Early Aircraft

Early Aircraft with 37 books, covers the history and technology of flight, as well as fiction by such authors as Jules Verne.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents

History and Technology

•  Aeroplanes (from Every Boy's Mechanical Library) by J.S. Zerbe
• Aeroplanes and Dirigibles in War by Frederick Talbot
• The Aeroplane Speaks by H. Barber
• Aviation in Peace and War by Major-General Sir F. H. Sykes
• Die Brueder Wright [Wright Brothers, in German] by A. Hildebrandt, 1909
• British Airships: Past, Present, and Future by George Whale
• Dominion of the Air: the Story of Aerial Navigation by Rev. J.M. Bacon
• Flying Machines: Construction and Operation, a practical book which shows ... how to build and naigate the modern airship by W.J. Jackman and Thomas H. Russell, 1912
• History of Aeronautics by E. Charles Vivian, 1920
• Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton

Fiction

• R.M. Ballantyne
• Up in the Clouds
• Charles Amory Beach
• Air Service Boys in the Big Battle
• Air Service Boys over the Atlantic or the Longest Flight on Record, 1920
• Margaret Burnham
• The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
• The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly, 1912
• The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise, 1911
• Chelsea Curtis
• Around the World in Ten Days
• James Driscoll
• The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps
• George Durston
• The Boy Scout Aviators by George Durston
• John Luther Langworthy
• The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing or Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics
• The Aeroplane Boys Flight or a Hydroplane Roundup
• The Airplane Boys Among the Clouds
• Alfred Lawson
• Born Again
• Wilbur Lawton
• The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by Wilbur Lawton
• The Boy Aviators in Africa
• The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash
• Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-180 AD)
• Trips to the Moon
• John Munro
• A Trip to Venus, 1897
• Edgar Allan Poe

The Balloon Hoax

The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall

• S. Harvey Ralphson

Boy Scouts in an Airship

• Jules Verne
• 5 Weeks in a Balloon
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Off On a Comet
• Round the Moon
• Robur the Conqueror
• Arthur Winfield
• The Rover Boys in the Air