Books list

The book outlines in detail the history of tailless aircraft as well as of so called “flying wings”.

This tome details the development and testing of aviation technology carried out in five construction bureaus headed by V.M. Myasishchev.

The book introduces the reader to the use of American aviation technology in Russia, starting with the Wright biplane and ending with the latest models of Boeing aircraft.

This bibliography of early Swedish and European aeronautics covers more than three centuries, starting with the idea of flight in the sixteenth century and proceeding up to dirigibles, balloons and fixed-winged flying apparatuses of the end of the nineteenth century. It holds more than 10,000 entries, consisting of scientific works, press material, brochures, etc. A comprehensive index allows easy access. In Swedish and English.

This bibliography covers Swedish and European aviation during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It shows more than 20,000 entries, including scientific studies as well as newspaper articles, brochures, etc. The bibliography is easily accessible by way of four different indexes. In Swedish and English.

The book shows the cooperation of Russia with Germany in the fields of aviation and aeronautics. It focuses especially on the period between the end of the 1940s, beginning of the 1950s, when engineers and scientists were moved from Germany to Russia to build jet aircraft and engines for Soviet aviation. In English.

Based on many examples taken from the history of Russian and foreign aviation, the book highlights the important lines of development regarding aircraft, from the first appearance of projects of “flying machines” to the most modern winged apparatuses. The book contains information about 1,000 airplanes.

The leading historian of the firm Tupolev acquaints the readers with its flying apparatuses, developed at one of the oldest aviation design bureaus. The study is based on documentary material as well as remembrances of aviation veterans.

Reading this book, you will gain detailed knowledge about the family of airplanes and pilotless aircraft developed during the 1940s and 1950s under the leadership of the aviation constructor Semen Alexseevich Lavochkin.

The priest and mathematician Bjorkstadius was – in all likelihood – the first Swede to carry out flights heavier-than-air using a fixed wing apparatus. The author places Bjorkstadius in a wider historical framework, looking both at the development of the idea of flight from ancient days forward as well as at practical flying attempts that had taken place before the seventeenth century. In English.