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BOOKS ON AVIATION & HUMAN FLIGHT

Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
Flight: 100 Years
of Aviation

Black Wings
Black Wings:
The American Black in Aviation

Stick and Rudder
Stick and Rudder:
An Explanation of
the Art of Flying

To Conquer the Air
To Conquer the Air:
The Wright Bros. and the Great Race
for Flight

Night Flight
Night Flight

West with the Night
West with
the Night


Flight My Life in Mission Control
Flight My Life
in Mission Control

Moon Lander
Moon Lander:
How We
Developed
the Apollo
Lunar Module



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Raymonde de Laroche
Ruth Bancroft Law
Bill Lear
Jean-Marie Le Bris

Sebastien Lenomard
Otto Lilienthal
Charles Lindbergh

Allan Lockheed
Grover Loening
Jim Lovell*



Raymonde de Laroche, 1910, Print
Raymonde de Laroche, 1910,
Print

Raymonde de Laroche,
née Elise Raymonde Deroche
b. 8-22-1882; Paris, France
d. 7-18-1919; Le Crotoy Airfield, France

Actress Raymonde de Laroche was the first woman to receive an airplane pilot's licence.


Ruth Bancroft Law, First Female Army Pilot, Print
Ruth Bancroft Law, Print

Ruth Bancroft Law
b. 3-21-1887; Lynn, MA
d. 12-1-1970; San Francisco, CA

Ruth Bancroft Law had many firsts as an aviatrix, or woman pilot: she was the first woman to fly at night, to loop the loop, and the first woman permitted to wear a military uniform. Law was not allowed to fly in combat but her appearances were successful in recruiting and selling Liberty Bonds for WWI.


Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear
Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear

Bill Lear
b. 6-26-1902; Hannibal, MO
d. 5-14-1978; Reno, Nevada (leukemia)

William Lear is best remembered as the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. FYI ~ Lear was also the inventor of the first car radio, the 8-track audio tapes, and was instrumental in the corporate history of Motorola.


Le Bris's Project the Bird-Like Flying Device of Jean-Marie le Bris, Giclee Print
Le Bris's Project-
the Bird-Like Flying Device
of Jean-Marie le Bris,
Giclee Print

Jean-Marie Le Bris
b. 1817; Brittany
d. 1872; Douarnenez

Sea captain Jean-Marie Le Bris accomplished a glider flight in 1856 with a design based on his observations of the highly efficient albatross soaring over cover great distances with little exertion.


Parachute Successfully Demonstrated by Sebastien Lenormand, Giclee Print
Parachute Successfully Demonstrated by
Sebastien Lenormand,
Giclee Print

Sebastien Lenomard
b. 5-25-1757; Montpellier, France
d. 12-1837; Castres

In December 1783 Sebastien Lenomard jumped from a Montpelier observatory tower in Paris with a 14’ round piece of linen cloth shaped like an umbrella. He named the device a ‘parachute’, Fr. parare=to shield, chute=fall. (oh- I just got ‘parasol’ - shield from sun.)

Leonardo da Vinci made notations of a device that would break a fall c. 1495; and in 1617 Venetian Fauste Veranzio constructed an application based on da Vinci's drawing and jumped from a tower in Venice.

The Chinese also worked on the concept of letting a person fall safely from some height c. 1200, and in 852 AD a gentleman named Armen Firman sustained only minor injuries when he lept from a tower in Cordoba using his cloak stiffened with wooden struts.


Otto Lilienthal, German Birdman, Giclee Print
Otto Lilienthal, German Birdman, Giclee Print

Otto Lilienthal
b. 5-23-1848; Anklam, Pomerania Province, Prussia
d. 8-10-1896; Berlin

Aviation Otto Lilienthal was known as the “Gilder King” and referred to as “The Father of Flight”.

Lilienthal died from injuries suffered in a glider crash.


Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927 Fine-Art Photo (Transatlantic Flight May 21, 1927)
Charles Lindbergh with the
Spirit of St. Louis
Transatlantic Flight
May 21, 1927

Charles Lindbergh
b. 2-4-1902; Detroit, MI
d. 8-26-1974; Hawaii

FYI - The Lindy Hop dance is supposedly named after Charles Lindbergh's famous “hop” over the Atlantic.

Charles Lindbergh with Will Rogers


Three Lockheed P-38 Lightnings in Flight, Photographic Print
Three Lockheed P-38 Lightnings
in Flight, Photographic Print

Allan Lockheed, née Loughead
b. 1-20-1889; Niles, CA
d. 5-26-1969; Tucson, AZ

Aviation pioneer and engineer Allan Lockheed formed an airplane company along with his brother, Malcolm Loughead, that became Lockheed Corporation.


Grover Loening Testifying at the Howard Hughes Hearings, Photographic Print
Grover Loening Testifying
at the Howard Hughes Hearings,
Photographic Print

Grover Loening
b. 9-12-1888; Bremen, Germany (father stationed at US Consul)
d. 8-26-1974

Grover Loening earned the first ever degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Columbia University, was the author of Military Airplanes, and an airplane manufacturer.


Astronaut James Lovell in Apollo Spacesuit, Photographic Print
Astronaut James Lovell Photographic Print

James Lovell
b. 3-25-1928; Cleveland, OH, raised in Milwaukee, WI

James Lovell was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission (1970) that was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, and mission control, after a critical equipment failure en route to the Moon.

James Lovell quotes ~
• “Houston, we've had a problem here.”
• “Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”


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