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• On the mechanical appliances by which flight is attained in the animal kingdom / (London : Taylor and Francis, [1868]), by James Bell Pettigrew and Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the mechanical appliances by which flight is attained in the animal kingdom / (London : R. Taylor, 1870), by James Bell Pettigrew and Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight test of a Little Joe boosted full-scale spacecraft model and escape system for Project Mercury / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962), by Hal T. Baber, Roland D. English, Howard S. Carter, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The wing veins of insects, (Sacramento, W. W. Shannon, supt. state printing, 1906), by C. W. Woodworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Flügelgestalten der alten Kunst ... (Berlin : Gedruckt in der Druckerie der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1840), by Eduard Gerhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den Thorax von Gryllus domesticus, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Flügelgelenks und dessen Bewegung; ein Beitrag zur Vergleichung der Anatomie und des Mechanismus des Insektenleibes, insbesondere des Flügels. ([Leipzig, Engelmann, 1904]), by Friedrich Voss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Effects of canard planform and wing-leading-edge modification on low-speed longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a canard airplane configuration / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Bernard Spencer, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind-tunnel buffeting measurements on two wing end-plate airplane model configurations / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information [distributor], 1967), by William B. Igoe and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of double slotted flaps on a swept-wing transport model / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Rodger L. Naeseth, Edwin E. Davenport, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Residual strength and crack propagation tests on C-130 airplane center wings with service-imposed fatigue damage / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service [distributor], 1972), by H. Lawrence Snider, William Dirkin, Franklin L. Reeder, Langley Research Center, and Lockheed-Georgia Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapid-transition tests of a 1/4-scale model of the VZ-2 tilt-wing aircraft / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Louis P. Tosti, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic characteristics of a powered semispan tilting-shrouded-propeller VTOL model in hovering and transition flight / (Washington [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962), by Kenneth W. Goodson, Kalman J. Grunwald, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of groundboard height on the aerodynamic characteristics of a lifting circular cylinder using tangential blowing from surface slots for lift generation / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Vernard E. Lockwood, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber insectenflügel / (Halle : [s.n.], 1879), by Georg Ernst Adolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das flügeäder der käfer : Zugleich ein fragmentärer versuch zur auffassung der käfer im sinne der descendenztheorie / (Erlangen : E. Besold, 1875), by Otto Roger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of laboratory work in the study of the venation of the wings of insects. (Ithaca, N. Y., Comstock Pub. Co., 1918), by John Henry Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wings of insects: a series of articles on the structure and development of the wings of insects, with special reference to the taxonomic value of the characters presented by the wings, (Ithaca, N.Y.,Comstock Pub. Co., [1899?]), by John Henry Comstock and James G. Needham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homologies of the wing veins of the Aphididae, Psyllidae, Aleurodidae, and Coccidae ... ([Columbus, O., 1909]), by Edith Marion Patch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den systematischen Werth des Flügelgeäders bei den Hymenopteren, (Aachen, Rudolf Baarth, 1877), by Arnold Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Venenentwicklung des Vorderflügels von Epeorus assimilis Eaton. (Halle, E. Karras, 1916), by Georg Ernst Adolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The physiology of wings. (Edinburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1871), by James Bell Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust)
• A computer program to improve STADAN station scheduling / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information [distributor], 1966), by Walter D. Davis and Goddard Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transonic aerodynamic characteristics of a tailless fixed-wing supersonic transport model / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information [distributor], 1966), by Edward J. Ray, Robert T. Taylor, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of flanges on pressure distribution on a flat plate and on a corrugated surface at mach numbers from 0.60 to 1.97 / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1974), by Albert L. Johns, Merle L. Jones, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pressure distributions on blunt-delta wings at angles of attack up to 90 degrees and Mach number of 6.85 / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : [For sale by the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce], [1963]), by Peter T. Bernot and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind-tunnel tests of a semispan wing with a fan rotating in the plane of the wing / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by David H. Hickey, David R. Ellis, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of chordwise heat conduction on the torsional stiffness of a diamond-shaped wing subjected to a constant heat input / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Robert G. Thomson, J. Lyell Sanders, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two techniques for detecting boundary-layer transition in flight at supersonic speeds and at altitudes above 20,000 feet / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by John G. McTigue, Gilbert Petty, John D. Overton, and Flight Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die flügeltypen der coleopteren, (Halle, H.W. Schmidt, 1855), by Hermann Burmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of lateral-directional stability characteristics of a twin-jet fighter airplane at high angles of attack / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1969), by Joseph R. Chambers, Ernie L. Anglin, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ground effects related to landing of airplanes with low-aspect-ratio wings / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 2215], 1966), by William B. Kemp, W. Pelham Phillips, Vernard E. Lockwood, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der vogelflug als grundlage der fliegekunst. Ein beitrag zur systematik der flugtechnik. (Berlin, R. Gaertner, 1889), by Otto Lilienthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrag̈e zur Kenntniss der Flügelentwickelung bei den Insecten... (Königsberg i. Pr. M. Leidtke, 1884), by Paulus Pancritius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur kenntniss der flugelentwickelung bei den insecten. (Königsberg, Liedtke, 1884), by Paul Pancritius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau de l'aîle supérieure des Hyménoptères / (Paris : J.B. Baillière, 1839), by Balthasar E. de Romand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères. ([Torino?, 1818]), by Louis Jurine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études expérimentales sur les zooptères ... (Paris, F. L. Vivien, 1909-10), by Paul Amans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A study in butterfly wing-venation with special regard to the radial veins of the front wing ... ([City of Washington, Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1907]c1906), by Thomas J. Headlee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laboratory guide to the study of the evolution of the wings of insects / (Ithaca, N.Y. : Daw, Illston, 1939), by J. Chester Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wings of insects : an exposition of the uniform terminology of the wing-veins of insects and a discussion of the more general characteristics of the wings of the several orders of insects / (Ithaca, N. Y. : The Comstock Publishing company, 1918), by John Henry Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The physiological basis of wing production in the grain aphid. ([Philadelphia, 1926]), by Lloyd Ackerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposure of waterfowl to lead : a nationwide survey of residues in wing bones of seven species, 1972-73 / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1979), by Robert E. Christensen, Kenneth P. Burnham, Robert I. Smith, Rey C. Stendell, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Analysis of the Effects of Wing Aspect Ratio and Tail Location on Static Longitudinal Stability below the Mach Number of Lift Divergence / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, [1948]), by John A. Axelson, J. Conrad Crown, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NACA research memorandum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution and taxonomy : an essay on the application of the theory of natural selection in the classification of animals and plants, illustrated by a study of the evolution of the wings of insects, and by a contribution to the classification of the Lepidoptera / (Ithaca, N.Y. : [Comstock Pub. Co.], 1893), by John Henry Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber insectenflügel. (Halle : Blochmann, 1879), by Georg Ernst Adolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laboratory guide to the study of the wings of insects, (Ithaca, N. Y., Daw, Illston and Company, 1931), by J. Chester Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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, New York, Longmans, Green, 1911), by Otto Lilienthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Approximate solutions for the flow about flat-top wing-body configurations at high supersonic airspeeds / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, [1958]), by Raymond C. Savin, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NACA research memorandum, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst: Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Flugtechnik (in German), by Otto Lilienthal (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
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