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49 GENERAL & CIVIL AVIATION • SPACE FLIGHT Enter the Drones: The FAA and UAVs in America Bill Carey. The history of how unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly called "drones," evolved in the last quarter century from military applications to a disruptive new commercial industry. As the book describes, the evolution faces considerable legal and technological hurdles—though none higher than winning regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. Size: 6"x 9" • 61 color and b/w photos • 192pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5077-1 • hard cover • $29.99 Jet City Rewind: Aviation History of Se- attle and the Pacific Northwest Timothy A. Nelson. Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles to jumbo jets. This book recaptures that historical awe, and connects it with a sense of place. Do you know exactly where the Boeing Company began? Where was the magnificent 314 Clipper built? This book will answer those questions and many more as we dig into the aviation archeology of the “Jet City” and its surroundings. Size: 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" • 200 color and b/w photos • 144pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5106-8 • hard cover • $29.99 Planes of the Presidents: An Illustrated History of Air Force One Bill Holder. This book covers United States presidential aircraft including Boeing Clippers, DC-6s, C-54s, Con- stellations, 707s and 747s, as well as a variety of Air Force and Marine Corps support aircraft. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 color/bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1187-5 • soft • $19.95 Desert Boneyards: Retired Aircraft Stor- age Facilities in the US Hoeveler & Krämer. The Desert Boneyards are gigantic desert aero- dromes in which military and civilian aircraft from all over the world are stored, either permanently or for a time, in order to serve as sources of spare parts or to be reactivated after a certain time. The reader is shown the best-known of these desert boneyards in Arizona and California. Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 color photos • 160pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3662-1 • hard • $45.00 Lockheed Constellation: A Legends of Flight Illustrated History. Wolfgang Borgmann. The Lockheed Constellation is the definitive postwar prop airliner. This book provides a col- orful illustrated history of the type. Readers will enjoy several hundred vintage photographs featuring aircraft and airlines from all over the world. There is ample coverage for all three major commercial variants of the aircraft: the Constellation, the Super Constellation, and the Starliner. • 9" x 9" (228 x 228 mm) • 260 color and b/w photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-6822-6 • HC • $29.99 US / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Queen of the Skies: The Lockheed Con- stellation . Claude G. Luisada. This extensively researched account, gathered from archival docu- ments, interviews, and the author’s own personal experiences, sets the history of the Lockheed Constellation against the backdrop of the years 1940 to 1980. Illustrated with more than 100 photos and diagrams, Queen of the Skies is a fascinating story, particularly for airplane or aviation history enthusiasts. Size: 7"x10" • 51 b/w photo & illus. • 424pp. • ISBN: 978-0-7643-4639-2 • hard cover • $45.00 Frontier Airlines: A History of the Former Frontier Airlines 1950–86 Gregory R. Stearns. Presented in this book is the story of the former Frontier Airlines from its founding just after WWII to its eventual demise in the 1980s. The legacy of pioneering air service, purchasing jets, and competing after airline deregulation are just a few of the entertaining storylines that capture a golden and bygone era. The human side of how airlines operate is also documented. Size: 8.5"x11" • 280 color/bw photos • 240pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4040-6 • hard • $49.99 Hunting theWind: Pan AmericanWorld Airways’ Epic Flying Boat Era, 1929–1946 Teresa Webber & Jamie Dodson. Hunting the Wind captures the excitement, the adventure, and the glamor of Pan Am’s magnificent flying boats. Crewmember’s and passenger’s vivid accounts will appeal to history buffs, aviation enthusiasts, and anyone who values innovation, and the indominable spirit of the American Dream. Size: 6”x9” • 130 b/w photographs • 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5541-7 • hard 978-1-5073-0232-3 (E-Book) • $34.99 The Republic Airlines Story 1945–1986 Terry Love. Republic Airlines and its twelve predecessors formed one of the finest national airlines that ever spanned the nation. Although in existence for only six years, it created a legacy of dependability and service while flying into more locations than any other airline of the time. This book includes photos and illustrations depicting all phases of the history of Republic Airlines and its predecessors. Size: 8.5"x11" • 250 color/bw photos • 160pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4247-9 • hard • $49.99 The Book of Air Shows Philip Handleman. This book is a full-color celebration of the great American air shows. From the early bi- and tri- planes, to the WWII era warbirds, up to the present day F-15 and SR-71, any and all aircraft that fly through the modern air shows is presented. Size: 9"x12" • 200 color photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-88740-471-5 • hard • $49.95 Aerial Firefighting Wolfgang Jendsch. Includes fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes essential to successful firefighting. Many rare, never-before-published images show firefighting aircraft in action. The detailed text provides technical descriptions of forest fire fighting and speculates on the future of firefighting aviation. Size: 9"x12" • 415 color photos • 352pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3068-1 • hard • $39.99 R.G. Smith: The Man and His Art An Autobiography with Rosario “Zip" Rausa. “R.G." describes his transition from helping design tactical aircraft to painting them in such compelling and dramatically beautiful fashion that he earned a worldwide reputation as one of the most skilled and admired aviation artists of all time. Size: 11"x8.5" • 140 photos • 112pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0755-X • hard • $29.95 Unmanned Air Vehicles: An Illustrated Study of UAVs Bill Holder. Although the prime mission of military UAVs has been reconnaissance and surveillance, there is also consideration for mounting weapons on the vehicles. Surprisingly, just about every type of propulsion system has been considered, and they have used both single and multiple engines, with piston, rotary, turbojet, pulsejet, and rocket engines. Size: 8.5"x11" • 150 color/bw photos • 72pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1500-5 • soft • $19.95 SPACE FLIGHT Space Hardware: Artifacts, Equipment, and Sites from the American Space Program John Gourley. Featuring over 380 color photo- graphs, this illustrated guidebook presents a visual history of the United States' space adven- tures, from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Space Shuttle programs to the current Inter- national Space Station and Space X commercial ventures. This work enlightens readers as to what kind of space artifacts are on display to the public, and inform as to where they can be seen. Size 9" x 9" (230 x 230mm) • 380 color and b/w photos • 144 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-7643-6528-7•hard•$24.99US/£22.99GBP/$35.99CAD The History of the American Space Shuttle Dennis R. Jenkins. This bookprovides adetailedoverview of thehistoryofwingedspacecraft and thedevelopment of the vehiclewe call the "space shuttle," and provides a technical description of the orbiter, main engines, external tank, and solid rocket boosters.Twopages are dedicated to eachof the 135missions flown by theAmerican space shuttle, including technical data, crew names, and photos of eachmission. Size: 8.5"x11" • 1,040 color and b/w photos 336pp. • ISBN: 978-0-7643-5770-1• hard ISBN: 978-1-5073-0175-3 (E-Book) • $59.99 Rockets and Missiles of Vandenberg AFB: 1957–2017 Joseph T. Page II. This book chronicles Vandenberg AFB’s rocket and missile launches that helped the US win the ColdWar. Never before seen photographs illustrate the variety of space launch vehicles used to lift national security satellites into orbit, as well as the operational testing of missiles used by United States nuclear alert forces. Size: 8.5"x 11" • 207 color/bw photos • 192pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5679-7 • hard • $39.99 Disasters in Space: Stories from the US–Soviet Space Race and Beyond Hermann Woydt. This book records over a dozen American and Soviet space disasters from 1967 to the present day. Presented are tragic and near tragic missions such as NASA’s Gemini 6A and 8, Apollo 1 and 13, the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, as well as the Soviets’ Soyuz 1, 11, and 18-1, and more. Size: 6"x 9" • 166 color/bw photos • 144pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5617-9 • hard • $19.99 The Soviet Space Program: First Steps: 1941– 1953 Eberhard Rödel. This concise history is the first book in a new series on the Soviet space program, and features many rare photographs, diagrams, and charts. When Soviet rocket experts examined the first Nazi V-2s in early 1945, they immediately realized that their own technology was years behind what the Germans had developed. Size: 6"x9" • 207 color and b/w photos • 128 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5539-4 • hard cover • $19.99 The Soviet Space Program: The Lunar Mission Years: 1959–1976 Eugen Reichl. With the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union started the space race; the race for the moon soon followed. This book chronologically examines the fifty-nine missions the USSR sent, or intended to send to the moon from 1959 to 1976. Size: 6"x 9" • 93 color/bw photos • 160pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5675-9 • hard • $19.99 The Soviet Space Program: The N1, the Soviet Moon Rocket Eugen Reichl. The complete history of this rarely known Soviet space program is presented here, starting in 1959, along with detailed technical descriptions of the N1’s design and development.A full discussion of its attempted launches, disasters, and ulti- mate cancellation in 1974 completes this definitive history. Size: 6" × 9" • 89 color and b/w photos • 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5855-5 • hard cover • $19.99 Colorful Aircraft: Unique Paint Schemes on the World’s Passenger Airliners Norbert Andrup. Detailed color images of nearly all the special paintings of international airlines, along with background information on their history. Airlines included are: Lufthansa, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Alitalia, SAS, Finnair, KLM, Iberia, SAA, Cathay Pacific, JAL, Korean Air, Quantas, Air China, PIA, Qatar, Etihad, El Al, Southwest, and many others. Size: 8.5"x11" • 300 color photos • 144pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3656-0 • hard • $45.00