The Gooney Bird, its affectionate wartime sobriquet, was meant to fly, and fly she did — over 100 billion miles with over 700 million passengers.

The author has carefully researched (and annotated) a masterpiece, including a roster of every surviving DC-3/C-47 in the United States he could locate, as well as 22 appendices, with one of these including details on all 43 variants produced. The appendices alone are worth the purchase of the book. There has never been another volume on the DC-3 that has accomplished so much, and in a style that all readers can enjoy. The Legacy of the DC-3 brings people and historical perspectives together to provide fascinating reading. You may have other DC-3 books on your shelf, but you need this one to get the full story. One well-known reviewer described the book "as probably the best book on any aviation topic to come out in several years."

365 pages, SB, 8½ x 11 with about 500 photographs and illustrations. $29.95

175 photos, 98 pages, 81/2" x 11", softbound, $19.95

When WWII broke out, Vought responded to a Navy fighter need with the famed F4U Corsair, which went on to become the longest production type aircraft in aviation history.

The Corsair became a legend during WWII. More than a story of Vought aircraft, book also delves into the human side, the management, the workers and the business climate through the years to the 1980's.

Softbound, 81/2 x 11, 168 pages, 316 photos, 39 general

arrangement 3-views, $22.95

By Robert Hirsh & Barbara Schultz

Harry P. Williams and James R. Wedell formed one of the most productive alliances in aviation during the 1930s. Their company, the Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation, left a remarkable legacy to the world of air racing and the state of Louisiana, Jimmie Wedell possessed a keen sense of aerodynamics. His aircraft designs set a precedent by demonstrating that bigger engines, with more power, were not always the right combination to place first. The Wedell-Williams story is about individual genius, business savvy, and dedicated teamwork. It is a history of air racing at its best!

This is a well-documented segment of aviation history that records one more important contribution made by its pioneers, including that of Roscoe Turner.

124 pages, softbound, 170 photos, 19 detailed drawings shrink wrapped, 8.5” x 11”. $19.95

By Everett A. Long

Everett Long not only researched this subject as a historian, but he re-created the flight flown by Russian pilots in his Cessna 172 Skyhawk. In June 1990 he flew the 2,500 mile route from Ladd Field near Fairbanks, Alaska to Yakutsk, Russia. "Cobras Over the Tundra" is a short story and photographic history of the epic airmada of American warplanes and the men who flew them on the Alaska-Siberia route. Both the American and Russian pilots had to endure unimaginable challenges of weather and remote wilderness to make these flights a success and greatly contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Nearly 8000 American made warplanes flew the Alaska-Siberia route. "Cobras Over The Tundra" and interviews with Long were featured in the Fox Channel "War Stories with Oliver North" episode "The Untold Story of the Eastern Front."

163 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, SB, over 140 high quality B&W and color photos. Text in Russian and English. $12.50

by Peter M. Bowers

Peter Bowers is a foremost aviation historian and author. His byline has appeared hundreds of times as Peter Bowers has written numerous books, articles, columns, and stories for a variety of aviation periodicals over the last 70 years! In the process, Bowers has acquired one of the world's largest private collections of airplane photos and reference data. Authors and publishers worldwide draw from his research files. This particular book is a potpourri of Bowers' writings, as his aviation historical columns have appeared in General Aviation News over past years. THIS BOOK INCLUDES 181 HISTORICAL AVIATION STORIES AND 650+ PHOTOS. Stories are about the following aircraft manufacturers and/or particular models: Aeronca, Albatros, Alon, Antoinette, Armstrong-Whitworth, Arrow, Beck, Beardmore, Bee, Beech, Bell, Besson, Bleriot, Blohm & Voss, Boeing, Bordelaise, Bowers, Bowlus, Brandenburg, Breese, Bucker, Bullock-Curtiss, Burnelli, Canadian Aeroplanes, C.A.N.T., Caproni, Chase, Champion, Columbia, Consolidated (Convair), Cox Klemin, Cunliffe-Owen, Curtiss, Curtiss-Wright, Cycloplane, Darmstadt, deHavilland, Dornier, Douglas, Elias, Euler, Fairchild, Farman, Fiesler, Flying Boats, Focke-Wulf, Fokker, Frankfort, Goppingen, Gotha, Great Lakes, Grumman, Hall, Heinkel, Henschel, Homebuilts, Horton, Hughes, Junkers, Keystone, Kondor, Kreider-Reisner, Krilov, LaBourdette-Halbron, Lejeune, Levasseur, Seaplanes, Sellers, Seversky, Siemens, Sikorsky, Sopwith, Spad, Sperry, Stampe, Standard, Stearman, Stearman-Hammond, Stinson, Stits, Taylorcraft, Thomas-Moore, Thunderbird, Transports, Travel Air, Vega, Vickers, Voisin, Vought, Vultee, Waco, Wagner, Wright-Bellanca (WB-2), Wright Brothers, Zeppelin and much more! 376 pgs, SB, 8.5 x 11, 650+ photos. $29.95