Kniga soderzhit kratkiy ocherk o razvitii aviatsionnoy nauki i tekhniki v Latvii v XX veke, nachinaya s pervykh poletov letatel'nykh apparatov. V ney predstavleny osnovnye napravleniya razvitiya aviatsionnoy nauki, promyshlennoy realizatsii rezul'tatov, rol' vedushchikh uchenykh i ikh nauchnykh shkol, sozdannykh v rizhskikh nauchnykh tsentrakh: v vysshikh aviatsionnykh uchebnykh zavedeniyakh, nauchno-issledovatel'skikh institutakh Grazhdanskoy aviatsii, a takzhe ikh svyazi s AN LSSR i drugimi nauchnymi tsentrami respubliki i SSSR v tselom. Vse eti nauchnye tsentry v 90-e gody ischezli vmeste...