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Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latin word avis ("bird") and the suffix -ation.

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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World

Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier―A World War II Military History Book

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It

UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle

The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic

The Saigon Guns: A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

The Red Arrows: The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team

Span of Control: What to Do When You're Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, and Ready to Get What You Really Want

Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75

Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster

The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War

N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

Above the Reich: Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant

Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot

Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States

Shatter the Sky: What Going to the Stratosphere Taught Me About Self-worth, Sacrifice, and Discipline

Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage

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“ High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Wher ...more ”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

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“ The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature’s whims. ”
― Slavoj Žižek

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