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Additional Reading

Books

Air Travel Tales from the Flight Crew: The Plane Truth at 35,000 Feet
   Frank A. Steward, Impact Publications, 2005

The Art of the Airways
   Geza Szurovy, MBI Publications Company, 2002

Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel
   Patrick Smith, Riverhead Books, 2004

At the Controls: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Book of Cockpits
    Tom Alison, Boston Mills Press, 2001.

Aviation Firsts: 336 Questions and Answers
   Joshua Stoff, Dover Publications, 2000

Chronicle of Flight: A Year-By-Year History of Aviation
    Walter J. Boyne, Lincolnwood Publications International, 2005

City of Flight: The History of Aviation in St. Louis
    James J. Horgan, Patrice Press, 1990

Classic American Airlines
    Geza Szurovy, MBI Publications Company, 2003

Classic American Airliners
    Bill Yenne, Zenith Press, 2005

Come Fly with Us!: A Global History of the Airline Hostess
    Johanna Omelia, Collectors Press, 2006

A Field Guide to Airplanes
    M. R. Montgomery, Mifflin Company, 2006

Flight: A History of Aviation in Photographs
   T. A. Heppenheimer, Firefly Books, 2004

Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
    R. G. Grant, DK Publishing, 2007

How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History
    Orville Wright, Dover Publications, 1988

If We Had Wings: The Enduring Dream of Flight
    Rinker Buck, Crown Publishers, 2001

Illustrated Book of Fighter Aircraft: From the Earliest Planes to the Supersonic Jets of Today
    Francis Crosby, Southwater, 2003

Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation
    Ronald Geibert, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2003

Looping the Loop: Posters of Flight
    Henry Serrano Villard and Willis M. Allen Jr., MBI Publications Company, 2000

Stewardess: Come Fly with Me!
    Elissa Stein, Chronicle, 2006

Wild About Flying: The Dreamers, Doers, and Daredevils
    Bruce Harris, Firefly Books, 2003

Wings of Yesteryear: The Golden Age
    Geza Szurovy, Motorbooks International, 2004

The Wright Brothers: A Biography
    Fred C. Kelly, Dover Publications, 1989

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
    Peter L. Jakab, National Geographic Society, 2003

Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II
    Amy Nathan, National Geographic Society, 2001

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Gateway Heritage Articles

"Autobiography of Value." Gateway Heritage 16.1 (1995): 25.

Cadle, Jean Douglas, revs. "Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow    Lindbergh." Gateway Heritage 14.3 (1993-1994): 62-63.

Call, Steven. "Rounding the Corner." Gateway Heritage 16.3 (1995-1996): 18-27.

Hensley, Glenn S. "Stix, Baer, and Fuller". Gateway Heritage 7.1 (1986): 1.

"
Interview with Reeve Lindbergh." Gateway Heritage 19.3 (1998-1999): 56-60.

Pisney, Raymond F. "James S. McDonnell and His Company: A Vision of Flight and
   Space." Gateway Heritage 2.1 (1981): 3-17.

Pisney, Raymond F. "Ozark Airlines: From Missouri Feeder to National Air Carrier."
   Gateway Heritage 7.1 (1986): 2-21.

Simon, John E. "Chicago and Southern: A Personal Glimpse of Early Commercial
   Aviation in St. Louis." Gateway Heritage 4.1 (1983): 2-7.

Smith, Gary N. "Charles A. Lindbergh Remembered: A Hero for St. Louis and the World."
   Gateway Heritage 8.1 (1987): 34-39.

Smith, Gary N. "The Charles A. Lindbergh Trunk: A Time Capsule of His St. Louis Years."
   Gateway Heritage 7.1 (1986): 34-39.

"Spirit of St. Louis." Gateway Heritage 20.2 (1999): 62-71.

Streeter, John Douglas. "The Charles A. Lindbergh Photograph Collection." Gateway
   Heritage
7.3 (1986-1987): 34-41.

Streeter, Jean Douglas. "Charles A. Lindbergh’s Papers: Aviation History Spiced with Hero
   Worship." Gateway Heritage 4.3 (1983-1984): 30-37.

Woodson, Frank S. "Transportation Toys: Reflections of the Adult World." Gateway
   Heritage
8.1 (1987): 32-39.

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