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• Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Hatton Turnor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A History of Aeronautics, by Evelyn Charles Vivian (Gutenberg text)
• An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni (London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1786), by Vincent Lunardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Some Remarkable Aërial and Alpine Voyages, Including Those of the Author; To Which Are Added, Observations of the Affections to Which Aerial and Mountain Travellers Are Liable, and an Essay on the Flight and Migration of Birds (London: Keating and Brown, 1832), by T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dominion of the Air, by John M. Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Travels in the Air (London: R. Bentley, 1871), by James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870), by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (London et al.: Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d.), by Fulgence Marion (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reflections of a Technocrat: Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2006), by John L. McLucas, contrib. by Kenneth J. Alnwick and Lawrence R. Benson
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by Phillip S. Meilinger
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittburgh Press; London: Feffer and Simons, c1988), by W. David Lewis and William F. Trimble (page images at Pitt)

• Airborne Trailblazer, by Lane E. Wallace (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer (2001), by Clayton K. S. Chun
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press

• Air Power History (partial serial archives)

• Airpower and Ground Armies: Essays on the Evolution of Anglo-American Air Doctrine, 1940-1943 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), ed. by Daniel R. Mortensen (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airpower and Ground Armies: Essays on the Evolution of Anglo-American Air Doctrine, 1940-1943 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), ed. by Daniel R. Mortensen (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), by Dik A. Daso (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by Phillip S. Meilinger
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Development of Military Night Aviation to 1919 (Maxwell AFL, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by William Edward Fischer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), ed. by Phillip S. Meilinger (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Charles Griffith (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Mosquitoes to Wolves: The Evolution of the Airborne Forward Air Controller (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2007), by Gary Robert Lester (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Mosquitoes to Wolves: The Evolution of the Airborne Forward Air Controller (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2007), by Gary Robert Lester (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• PC Pilot: The Complete Guide to Computer Aviation (1994), by Steve Smith (HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• The Air Force Role in Low-Intensity Conflict (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David J. Dean (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945 (c1983), by F. J. Hatch (PDF in Canada)

• Air Power History (partial serial archives)

• Airlift Doctrine (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Charles E. Miller
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by Mark David Mandeles
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), by Dik A. Daso (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1999), by John J. Tolson (PDF at US Army CMH)

• Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Hatton Turnor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni (London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1786), by Vincent Lunardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870), by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (London et al.: Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d.), by Fulgence Marion (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Frank J. Malina Collection at the California Institute of Technology : Guide to a Microfiche Edition (1986), ed. by Judith R. Goodstein and Carol H. Bugé (PDF at Caltech)

• Wright Brothers National Memorial: Historic Resource Study, by William R. Chapman and Jill K. Hanson (PDF files at National Park Service)

• Wright Brothers National Memorial: Historic Resource Study, by William R. Chapman and Jill K. Hanson (PDF files at National Park Service)

• The Beginning of Human Flight (New York: Wright Co., 1916) (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• The Beginning of Human Flight (New York: Wright Co., 1916) (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners, ed. by Pamela Etter Mack (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Toward Mach 2: The Douglas D-558 Program (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999), ed. by J. D. Hunley
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners, ed. by Pamela Etter Mack (illustrated HTML at NASA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• NASA Contractor Report (partial serial archives)
• Reports and Memoranda, ed. by Great Britain Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Great Britain Aeronautical Research Committee, and Aeronautical Research Council (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• NASA Technical Note (partial serial archives)
• Technical Note (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Some Remarkable Aërial and Alpine Voyages, Including Those of the Author; To Which Are Added, Observations of the Affections to Which Aerial and Mountain Travellers Are Liable, and an Essay on the Flight and Migration of Birds (London: Keating and Brown, 1832), by T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments Made by O. and G. Lilienthal (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Otto Lilienthal, trans. by A. W. Isenthal, contrib. by Gustav Lilienthal
  • page images at lindahall.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton (Gutenberg text)
• The Chanute-Mouillard Correspondence, by Octave Chanute and Louis-Pierre Mouillard, trans. by Eugene Mortiz and M. Louise Kraus (HTML at msstate.edu)
• The Record of an Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon (London: J. Long, 1907), by Gertrude Bacon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.