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• Will There Be a Plane in Every Garage? (1945), by Robert M. Farr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Aeroplane Speaks, by Horatio Claude Barber (Gutenberg text)
• Aeroplanes, by J. S. Zerbe (Gutenberg text)
• Fliegerhandbuch: Ein Leitfaden der Gesamten Flugtechnik (in German; Berlin: R. C. Schmidt und Co., 1914), by Robert Eyb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fliegerhandbuch: Ein Leitfaden der Gesamten Flugtechnik (third edition, in German; Berlin: R. C. Schmidt und Co., 1918), by Robert Eyb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engineering Supersonic Aerodynamics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1950), by Everard Arthur Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineering Aerodynamics (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1928), by Walter S. Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace and its Commercial Future (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Evan J. David
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton (Gutenberg text)
• Progress in Flying Machines, by Octave Chanute (illustrated HTML at msstate.edu)
• Aero Engines, Magnetos and Carburetors (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Harold Pollard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Aviation in Canada, 1917-1918: Being a Brief Account of the Work of the Royal Air Force, Canada, the Aviation Department of the Imperial Munitions Board, and the Canadian Aeroplanes Limited (Toronto: Rous and Mann, c1919), ed. by Alan Sullivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book, 1920 (London: Technical Pub. Co., ca. 1920), ed. by W. C. Bersey and A. Dorey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Stresses in Aircraft and Shell Structures (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1956), by Paul Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aircraft Lofting and Template Layout, With Descriptive Geometry (San Francisco: Aviation press, c1942), by Howard Thrasher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon for U.S. Navy Applications (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings (1997), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Aviation Fuels and Their Effects on Engine Performance (c1951), by Ethyl Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings (1997), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft, by Laurence K. Loftin (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Aircraft and Missile Propulsion (2 volumes (third apparently never published); New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1958), by Maurice J. Zucrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flying Boys in the Sky (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1911), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by Edwin John Prittie (Gutenberg text)
• The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise (New York: Hurst and Co., 1911), by Margaret Burnham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hike and the Aeroplane (published under "Tom Graham" pseudonym; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Arthur Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lady From the Air (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, illust. by E. J. Rosenmeyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• At the Field: Offbeat Stories About R/C Model Airplanes and the People Who Fly Them, by David P. Andersen (PDF and Word with commentary at tcrconline.com)

• Engine Design as Related to Airplane Power, With Particular Reference to Performance at Varying Altitudes (Detroit: General Motors, 1943), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aircraft Engine Design (Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1940), by Joseph Liston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moteurs d'Aviation et de Dirigeables (in French; Paris: L. Geisler, 1910), by Henri André (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motoren für Flugzeuge und Luftschiffe (third edition, in German; Berlin: R. C. Schmidt und Co., 1914), by Fritz Huth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Aero (partial serial archives)

• Once to Every Pilot (New York: Stackpole sons, c1936), by Frank Hawks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Airplane Welding and Materials (second edition; Chicago: Goodheart-Willcox, 1941), by J. B. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abriss der Strömungslehre (second edition, in German; Gottingen: Gottingen University Press, 2017), by Ludwig Prandtl (PDF at Gottingen University Press)
• Aerodynamic Design Guidelines and Computer Program for Estimation of Subsonic Wind Tunnel Performance (Washington: NASA, 1976), by William T. Eckert and Kenneth W. Mort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airplane Aerodynamics (third edition; New York et al.: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1961), by Daniel O. Dommasch, Sydney S. Sherby, and Thomas F. Connolly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Interaction and Breakdown Characteristics of Slender-Wing Vortices at Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds (NASA Technical Paper 3114; 1991), by Gary E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of Practical Aerodynamics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1936), by Bradley Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineering Aerodynamics (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1928), by Walter S. Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Aerodynamics (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, c1958), by R. S. Scorer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight, by Theodore A. Talay (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Nuclear Flight: The United States Air Force Programs for Atomic Jets, Missiles, and Rockets (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960), ed. by Kenneth Franklin Gantz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elements of Propeller and Helicopter Aerodynamics (New York: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1953), by Daniel O. Dommasch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aircraft Propeller Design (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1930), by Fred E. Weick (page images at HathiTrust)

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