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George Owen Squier: U.s. Army Major General, Inventor, Aviation Pioneer, Founder of Muzak

Product Description: During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist...read more

By Laurence A. Lyons

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9780786476350 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 27, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist.

Alexander P. De Seversky and the Quest for Air Power

By James K. Libbey

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9781612341798 | Potomac Books Inc, August 1, 2013, cover price $39.95

The Aircraft Designers: A Grumman Historical Perspective

By Michael V. Ciminera

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9781624101779 | Har/pstr edition (Amer Inst of Aeronautics &, August 1, 2013), cover price $39.95

The Great American Jet Pack: The Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device

Product Description: For a few decades, jet packs seemed to be everywhere: on Gilliganâs Island, Lost in Space, Thunderball, and even the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics. Inventors promised weâd all be flying with them now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting usÂ to work without traffic jams and trains...read more

By Steve Lehto

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9781613744307 | Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For a few decades, jet packs seemed to be everywhere: on Gilliganâs Island, Lost in Space, Thunderball, and even the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.

Hero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation

By William F. Trimble

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9781591148791 | Naval Inst Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $37.95

Memoirs of an Aeronautical Engineer: Flight Testing at Ames Research Center, 1940-1970

Book by Anderson, Seth B.

By Seth B. Anderson

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9780964553743 | N. A. S. A. Ames Research Center, August 1, 2002, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Book by Anderson, Seth B.

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9781470032869, titled "Memoirs of an Aeronautical Engineer: Flight Testing at Ames Research Center: 1940-1970" | Createspace Independent Pub, May 12, 2008, cover price $16.99 | also contains Memoirs of an Aeronautical Engineer: Flight Testing at Ames Research Center: 1940-1970

Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes

By Fred Haise (foreword by) and Billy Watkins

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9780803260412 | Bison Books, December 1, 2007, cover price $19.95

The Balloonist: The Story of T. S. C. Lowe---Inventor, Scientist, Magician, And Father of the U.S. Air Force

Product Description: Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (1823-1913) was called by Carl Sandburg "the most shot-at man of the Civil War." A flamboyant showman, dedicated scientist, and starry-eyed dreamer, Lowe, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, went to the federal government with a view to convincing the authorities in the use of balloons for observation purposes...read more

By Stephen Poleski

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9781929490271 | Frederic C Beil, May 28, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (1823-1913) was called by Carl Sandburg "the most shot-at man of the Civil War.

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

The aeronautical engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the 747 offers an insider's perspective on the development of the world's largest and fastest jet aircraft during the 1960s golden age of American aviation and technology. Reprint.

By Jay P. Spenser and Joe Sutter

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9780060882426 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The aeronautical engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the 747 offers an insider's perspective on the development of the world's largest and fastest jet aircraft during the 1960s golden age of American aviation and technology.

Equations of Motion: Adventure, Risk and Innovation

By William F. Milliken

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9780837613482 | Bentley Pub, November 30, 2006, cover price $59.95

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet And Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

The aeronautical engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the 747 offers an insider's perspective of the development of the world's largest and fastest jet aircraft during the 1960s golden age of American aviation and technology.

By Jay P. Spenser and Joseph F. Sutter

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9780060882419 | Smithsonian Books, May 31, 2006, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: The aeronautical engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the 747 offers an insider's perspective of the development of the world's largest and fastest jet aircraft during the 1960s golden age of American aviation and technology.

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Traces the life story of the rocket scientist whose work was dismissed after his accidental death revealed his occult beliefs, discussing his contributions to rocketry and his participation in the occult community of 1930s Los Angeles.

By George Pendle

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9780151009978 | Houghton Mifflin, February 15, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the life story of the rocket scientist whose work was dismissed after his accidental death revealed his occult beliefs, discussing his contributions to rocketry and his participation in the occult community of 1930s Los Angeles.

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9780156031790 | Mariner Books, February 28, 2006, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Traces the life story of the rocket scientist whose work was dismissed after his accidental death revealed his occult beliefs, discussing his contributions to rocketry and his participation in the occult community of 1930s Los Angeles.

Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes

Product Description: In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge: the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. It seemed like an impossible task and one that the Russiansâwho had launched the first satellite and put the first man into Earth orbitâwould surely perform before us...read more

By Fred Haise (foreword by) and Billy W. Watkins

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9780275987022 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2005, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: In 1961, President John F.

Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

By John Carter

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9780922915569 | Feral House, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.95

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9780922915972 | Feral House, March 16, 2005, cover price $16.95

The Power To Fly: An Engineer's Life

By Martin Ducheny and Brian H. Rowe

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9781563477096 | Amer Inst of Aeronautics &, June 30, 2004, cover price $39.95

Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors

By John David Anderson

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9780801868740 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $39.95

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9780801868757 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 7, 2004, cover price $22.95

Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War

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By Michael Jaeger, Lauritzen and T. S. C. Lowe

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9780773465220 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $139.95

Hell-Rider to King of the Air: Glenn Curtiss' Life of Innovation

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By Kirk W. House

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9780768008029 | Not Applicable, September 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age

By Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab

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9780792269854 | Natl Geographic Society, May 1, 2003, cover price $35.00

Laird Airplanes: A Legacy of Speed

Product Description: E.M. "Matty" Laird was an American success story - born to a working class Chicago family, he turned his innate mechanical abilities and fascination with flight into a career that put him at the top of aviation's pioneers. As early as 1915, he was flying a home-made biplane in exhibitions; and in 1919 he set-up shop in Wichita, building the Laird Swallow, America's first commercial aircraft...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edward H. Phillips

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9781580070706 | Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers, December 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: E.

More With Less: Paul McReady and the Dream of Efficient Flight

By Paul Ciotti

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9781893554504 | 1 edition (Encounter Books, August 1, 2002), cover price $26.95

Jerome C. Hunsaker and the Rise of American Aeronautics

Product Description: Jerome C. Hunsaker's cumulative effect on both American aeronautics and engineering is immense. Early in his career, he established the aeronautical engineering program at MIT and organized the U.S. Navy's aviation design and procurement program during World War I...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William F. Trimble

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9781588340061 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Jerome C.

When Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear