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Aviation History Resources

Check out these sources for information about the inventors and aviators who developed the balloons, airplanes, and other flying machines that were created throughout aviation history.

St. Tammany Parish Library

65 items

  • Reach for the Skies

    Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting Into Space

    Branson, Richard
    Book, 2011New York : Current, 2011. — 629.1 Bra
  • Book, 2013New York : Pantheon Books, c2013. — 387.732 Hol
  • Louisiana Aviation

    An Extraordinary History in Photographs

    Caire, Vincent, 1962-
    Book, 2012Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012. — La 387.7097 Cai
  • Book, 2002New York : Free Press, c2002. — 629.13 Cha
  • Wings

    a History of Aviation From Kites to the Space Age

    Crouch, Tom D.
    Book, 2003Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. — 629.13 Cro
  • Book, 2003Erin, Ontario : Boston Mills Press ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Distributed by Firefly Books, c2003. — 629.13 Dic
  • Book, 2004Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press ; Buffalo, NY : Distributed in U.S. by Firefly Books, 2004. — 629.13 Dic
  • Book, 2019Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, [2019] — 629.1332 Gla
  • Birdmen

    the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

    Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
    Book, 2014New York : Ballantine Books, [2014] — 629.13 Gol
  • The Spectacle of Flight

    Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950

    Wohl, Robert
    Book, 2005New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. — 629.13 Woh
  • The Flight of the Century

    Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation

    Kessner, Thomas
    Book, 2010Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. — 629.13 Kes
  • The Big Jump

    Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race

    Bak, Richard, 1954-
    Book, 2011Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2011. — 629.1309 Bak
  • The Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    Hampton, Dan,
    Book, 2017New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — 629.1309 Ham
  • Atlantic Fever

    Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

    Jackson, Joe
    Book, 2012New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. — 629.1309 Jac
  • The Aviators

    Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

    Groom, Winston, 1944-
    Book, 2013Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2013] — 629.1309 Gro
  • Empires of the Sky

    Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World

    Rose, Alexander, 1971-
    Book, 2020New York : Random House, [2020] — 387.7092 Ros
  • To Conquer the Air

    the Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

    Tobin, James, 1956-
    Book, 2003New York : Free Press, c2003. — 629.13 Tob
  • The Airplane

    How Ideas Gave Us Wings

    Spenser, Jay P.
    Book, 2008New York : HarperCollins, c2008. — 629.1333 Spe
  • Fly Girls

    How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

    O'Brien, Keith, 1973-
    Book, 2018Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 629.1309 O'Br
  • Sky Girls

    the True Story of the First Women's Cross-country Air Race

    Jessen, Gene Nora,
    Book, 2018Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2018] — 797.52 Jes