The conquest of the air took a hundred years. Thanks, Wilbur and Orville Thanks Bleriot and all the others Then came the postwar boom, 1946 to 1975 and beyond; and every Tom, Dick and Harry was flying his own airplane. We all were. Aeronca, Beech, Cessna, Ercoupe, Piper, Stinson, Taylorcraft...those were the airplanes people flew. Maybe a couple million people at one time or other in the USA, half of whom actually got some some sort of pilot's license if only student status; as many or more who took a few flips in an airplane. At the peak, there were two or three hundred thousand personal...

Which are the best books on flying? Is there an "Epic of Flight"? Here are 107 titles reviewed in 22 categories of flight.