This pictorial history tells the stories of the Wright Brothers, the Longhead Brothers, Glenn Curtuss, Glenn Martin, Donald Douglas, Bill Boeing and many others who engineered America's aviation story. From the Wright Brothers' fragile biplane to the massive jumbos of the early 21st century and from Lindbergh's daring crossing of the Atlantic in 1927 to the spectacular non-stop round-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager in 1986, this volume also reveals the machines that have made history...