stones Inspired the Dam Busters Never Coming Home: RAF Losses since 1945 Project Cancelled: Vickers Valiant B2 “Pathfinder” And Then There Were Four: The Disappearance of Britain’s Aircraft Manufacturers Paper Airplane: The Perfect Paper Plane A Dirty Distant War: Eleven Significant Air Battles Great Planes: North American P-51 Mustang Eject! Eject! Eject! The Unsung Hero of the Ejection Seat Project Cancelled: Martin-Baker MB5 The Bermuda Triangle: Fact or Fiction? Aliens Among Us? The Peculiar Story of the Roswell Flying Saucer The Right Stuff: Breaking the Sound Barrier F. A. B. Scott: A Few Island Airbases Freight Dogs: The Story of Air Cargo Pigs in Space: Flying Animals Putting out Fire: The World of Aerial Firefighting Project Cancelled: BAC TSR2 Great Planes: English Electric Canberra How Many? A Few Notable Production Runs Great Planes: Lockheed C-130 Hercules Flying in a Milk Bottle: The Story of Polar Aviation Meatbox, Buff, and Shagbat: 101 Aircraft Nicknames It’s a Boat! It’s a Plane! IT’S A HOVERCRAFT! The Hovercraft Story Rocket Man: The Story of John Stapp Don’t Touch That Button! The Aircraft Cockpit

Airspeed indicator Attitude indicator Altimeter Turn coordinator Heading indicator Vertical speed indicator

In Search of Dan Dare: British Rocketplanes

Armstrong-Whitworth “Pyramid” Saunders-Roe SR.53 Avro Z.101 BAC Mustard British Aerospace HOTOL Reaction Engines Skylon

“Talk to Me, Goose . . .”: Some Fictional Pilots

Steve Austin Pete “Maverick” Mitchell Luke Skywalker Nick “Goose” Bradshaw Dan Dare James “Biggles” Bigglesworth Buck Danny Stringfellow Hawke Major Tom Hal Jordan H. M. Murdock Starbuck Squadron Commander the Lord Flashheart Mitchell Gant Ben Grimm Virgil Tracy Buck Rogers (The Great) Waldo Pepper Sir Percy Ware-Armitage Han Solo Ted Striker

Who are you? Insignia of Today’s Air Forces “The First Time I Ever Saw a Jet I Shot It Down”: Fighter Combat During the Jet Age It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time: A Different Sort of Nuclear Bomber Project Cancelled: Martin P6M Seamaster Great Planes: Bell UH-1 Iroquois Whirlybirds: The Brief History of Helicopters Chopper: The Anatomy of a Helicopter Beating the Air into Submission: How a Helicopter Flies

Here’s the science So, which bit’s traveling backward? Changing direction

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines: Fifteen Flying Films

633 Squadron (1964) Airplane! (1980) Armageddon (1998) Battle of Britain (1969) The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) The Dam Busters (1955) The Final Countdown (1980) Fire Birds/Wings of the Apache (1990) Flight of the Phoenix (1965) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) The Right Stuff (1983) The Sound Barrier (1952) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) Top Gun (1986) X-15 (1961)

Great Planes: McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II “Indian Ocean. Present Day.”: How Aircraft Carriers Work

Angled deck Arrestor wire Mirror landing sight Steam catapult

Batsmen and Paddles: The Art of the Landing Deck Officer Project Cancelled: Fairey Rotodyne All Around the World: Which Countries Make Their Own Aircraft? Project Cancelled: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Great Planes: Boeing 707 I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane: Air Travel for Everyone A Hell of a Pick-Me-Up: The Story of the Fulton Skyhook The Art of Compromise: Four Different Wing Shapes

Straight Delta Swept Variable Geometry

Project Cancelled: North American XB-70 Valkyrie It’s All Hot Air (Part Two): Felix Baumgartner Raises the Bar Pukin’ Dogs and Jolly Rogers: US Navy Fighter Squadrons Flying Without Wings: The Lifting Body Story Great Planes: North American X-15 Fast, Faster, Fastest: Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Rocketplane You’re a Record-Breaker! The World Air-speed Record

But there’s a catch . . .

Don’t Stop me Now: Some Songs about Flying Great Planes: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird High as a Kite: How High Do Things Fly? One of our Bombers is Missing: The Birth of the Stealth Fighter Who Wanted Concorde? How the World Nearly Turned Supersonic Aurora: The Secret Spyplane. Or Not. Project Cancelled: Northrop YF-23 Great Planes: Hawker Siddeley Harrier The Caspian Sea Monster: The Rise and Fall of the Ekranoplan “Tactically Sound”: The Unrealized Dream of the Airborne Aircraft Carrier Turbo Dog and Critter: A Few Notable Airline Callsigns The Runway Code: How to Park an Airliner Great Planes: Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” Come and Have a Go if you Think you’re Hard Enough: The World’s Biggest Air Forces The World’s Favorite Airline: Who’s the Biggest?

Cargo airlines Commercial airlines

Anything, Anywhere, Anytime: A Few Airlines You May Not Have Heard Of

Air America Air Foyle Civil Air Transport British South American Airways

“Get off my Plane!”: The Story of Air Force One Great Planes: Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde Wheels with Wings: The Dream of the Flying Car There once was an Ugly Duckling: Strange Shapes in the Sky (Part Two) The Reds: Formations of the Red Arrows Is it a Bird, is it a Plane? A Guide to Superhero Flight The Gimli Glider: When an Airliner Runs Out of Gas The Final Frontier: How High Do Spacemen Fly? Great Planes: Rockwell International Space Shuttle Orbiter Project Cancelled: Buran The Brilliant Bottle Rocket: How to Make a Water Rocket You’ll Believe a Man Can Fly: How to Levitate. Or Look Like You Can. Sort Of. Bird is the Word: Some Avian Superlatives

Heaviest flying bird Biggest bird of prey Biggest eagle Smallest bird Least-grounded bird Longest flight Largest wingspan Largest ever wingspan Fastest bird Fastest wingbeat Highest-flying bird Largest prey Biggest nest

Word on a Wing: A Few Books about Flying

Attack Aircraft of the West Bombers of the West Early Supersonic Fighters of the West The Big Show Bomber Chickenhawk Corsairville Empire of the Clouds F4 Phantom: A Pilot’s Story Fighter Boys First Light Fly Low, Fly Fast Going Solo A Good Clean Fight The Hunt for Zero Point Inside the Sky (republished as Aloft) Ministry of Space Moondust Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds No Visible Horizon The Perfect Storm Project Cancelled The Ravens The Right Stuff Ruin from the Air Scream of Eagles Sea Harrier over the Falklands Thunder and Lightnings Tumult in the Clouds

The Rise of the Machines: A Brief Introduction to Drones Acknowledgments Picture Acknowledgments Chronicle Ebooks

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