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Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
"Plucky" Lindbergh		1927	Gage Lindbergh (pseudonym)
Poems of flying: a song of the air		1926	Harold Alexander Danne
Popular mechanics aviation album		1953	Edward Louis Throm, 1915 James S. Crenshaw
Pour le mérite: Flieger im Feuer		1931	Ernst Schäffer
Préparation météorologique des voyages aériens		1920	Jules Alfred Pierre Rouch
Préparons la défense antiaérienne		1929	Henri Albert Niessel
Practical aeronautics: an understandable presentation of interesting and essential facts in aeronautical science		1912	Orville Wright, Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward
A practical aircraft engine study		1940	Frederick Bryton Thompson
Practical aircraft stress analysis	2d ed.	1938	David Rees. Adams
Practical analytic geometry with applications to aircraft		1944	Roy A. Liming, Leo. Hudson
Practical automotive lacquering		1928	William James Miskella
Practical aviation: an understandable presentation of interesting and essentials facts in aeronautical science	2d ed.	1919	Charles B. (Charles Brian) Hayward
Practical aviation for military airmen		1918	James Andrew White
Practical flight training		1928	Lieutenant Barrett Studley, Barrett Studley
Practical flight training		1936	Lieut, Barrett Studley
Practical flying: a training manual for airplane pilots		1928	Byron Q. (Byron Quinby) Jones
Practical flying: complete course of flying instruction		1918	Major-General W. S. Brancker, Flight-Lieutenant E. L. Ford, William Gordon McMinnies
Practical thermodynamics for aircraft engines		1941	Leslie Aaron Thorpe
Pratt and Whitney engine handbook		1928	Eclipse, Aeromarine
The prehistory of aviation		1928	Frank A. Marshall, Berthold Laufer, Frank S. Land
Pressure airships		1927	Thos, William Watters Pagon, Thomas Lloyd Blakemore
Principles and design of aëroplanes	2d ed., rev.	1912	Herbert Chatley
Principles and design of aëroplanes		1911	Herbert Chatley
The principles of aerodynamics		1933	Max M. (Max Michael) Munk
Principles of aerodynamics		1953	Daniel O. (Daniel Otto) Dommasch
Principles of high speed flight		1947	H. McKinley (Hobart McKinley) Conway
Private flying, today and tomorrow		1949	William T. (William Thomas) Piper
Private pilot's handbook		1942	Arthur G. Norwood, Alexander Klemin
Private pilot's handbook	2d ed.	1949	Arthur G. Norwood
Problems of aeronautical law		1934	Hampton Denman Ewing
Project Horizon: report		1961
Promenons-nous par les airs		1932	Roger Lallier
Psychological research on equipment design		1947	Paul M. (Paul Morris) Fitts
"Putting laws over wings"		1926	Warren Jefferson Davis
The question of anatomy for the United States air arm, 1907-1945	Rev.	1950	R. Earl (Robert Earl) McClendon
Réglage des moteurs d'aviation		1930	Raymond Barrau
Règlement aéronautique		1927
A rabbit in the air		1932	David Garnett
Racing around the world		1928	Eustace L. (Eustace Lane) Adams
Racing the moon (and winning) being the story of the swiftest journey ever made		1928	John Henry Mears
Radio telemetry	1st ed.	1954	Myron Hiram Nichols, Lawrence Lee Rauch
Radiomovies, radiovision, television		1929	C. Francis (Charles Francis) Jenkins
Raketen-flugtechnik		1933	Eugen Sänger
Rankin text: a complete aviation training system		1934	John G. Rankin
Readings on aviation		1929	Xelphin Vennuss Dugal
Realm of flight: presenting practical information about weather in relation to the piloting of private aircraft	Rev.	1963
Realm of flight: presenting practical information about weather in relation to the piloting of private aircraft	Rev.	1954
The record of an aeronaut: being the life of John M. Bacon		1907	Gertrude Bacon
Records of an airplane passenger in 1928 and 1929		1929	Frederick Arthur Poole
The red eagle: being the adventurous tale of two young flyers		1935	Alexander Key
Regulation of transportation of passengers and property by aircraft. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 2, a bill to amend the Interstate commerce act, as amended, by providing for the regulation of the transportation of passengers and property by aircraft in interstate commerce, and for other purposes, and S. 1760, a bill to promote the safety of scheduled air transportation ...		1937
Regulation of transportation of passengers and property by aircraft. Hearings before a subcommitte of the Committee on interstate commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 2, a bill to amend the Interstate commerce act, as amended, by providing for the regulation of the transportation of passengers and property by aircraft in interstate commerce, and for other purposes; and S. 1760, a bill to promote the safety of scheduled air transportation. March 8 to April 12, 1937.		1937
A report on the theory and application of single heading flight, additional conclusions and possibilities of pressure navigation		1946
Rex Lee, ace of the air mail		1929	Thomson Burtis
Ride on the wind		1937	Sir Francis Charles Chichester
Riders of the winds		1929	Edward Shenton
Roald Amundsen: - my life as an explorer		1927	Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsens siste ferd: med et tillegg om Krassinferden		1934	Adolf Hoel, Gunnar Hovdenak
Rocketry and jet-propulsion		1951	Constantin Paul Lent
Rocketry and space exploration		1958	Andrew Gallagher Haley
Rockets beyond the earth	[2d ed.].	1954	Martin Caidin
Rockets, new trail to empire, reviews and bibliography	2d ed.	1945	Robert Lee Farnsworth
Rockets through space: the dawn of interplanetary travel		1936	P. E. (Philip Ellaby) Cleator
The romance of aircraft		1919	Laurence Yard. Smith
The romance of modern exploration		1929	Fitzhugh Green
The runaway airship		1929	Eustace L. (Eustace Lane) Adams
Russ Farrell, airman		1924	Thomson Burtis, F. C. Yohn
Russ Farrell, border patrolman: an air adventure story for boys		1927	Leslie Crump, Thomson Burtis
Südatlantikflug		1934	Heinz Orlovius
Sailing South American skies		1936	James Saxon Childers
The Scarlet angel: the story of a seven-thousand mile journey chiefly in a single-seater light aeroplane		1934	Alban Ali
Seaplane design		1934	William Nelson
Seaplane solo		1933	Sir Francis Charles Chichester
Seaplane solo		1934	Sir Francis Charles Chichester
Seaplanes: maneuvering, maintaining, operating		1937	Daniel J. Brimm
Search		1932	Lincoln Ellsworth, Gilbert H. Grosvenor
See-sport-park, seesportanlage--landanlage: die zentralstätte für see- und luftsport, insbesondere zur anwendung des Nikolaus-verfahrens gegen die verkehrskrankheiten, eie see- und luftkrankheit, dreh- und höhenschwindel		1928	Joseph Nikolaus
Series of articles on compressor and fan design written by German engineers		1946
The seven skies		1930	Harry Frank Guggenheim
Seventeen days in the Mexican jungle		1933	Clarence L. McElroy
Severe storms detection and circumnavigation: final report, June 1963, Federal aviation Agency contract ARDS-A-176	Rev.	1963
Ships aloft: a construction book for future flyers		1936	Harold Platt, Clayton Knight
Significant American and international awards in aviation	Rev.	1954
Simple aerodynamics and the airplane		1929	Charles Norton Monteith, Captain E. E. Aldrin, Edwin Eugene Aldrin
Simple aerodynamics and the airplane		1932	Charles Norton Monteith, Clifton Carroll Carter
Simple aerodynamics and the airplane	5th ed.	1940	Clifton Carroll Carter
Simplified aerodynamics		1930	Alexander Klemin
Simplified definitions and nomenclature for aeronautics		1942	Leslie Aaron Thorpe
Simplified navigation for ships and aircraft: a text book based upon the Saint Hilaire method		1918	Chas. Lane Poor, Charles Lane Poor
Simplified theory of flight		1941	Thomas Charles Gillmer, Herman Erich Nietsch
Sky high: the story of aviation		1929	F. Alexander Magoun, Eric Hodgins
Sky high: the story of aviation		1935	F. Alexander Magoun, Eric Hodgins
Sky larking: the romantic adventure of flying		1929	Bruce Gould, Cosmo Clark
The sky's the limit		1930	Daniel Webb Tomlinson
Sky travel		1929	Andrew Ralph Romer, Mrs. Margaret T. Romer
Skycraft		1930	Augustus Post
The skycraft book		1932	Laura B. Harney, Roland H. Spaulding
Skycraft		1933	Augustus Post
Skyward: man's mystery of the air as shown by the brilliant flights of America's leading air explorer		1928	Richard Evelyn Byrd
Skyways		1926	Alan J. (Alan John) Cobham, MajorGen
Small airports		1959
Small airports, September 1, 1945		1945
Smoke streams: visualized air flow		1943	Charles Townsend Ludington
The social impact of the Warsaw Convention: a critique of the Lee decisions on the Warsaw Convention and a plea for early rectification		1952	Harold J. Sherman
Solid propellant rockets: an introductory handbook		1956	Alfred J. Zaehringer
Some aspects of postwar air and surface transportation		1945	Myles Elliott Robinson
Some fundamentals of aircraft engine design (with particular reference to the requirements for performance at varying altitudes)		1942
Space travel		1953	Kenneth William Gatland, Anthony M. Kunesch
Spanwise air-load distribution		1938
Speed wings		1930	Lieutenant John Vanderveer Deuel, John Vanderveer Deuel
The Spirit of St. Louis: one hundred poems		1927	Charles Vale
Sport- und verkehrsfliegerei		1926	Fritz Wittekind
Squadron of death: the true adventures of a movie planecrasher		1929	Dick Grace
Standard aircraft handbook		1952	Stuart Leavell, Stanley Bungay
Starters and generators: dealing with the operation and maintenance of Rotax starters and generators, B. T. H. and Armstrong-Siddeley starters, and notes on the construction, operation, and maintenance of gas starters		1941	Edward Molloy, E. W. (Ernest Walter) Knott
A statement of certain policies of the Executive Branch of the Government in the general field of aviation		1947
Stength of aircraft elements: War department, Air corps		1940
Stormi in volo sull' oceano		1931	Italo Balbo
The story book of wheels, ships, trains, aircraft		1935	Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
The story of aricraft		1933	Chelsea Curtis Fraser
The story of aviation		1930	E. George (Enoch George) Payne, Henry Robbins Barrows
The story of Lindbergh: the lone eagle, including the development of aviation, epoch-making flights of the world's greatest airmen, and the history of efforts to bridge the distance between the old and new worlds		1927	Richard J. (Richard Joseph) Beamish
The story of MATS, U. S. Air Force		1951
Story of "Southern Cross" trans-Pacific flight, 1928		1928	Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, C. T. P. Ulm., Charles Thomas Phillippe Ulm
The story of the aëroplane		1911	Claude Grahame-White
Strength of metal aircraft elements	Rev. ed.	1951
The Stromberg injection carburettor: dealing with one of the latest types of carburettor used on allied aeroplanes		1943	Edward Molloy, Charles Harold Fisher
A student guide for aeronautics		1950	Merrill E. Tower
Stunt flying		1930	Richard Duncan
Summary and background material for discussion on international ownership and operation of world air transport services		1948	John C. (John Cobb) Cooper
Supersonic aerodynamics and rocket propulsion	[1st ed.	1963	Robert F. Lee
Synoptic and aeronautical meteorology		1937	Horace Robert Byers
Teach yourself to fly		1942	Nigel Tangye
Technical aerodynamics		1935	Karl Dawson Wood
Technical aerodynamics	3d ed.	1955	Karl Dawson Wood
Technical Symposium, Materials Research, Development, and Application, 9-10 July 1958, Statler-Hilton Hotel, Dallas, Texas. [Technical papers		1958
Terminal airport financing and management		1946	Lynn L. (Lynn Louis) Bollinger, Alan Passen, Robert Edmond McElfresh
Test pilot		1935	James Collins
Textbook of aerial laws and regulations for aerial navigation, international, national and municipal, civil and military		1920	Henry Woodhouse
Textbook of aero engines		1920	E. H. Sherbondy, G. Douglas Wardrop, E H Sherbondy
Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering		1920	Henry Woodhouse
Textbook of military aeronautics		1918	Henry Woodhouse
Textbook of naval aeronautics		1917	Henry Woodhouse, Eear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske
Tha far horizon		1933	Henry Wysham Lanier
That's my story		1938	Douglas Corrigan
Theorie und Berechnung von Motor-luftschiffen		1912	C. (Carl) Eberhardt
The theory and performance of axial-flow fans		1937	Curt Keller, John Robert Weske, Lionel S. (Lionel Simeon) Marks
The third route		1929	Thornton Wilder, Sir Bart Philip Sassoon
This aviation business		1929	Ernest Wykeham Dichman
This bondage: a study of the 'migration ’of birds, insects and aircraft, with some reflections on 'evolution ’and relativity		1929	Bernard Acworth
This flying game		1936	Henry Harley Arnold, Brigadier General H. H. Arnold, Major Ira Eaker
Thrilling achievements of "bird men" with flying machines, being a comprehensive history of aerial navigation		1911	Jay Henry Mowbray
The thunderstorm: report		1950
To create a civil aeronautics authority: hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, on H. R. 9738, to create a civil aeronautics authority, to provide for the regulation of civil aeronautics, and other purposes. March 10, 11, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and April 1, 1938		1938
Towards freedom in the air: the story of the International civil aviation conference		1944
The tragedy of the Italia: with the rescuers to the red tent		1929	Davide Giudici, Davide Guidici
The tragedy of the Italia: with the rescuers to the red tent		1929	Davide Giudici
Trail blazing in the skies		1943	Shafto Dene
The trail of the conquerors		1936	Percy Thomas Etherton, Colonel P. T. Etherton, Vernon Barlow
Transoceanic aircraft and the merchant marine: Executive hearings before the Committee on the merchant marine and fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 52, a resolution authorizing investigation of the national defense program as it relates to the Committee on the merchant marine and fisheries. January 13, 25, and 26, 1944		1944
Transoceanic aircraft subsidies: Hearings before the committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, on Section 4 of H. R. 9710. March 22 and 23, 1938		1938
Transport aviation		1926	Archibald Black
Transport aviation (A handbook of the aviation business ): by Archibald Black		1990	Archibald Black
A treatise on aviation law: giving authorities with complete citations of federal and state decisions and including texts in full of the International convention of 1919, the Havana convention, Air commerce act of 1926, Air commerce regulations, Air commerce forms for pilots' licenses, etc., other federal statutes as relating to aviation, and state aviation statutes alphabetically arranged		1928	Henry Greene Hotchkiss
The triumph of the N. C.'s		1920	A. C. (Albert Cushing) Read, Holden Chester Richardson, George Conrad Westervelt
Twenty thousand miles in a flying-boat: my flight round Africa		1930	Alan J. (Alan John) Cobham
Un volo di 55.000 chilometri		1926	Francesco de. Pinedo
Une nouvelle conquête de l'homme: l'air		1927	Alphonse Berget
The United States in the air		1928	Mason M. (Mason Mathews) Patrick, F. Trubee Davison
United States overseas air cargo services		1949	N. W. Kendall
Unsere Luftstreitkräfte, 1914-18		1930	Walter von Eberhardt, Wilhelm Zickerick
Up in the air		1935	Marjorie Flack, Karl Larsson
Up ship adventures		1937	James Elliott Mooney
USSR missile and rocket program: bibliography		1961
Utilisation scientifique et contrôle des bois dans l'aviation et l'industrie		1920	E. Pitois
V/STOLAND Avionics System Flight-Test Data on a UH-1H Helicopter		1980	Fredric A. Baker, Dean N. Jaynes, Lloyd D. Corliss
Vehicles of the air: a popular exposition of modern aeronautics with working drawings	[2d ed.]	1910	Victor Lougheed
Vikings of the stars		1928	J. Augustus Knapp, Kmo, Kingsmill Commander
Vogelflug, luftfahrt und zukunft, mit einem anhang über krieg und völkerfriede, und mit anmerkungen		1911	Otto Heinrich Wiener
Volamekum: Handbuch für Luftfahrer (Ballon, Flugzeug, Luftschiff) nach den neuesten Erfahrungen und Bestimmungen (Deutscher Luftfahrer-Verband 8. X. 11)		1912	Hans. Boykow, Ansbert Vorreiter
Voli per il mondo: con presentazione di Benito Mussolini; 134 illustrazioni, 3 carte geografiche e un autografo		1929	Arturo Ferrarin
The voyage of the Chelyuskin		1935	Alec Brown, Otto ÍÙlévich Shmidt
The way of the air		1917	Edgar C. Middleton
The way of the air: a description of modern aviation		1917	Edgar Charles Middleton
WBAN manual of surface observations	6th ed.	1949
Weather and why: an aviator's presentation of aeronautical meteorology		1929	Ienar Ewald Elm
Weather guide for air pilots		1943	Elbert Lee. Eaton
Weiter mit 20 PS!: Neue abenteuer des Hindenburgfliegers		1933
Welt in Waffen: Berichte, Photos, Zahlen zur Debatte über Sicherheit und Abrüstung		1933	Friedrich Böer, Fritz Drach
What plane is that?		1936	Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Clarence Andrew Weymouth
Who's who in American aeronautics		1922	Lester D. (Lester Durand) Gardner
Why can't I fly?		1940	Sidney Lazarus
Wing for wing		1932	Thomson Burtis
Winged ships: poems of the air		1927	Eleanor Dixon Booth
Winged trails		1927	Louis Leon. De Jean
Wings around the world		1930
Wings away		1937	James Elliott Mooney
Wings of love: the love story of a girl aviator		1934	Vera. Brown
Wings of the navy		1936	Eustace L. (Eustace Lane) Adams, J. Clemens Gretter
Wings of war: an account of the important contribution of the United States to aircraft invention, engineering, development and production during the world war		1920	Theodore Macfarlane Knappen, Rear-Admiral D. W. Taylor
Wings over America: the future of air power		1946	(Writer on aviation) John Stuart
Wings over South America: by Frances Norene Ahl		1939	Frances Norene Ahl
Women with wings: a novel of the modern day aviatrix		1935	Genevieve Haugen
The wonder book of the air		1936	Carl B. Allen, Lauren D. (Lauren Dwight) Lyman
The wonders of science in modern life		1912	Edward Huntington Williams, Henry Smith Williams
Wood aircraft inspection and fabrication	Ed. Apr. 1951.	1951
Wood in aircraft construction: supply--suitability--handling--fabrication--design		1930	George W. (George William) Trayer
The work of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, 1928-1930		1930	W. L. G. (Wolfgang Louis Gottfried) Joerg
World airways--why not?: A practical scheme for the safeguarding of peace; report of a committee set up by Essential news and the Week-end review to examine the possibility of a world air-transport service and the abolition of aerial warfare (secretary: Jonathan Griffin)		1934	W. Arnold-Forster, Jonathan Griffin
The world in the air: the story of flying in pictures		1930	Francis Trevelyan Miller
The world's wings		1927	Warren Jefferson Davis
Wright aircraft engines: complete instructions for their installation, operation and maintenance		1921	John R. Cautley
Your wings		1936	Assen Jordanoff
Zeppelin: the story of lighter-than-air craft		1937	Ernst August Lehmann, Leonhard Adelt, Jay Dratler
Zeppelins lenkbares luftschiff und seine geschichte: einzig authentische ausgabe in Amerika		1915	Karl Halm
Zeppelins over England		1932	Huntley Paterson, Horst Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels Freiherr
The Zeppelins: the development of the airship, with the story of the Zeppelin air raids in the world war		1927	Ernst A. (Ernst August) Lehmann, Howard Mingos
Zweng aviation dictionary		1944	Charles Alfonso Zweng