Flight, 1913, The Aeronaut's Library
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- "The Aeronaut's Library". Flight, 4 February 1911, p. 84.
A selected bibliography on aeronautics.
General works:
- Alphonse Berget, The Conquest of the Air
- Victor Lougheed, Vehicles of the Air
- Alfred Hildebrandt, Airships Past and Present
- R. P. Hearne, Airships in Peace and War
- Charles C. Turner, Aerial Navigation of To-Day
- Frederick Walker, C.E. Aerial Navigation
- R. W. A. Brewer, The Art of Aviation.
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, My Airships
- (The present writer prefers Lougheed's work among these, even though it suffers from "careless arrangement" and "total absence of any index".)
Classics:
- "Aeronautical Classics" series "published by the oldest Aeronautical Society in the world."
- James Means, Aeronautical Annual
Bird flight:
- Marey
- Mouillard, Mouillard, 1881, L'Empire de l'Air
Aerodynamics
- "Lanchester's first volume on Aerial Flight"
- Samuel Pierpont Langley, Experiments in Aerodynamics and Internal Work of the Wind
- The Mechanics of the Earth's Atmosphere (Smithsonian)
- Herbert Chatley, Problems of Flight and the Force of the Wind
- T.E. Stanton: Air Resistance and Wind Pressure (?) (National Physical Laboratory)
Model making:
- V.E. Johnson, Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning
Reference:
- Moedebeck, Pocket-Book of Aeronautics, 1907
- Flight Manual (Aero Club)
Miscellaneous:
- "the small book in which Sir Hiram Maxim gives an account of his experiments"
- Proceedings (1894) of the Aeronautical Navigation Conference at 1893 World's Fair
- Annual report of the Smithsonian Institute
- Paul Brocket, Bibliography of Aeronautics
- F. T. Jane, Jane, Airships