The Online Books Page

Flying-machines

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Flight
• Machinery

• Aeronautics

• Flying-machines -- Fiction
• Flying-machines -- Juvenile fiction
• Flying-machines -- Juvenile poetry
• Airplanes
• Drone aircraft
• Helicopters
• Lifting bodies (Aeronautics)
• Propellers, Aerial
• Rockets (Aeronautics)

• Flying Machines: Construction and Operation, by William J. Jackman and Thomas Herbert Russell (Gutenberg text)
• Progress in Flying Machines, by Octave Chanute (illustrated HTML at msstate.edu)
• 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)
• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg text)

• Robur the Conqueror, by Jules Verne
  • HTML in Israel
  • Gutenberg text

• The Wonderful Electric Elephant (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1927), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by C. M. Coolidge (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)

• Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1915), by Roy Rockwood (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)
• On the Edge of the Arctic: or, An Aeroplane in Snowland (author writing as Ashton Lamar; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1913), by H. L. Sayler, illust. by N. P. Hall (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Round the World in Seven Days (1910), by Herbert Strang, illust. by A. C. Michael (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)
• The Flying Girl and Her Chum (published under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Josef Pierre Nuyttens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Linda Carlton's Hollywood Flight (New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1933), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Linda Carlton, Air Pilot (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1931), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Linda Carlton's Ocean Flight (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1931), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., ca. 1911), by Margaret Burnham (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)
• The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise (New York: Hurst and Co., 1911), by Margaret Burnham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Secret Battleplane (London: S. W. Partridge, c1916), by Percy F. Westerman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Jerry Todd and the Flying Flapdoodle (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1934), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tom Swift and His Air Glider, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Rocket Riders in the Air: or, A Chase in the Clouds (New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1934), by Howard Roger Garis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tom Swift and His Flying Boat: or, The Castaways of the Giant Iceberg (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1923), by Victor Appleton (Guternberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1915), by Roy Rockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Round the World in Seven Days (1910), by Herbert Strang, illust. by A. C. Michael (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Darius Green and His Flying-Machine (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by J. T. Trowbridge, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, c2008), by Brian A. Jackson, Dave Frelinger, Michael Lostumbo, and Robert Button (PDF files at rand.org)
• Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Enabling Science for Military Systems (2000), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• V/STOLAND Avionics System Flight-Test Data on a UH-1H Helicopter (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1980), by Fredric A. Baker, Dean N. Jaynes, Lloyd D. Corliss, Sam Liden, Robert B. Merrick, and Daniel C. Dugan
  • PDF at NASA
  • 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)

• Morphology of Propulsive Power (Pasadena, CA: Society for Morphological Research, 1962), by F. Zwicky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Structures and Design Practice (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1956), by Everard Arthur Bonney, Maurice J. Zucrow, and C. W. Besserer (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under narrower terms.