Browse Items (23 total)

'Events in the skies', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-3-1; Aerial; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Afghanistan; Africa; Airplanes; bombing; Developing countries; Economic aspects; Engineering; Family; Lessing, Doris May; Poor children; Southern

'The aircraft brake scandal', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1972; 1972-4-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; B.FGoodrich Company; Brakes; Business ethics; Corrupt practices; Engineering; Fraud; Kermit Vandivier; United States; Vandivier, Kermit

'The case against the supersonic transport', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-7-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Concorde (Jet transports); Design and construction; Engineering; Europe; Gibson, John E.; High-speed aeronautics; Supersonic planes; Supersonic transport planes; United States

'The revolution in small plane flying', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-8-1; 1960s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air travel; Airplanes; Engineering; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting; Private planes; United States

'Russian roulette on our airways?', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-9-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air traffic control; Aircraft accidents; Airplanes; Collision avoidance; Conine, Ernest; Engineering; Investigation; Radar air traffic control systems; United States; United StatesCivil Aeronautics Administration

'How we invented the airplane', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-6-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters); Orville Wright; United States; Wilbur Wright; Wright, Orville

'The U.S.A. from the air', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-10-1; 1950s; Aerial exploration; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Cross-country flying; Emergency maneuvers (Aeronautics); Engineering; Landforms; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting; Private planes; United States

'What the Wrights really invented', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-6-1; 1950s; Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; History; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Orville Wright; United States; Wilbur Wright

'Look down, look down', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1948; 1948-11-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Engineering; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting; Sightseeing; Wolfgang Langewiesche

'Upstairs to Iceland', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1948; 1948-10-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Engineering; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting; Transatlantic flights; Wolfgang Langewiesche

'Flying high', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-2-1; Aerodynamics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; High altitude aeronautics; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Research; United States

'Making the airplane behave', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-5-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots; Airplanes; Engineering; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting; Safety measures; Training of

'The three secrets of human flight', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1941; 1941-4-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Engineering; Human factors; Langewiesche, Wolfgang; Piloting

'Flyers are inarticulate', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-3-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Beirne Lay; Engineering; Fear of flying; Lay, Beirne; Piloting; Psychological aspects; Psychology; United States

'�Aerobatics, thirty minutes�', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-2-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots; Airplanes; Beirne Lay; Engineering; Lay, Beirne; Military; Piloting; Stunt flying; United States

'Learning to fly at forty', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-12-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Engineering; Flight training; Henry M. Winans; Piloting; Winans, Henry M.

'How safe is flying?', Harpers

Tags: 1930; 1930-3-1; 1930s; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aircraft accidents; Airplanes; Engineering; Flight; Murphy, Charles J. V.; Safety measures; United States

'Cargoes through the clouds', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-1-1; 1920s; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air mail service; Air traffic rules; Airplanes; Airports; Airships; Airspace (International law); Commercial; Design and construction; Engineering; Europe; Freight; Great Britain; Planning; Stockbridge, Frank Parker; Transatlantic flights; United States

'The real conquest of the air�a laboratory problem', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-8-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aerospace engineering; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; Fuel; Safety measures; Speed, Buckner; United States

'How battles are fought in the air', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1918; 1918-2-1; Aerial operations; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots; Airplanes; Driggs, Laurence La Tourette; Engineering; France; Germany; Great Britain; Military; World War I

'The war in the air', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-12-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplane factories; Airplanes; Antiaircraft artillery; Aviation; Bailey, Vernon Howe; Curtiss, Glenn Hammond; Engineering; Military; Pictorial works; Seaplanes; United States; United StatesNavy

'Aeronautic news', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-4-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots; Airplanes; Caricatures and cartoons; Engineering; Newell, Peter; Puns and punning; United States

'Bixby goes over in his aeroplane, followed by Ralph, his faithful bird-dog', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-1-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; Bird dogs; Caricatures and cartoons; Engineering; Newell, Peter; Puns and punning; United States