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• Aeronautics
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• Balloons -- Early works to 1800
• Balloons -- Juvenile fiction
• Balloons -- Scientific applications
• Hot air balloons

• Military balloons
• Aerostats

• The Dominion of the Air, by John M. Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Up in the Clouds, or, Balloon Voyages, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Aeronautica: or, Sketches Illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation, Comprising an Enlarged Account of the Late Aerial Expedition to Germany (London: F. C. Westley, 1838), by Monck Mason (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)
• 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)
• 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

• Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion From Chester, the Eighth of September, 1785, Taken From Minutes Made During the Voyage (Chester, UK: Printed for the author, 1786), by Thomas Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Red Balloon (Chicago et al.: P.F. Volland Co., c1918), by Caroline Hofman, illust. by Rachael Robinson Elmer (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Rollo's Philosophy: Air (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), by Richard L. Weaver and James McAndrew (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Cinq Semaines en Ballon: Voyages de Découvertes en Afrique par Trois Anglais (in French; Paris: J. Hetzel et cie, ca. 1867), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou and H. de Montaut (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland, illust. by Edouard Riou and H. de Montaut (illustrated HTML in Israel)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland (Gutenberg text)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon: or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (New York: Hurst and Co., c1869), by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• 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)
• 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

• Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion From Chester, the Eighth of September, 1785, Taken From Minutes Made During the Voyage (Chester, UK: Printed for the author, 1786), by Thomas Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Description of an Artificial Hand (also includes his "Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation" and "Essay on the Means of Promoting Safety in Railway Carriages"; London: Tyler and Reed, 1845), by George Cayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last! (New York: A. W. Macdonald, 1871), by Robert Hardley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last! (1871), by Robert Hardley (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)

• With The Night Mail; and As Easy as A.B.C. (with notes, and illustrations from original publications; 2013), by Rudyard Kipling (PDF at Forgotten Futures)
• The Air Pirate (London: Hurst and Blackett, ca. 1919), by C. Ranger Gull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Flying Man: or, The Adventures of a Young Inventor (Boys' Star Library #187; 1891), by Harry Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Flying Family in Greenland (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1935), by George R. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• I Fly for News (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1932), by Larry Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aeronautica: or, Sketches Illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation, Comprising an Enlarged Account of the Late Aerial Expedition to Germany (London: F. C. Westley, 1838), by Monck Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• The Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Operators and Automation, ed. by Christopher D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, Raja Pasasuraman, and James P. McGee (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control, ed. by Christopher D. Wickens, Anne S. Mavor, and James P. McGee (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Flying Squad (c1927), by William Avery Bishop and Rothesay Stuart-Wortley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Aeroplane Boys Among the Clouds: or, Young Aviators in a Wreck (1912), by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• The Aeroplane Boys Flight: or, A Hydroplane Roundup, by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing: or, Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics (1912), by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic: or, The Longest Flight on Record, by Charles Amory Beach (Gutenberg text)
• Burton of the Flying Corps (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, c1916), by Herbert Strang, illust. by C. E. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane, or, Daring Adventures Over The Great Lakes, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly (1912), by Margaret Burnham, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings, by Margaret Burnham (Gutenberg text)
• L'Aventure de Nicolas Corbin (in French; Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1890), by Maurice Champagne, illust. by René Giffey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On a Torn-Away World, or, The Captives of the Great Earthquake, by Roy Rockwood
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Round the World in Seven Days (1910), by Herbert Strang, illust. by A. C. Michael (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril (Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1921), by Gordon Stuart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Eagle Camp (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Greenwood School (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island, by Gordon Stuart (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air with Pershing (Chicago : Reilly and Lee Co., c1919), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by Joseph W. Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron, by Robert Shaler (Gutenberg text)
• The Flying Girl (published under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1911), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Josef Pierre Nuyttens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom Swift and His Air Scout, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1915), by Roy Rockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy Scouts in an Airship: or, The Warning From the Sky, by G. Harvey Ralphson (Gutenberg text)

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