In the following pages, Jim Ray, talented in his work of presentation and a conscientious student of aviation, presents a chain of highlights in the progress of

The story of military and civil aviation in the United States, from the first flight of the Wright Brothers to the most modern of superbombers and airliners.

This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviat

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic fl