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Use these links and resources to learn more about aviation history and aeronautics.

General Interest

Museums Bibliography
  • How Our Army Grew Wings: Airmen and Aircraft Before 1914 by Charles DeForest Chandler and Frank P. Lahm. Ronald Press, NY: 1943.
  • From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts; The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois by Benjamin Delahauf Foulois and Caroll V. Glines. McGraw-Hill, NY: 1968.
  • Jannus: an American Flier by Thomas Reilly. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL: 1997.
  • The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom Crouch. W. W. Norton & Co., NY: 1989.
  • Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower by Dik Alan Daso. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC: 2000.
  • The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot by Alice and Martin Provensen. Puffin Books, NY: 1983
  • Air Mail: an Illustrated History 1793-1981 by Donald B. Holmes. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., NY: 1981
  • Turk Bird: The High-Flying Life and Times of Eddie Gardner by James H. Bruns. National Postal Museum, S.I., Washington, DC: 1998.

For other information on the history of College Park Aviation Museum or it's many people and firsts, in addition to the books listed above see the following:

  • Achievement in Radio by Snyder F., Wilbert; Brasaw L., Charles. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1986
  • The Airmail - Jennies to Jets by Lipsner, Captain Benjamin. Wilcox and Follett Co., New York, New York, 1951
  • Early Air Pioneers by Sunderman F., Major James. Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, New York, 1961
  • Emile Berliner by Wile, Frederick. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Brooklyn, NY, 1926
  • Foulois and U.S. Army Air Corps. by Shiner, John. Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1983
  • From the Ground Up by Weick/Hansen. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1983
  • Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight by Roseberry, C. R. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY, 1972
  • The Papers of Orville & Wilbur Wright, vols. 1 & 2 by McFarland, Marvin. Ayer Company Publishers, Inc. 1998
  • Wilbur & Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers by Howard, Fred. Ballatine Books, New York, NY, 1987
  • Tracks Across the Sky by Shamburger, Page. J.B. Lippincott Co., New York, NY 1964
  • Aerial Pioneers by Leary William. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1985
  • The U.S. Army Air Arm by Hennessey, Juliet. Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1985
  • The Saga of the Airmail by Glines, Carroll. D. Van Nostrand Co. Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1968
  • Solo to the Top of the World by McLeod A., Gustavos. Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C., 2003
  • The Published Writings of Wilbur & Orville Wright by Jakab, Peter and Young, Rick. Smithsonian, Institution Press, 2000
  • The Regulars by Coffman, Edward. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2004
  • Maryland Aloft by Preston, Lanman, Breihan. Maryland Historical Trust Press, 2003
  • Training to Fly, Military Flight Training 1907-1945 by Rebecca H. Cameron. Air Force History & Museums Program, 1999
  • The Logbook of Signal Corps No. 1, The U.S. Army's First Airplane by Meghan Cunningham, editor. Air Force History & Museums Program, 2004
  • Hap Arnold, Architect of American Air Power by Flint O. DuPre. Air Force Academy Series, MacMillan Co., NY 1972
  • Aerial Mail Service by A.D. Jones. The American Airmail Society, 1993
  • Saga of the U.S. Airmail Service by Air Mail Pioneers. Air Mail Pioneers, Inc. 1962
  • Max - I didn't get to know him very well by A.D. Jones. The American Air Mai Society, 2004



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