aviation: Bibliography

See A. de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars (tr. 1939); B. Markham, West with the Night (1942, repr. 1987); W. Green and G. Pollinger, The Aircraft of the World (1979); L. K. Loftin, The Evolution of Modern Aircraft (1985); D. Todd and J. Simpson, The World Aircraft Industry (1986).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The Era of Mass Commercial Aviation
• The Birth and Development of the Airplane
• Early Interest in Human Flight
• Bibliography

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