San Antonio College Library

Information on Early Airplanes.

Flight this Fascinating journey through a century of flight captures the spirit and excitement of aviation past and present, from the Wright brothers' first airborne attempts to the story behind the space race.

A career biography of a man who got his start as a gliding enthusiast in the early 1900s and became, in time, Germany's principal designer of commercial and military aircraft and a mainstay of Hitler's Luftwaffe.

"From National Book Award winner Martin W. Sandler, a fascinating look at the week that brought aviation fever to the world. In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them ars later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet in Rheims,...