📚 Aircraft & Airliners

The flying machines themselves — their design, the great airliners and warbirds, and how they work through the air and sometimes fail.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject airplanes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Aircraft accident report	United States. National Transportation Safety Board.	1975	99
	Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft	Fred T. Jane	1933	97
	The Aeroplane Speaks	H. Barber	1916	34
	The air pilot's manual	Trevor Thom	1987	23
	Aviation engines	Victor Wilfred Pagé	1917	15
	The A-B-C of aviation	Victor Wilfred Pagé	1918	14
	Aircraft propulsion	Saeed Farokhi	2008	13
	Super Simple Paper Airplanes	Nick Robinson	1991	10
	Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (7)	John McPhee	1963	8
	Aircraft Design	Daniel P. Raymer	1989	8
	Aviation maintenance technician series	Dale Crane	1993	8
	Jane's aircraft recognition guide	David Rendall	1996	7
	Jet	Sir Frank Whittle	1953	6
	Flight without formulae	A. C. Kermode	1960	6
	U.S. civil aircraft	Joseph P. Juptner	1962	6
	Aviation	Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith	1970	6
	Plane	Chris Oxlade	1996	6
	Paper airplanes	Christopher L. Harbo	2011	6
	Flight without formulae	Alfred Cotterill Kermode	1940	5
	Aircraft hydraulic systems	William A. Neese	1984	5
	The Magic School Bus taking flight	Gail Herman	1997	5
	From the ground up	Alexander Forsythe MacDonald	1941	4
	Stick and Rudder	Wolfgang Langewiesche	1972	4
	Aircraft electricity & electronics	Thomas K. Eismin	1994	4
	The development of jet and turbine aero engines	Bill Gunston	1997	4
	Jets (Monster Machines)	David Jefferis	2001	4
	Performance, stability, dynamics, and control of airplanes	Bandu N. Pamadi	1998	3
	We thought we heard the angels sing	James C. Whittaker	1943	2
	Methods for estimating stability and control derivatives of conventional subsonic airplanes	Jan Roskam	1971	2
	StuttgarterProfilkatalog	Dieter Althaus	1981	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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