Goddard, Robert Hutchings
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
Godfrey, Brett
goldbeater’s skin
Golden Knights
Gonesse, France
Goodlin, Chalmers “Slick”
Google
Gordon, Louis
Gordon Bennett Cup
Gosnay power station
government responses to ballooning
GPS navigation system
Grassetti, Gaetano
gravity
Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace, London, 1851)
Great Yarmouth: first casualty of zeppelin bombardment
Green, Charles
Green Park, London
greenhouse effect
Guatemala
Guggenheim, Daniel
Guillamet, Henri
Haji-Ioannou, Stelios
No Frills
Halifax bombers
Ham (chimpanzee)
Hamburg firestorm
Hamilton, Charles “Daredevil”
Hamilton, Tom
Handley Page 42 biplane
Handley Page Victor
Hanford, Washington
hang gliding
Happy Bottom Riding Club, Mojave Desert
Harbou, Thea von
Harlow, Jean
Harmon Trophy
Harper’s magazine
Havens, Beckwith
Hawaii
Hawkes, Graham
Hawking, Stephen
Hawks, Frank
Heathrow Airport
helium-filled balloons: see gas balloons
Hell’s Angels (film)
Hempsell, Mark
Henderson, Arthur
Henson, William Samuel
Hercules transport aircraft
Heston airfield, Middlesex
High Sierra
high-altitude aircraft
Hilton, Barron
Hindenburg (LZ–129)
Hiroshima atomic bombings
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico: Aeromedical Field Lab
Hollond, Robert hot-air balloons
B’s own balloon
burners
envelopes
“fiestas”
first manned aircraft (1783)
Lindstrand’s plans to cross the Atlantic
propane cooking gas
record (1991)
rising with the heat of the air
as a sport
successful transatlantic crossing (1987)
Hotelissimo Hotel, Gonesse
House of Commons
Hubble Space Telescope
Hughes, Howard
Hughes H-1 racer
Hughes H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose”
Hurricanes
hydrogen-filled balloons: see gas balloons
Icarus
ICO Global: attempt to circumnavigate the world (1998–9)
Imperial Airways
Indian Space Research Organization
instability, inherent
airplanes
bicycles
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
International Explorers Society, Miami
International Space Station
Internet, and travel agencies
Ishigaki island, Japan
Ivens, Todd
Jaguar rocket project
Jannus, Roger
Jannus, Tony (“the Birdman”)
creates the first scheduled flight (1914)
Jannus Brothers Aviation
Jastasquadron (“the Flying Circus”)
Jeffries, Dr. John
Jensen, Marty
jet engine
jet streams
Johns, W. E.
Johnson, Amy
Jones, Brian
Julian, Hubert Fauntleroy (“the Black Eagle of Harlem”)
Jupiter
K2
Kaiser, Henry J.
Kamecke, Theo
Kármán, Theodore von
Kármán line
Kelly, Ned
Kendrick, Mike
Kipfer, Paul
kite experiments
Kittinger, Joe
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Komarov, Vladimir
Krüger, Hardy
Kubrick, Stanley
Küchemann, Dietrich
Kusaba, Major General Sueyoshi
Lake Titicaca
Lake Winnebago
Laker, Freddie
Laker Airways
Lalande, Jérôme
Lana, Father Francesco de
Lancasters
Lang, Fritz
Las Cruces airport, New Mexico
Latécoère, Pierre
Latham, Hubert
LCROSS probe
Le Bourget Air Field, Paris
Leggatt, Jeremy
Leonardo da Vinci
Lewis, Cecil
Sagittarius Rising
Ley, Willy
Libya
Lignes Aériennes Latécoère (“the Line”)
Lilienthal, Otto
Birdflight as the Basis for Aviation
Limavady, Northern Ireland
Lindbergh, Charles
solo flight across the Atlantic (1927)
The Spirit of St. Louis
Lindenberg Aerological Observatory, Berlin
Lindstrand, Per
B learns ballooning
his balloons
crosses Pacific with B (1991)
engineering career
final bid to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon (1998)
first balloon flight
in Morocco
plans to cross the Atlantic by balloon
successful transatlantic crossing (1987)
Livingstone, David
Lockerbie disaster (1989)
Lockheed Constellation
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Lockheed Super Electra airliner
Locklear, Ormer
London Eye
London Underground
Long-EZ aircraft
Lorin, René
Los Angeles International Airport
Louis XVI, King of France
Lovelock, James
low-carbon economy
low-cost airlines
Lowe, Thaddeus
Luce, Congresswoman Clare Boothe
Lufthansa
Luftschiff Zeppelin LZ-1
Luftwaffe
Lunardi, Vincenzo
Lynx spacecraft
McCarthy, Rory
McCornack, Jack
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin pocket fighter
Mach, Ernst
Mach numbers
McKinney, Bevin
McWhirter, Allan
Madame Tussaud’s waxwork museum, London
Makani
Man in Space (film)
Manhigh I
Manhigh II
map views
March Field
Marion, Fulgence (Nicolas Camille Flammarion)
Mars
Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
Martin, Glenn
Martin, Minta
Martin M-130 seaplanes China Clipper
Marie Antoinette, Queen
Mason, Monck
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Matters, Muriel
May, Glen
Melvill, Mike
Mercury
Mercury programs
Mermoz, Jean
Metropolis (film)
MGM Studios
Microsoft
Mignet, Henri
Minden-Tahoe Airport, Nevada
Mineseeker charity
Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP)
Ministry of Transport (UK)
Minos, King
Minotaur
Minsk air-traffic control
missile-airplane
Miyakonojo, Japan
model aircraft
Mojave Air and Space Port: Voyager Restaurant
monoplane
Montgolfier, Étienne
Montgolfier, Joseph
Montgolfier brothers
first manned aircraft (1783)
materials used
as paper makers
rivalry with Charles
tethered manned flights
unmanned balloon launches
montgolfières
Montpellier Observatory, France
Moonwalk One (documentary)
More, Kenneth
Morlancourt Ridge, France
Morocco
motorjet engine
Mount Everest
Mount Rushmore
Mueller, Tom
Murad IV, Sultan
Muroc Air Field
Musk, Elon
Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis (2008)
Nadar (Gaspard Felix Tournachon)
Nagasaki atomic bombings
Napoleon Bonaparte
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA)
National Airways (later Northeast Airways)
National Gas Turbine Establishment
National Guard
National Parachute Test Center, El Centro, California
NATO
Naucrate
Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey
Nazca Indians
Nazca Lines, Peru
Nazca Plains, Peru
Nazi Party
Nebel, Rudolf
Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost
Nevada Desert
New Standard D-25 crop duster and mail carrier
New York Airways
New York Port Authority
Newman, Larry
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
Nieuport 11 fighter plane
Nigeria: air safety
Nima, Fumio
Niven, David
Niwa, Fumio
Noonan, Fred
North Korea
Northcliffe, Lord
Nott, Julian
oars issue
Oberammergau, Bavarian Alps
Oberth, Hermann
Die Rakete zu den Planetenraeumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space)
Ways to Spaceflight
Odekirk, Glenn
O’Grady, Rosie
Ohain, Hans von
oil issue
Okuno island, Japan
Olympus engines
Oishi, Wasaburo
Opel, Fritz von
Operation Paperclip
Operation Surgeon
open-class glider records
Orteig, Raymond
Orteig Prize
Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Experimental Aircraft Association “Air Venture”
outer space
Overberg Air Show, South Africa (2009)
oxygen levels
Pacific Ocean
ditching a balloon in
hot-air balloon record (1991)
relative featurelessness
Page, Larry
Palmer, Richard
Pan Am (Pan American Airways)
parachuting
Art Starnes
Blanchard’s experiments
Garnerin’s parachute
Kittinger
Lenormand’s work
Leonardo’s designs
Tiny Broadwick
Valentin’s first jump
Parasev (Paraglider Research Vehicle)
Paris bombings (First World War)
Paris Le Bourget air show (1973)
passengers, as pioneers
Patzke, Joe
PayPal
Peak Oil
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Peel, Lieutenant Clifford
Peenemünde, German
Pégoud, Adolphe
Peltier, Thérèse
Pentagon, Washington
Perdix
Perreyon, Edmond
Pesch (a Benedictine priest)
Peterson, Jack, Jr.
Pheil, Abe
Piccard, Professor Auguste
Piccard, Bertrand
Pickens, Tim
Pilcher, Percy
pinwheels
polyethylene resin
Post, Wiley
Powell, Russell
Power Jets
Prather, Lieutenant Commander Victor, Jr.
Pratt & Whitney
pressure suits
Prévost, Marcel
Project Mercury
propellers
Proteus experimental launch vehicle
Pterodactyl Ascender
Pückler-Muskau, Prince
Punch
Purdue University, Indiana
Putnam, George
QinetiQ
Quechua language
radioactive particles
Raeburn, Flight Lieutenant Harold
RAF College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire
RAF Hendon
Raitz, Vladimir
ramjets
Rathbun, Richard
Reach for the Sky (film)
Reaction Engines
Reaction Research Society
Reading Aero Club
Rebel Billionaire, The (television show)
Red Arrows
Redstone rocket
Redux
Republic P-47
Réveillon, Jean-Baptiste
Rice, Bob
Richardson, Bill
Richthofen, Bolko von
Richthofen, Lothar von
Richthofen, Manfred von (“the Red Baron”)
The Red Battle Flyer
Ritchie, Alex
Robert, Anne-Jean
Robert, Marie-Noël
Robertson, Étienne
Robida, Albert
Rocket Racing League
Rockies, the
Rogallo wing
Rolls, Charles
Rolls-Royce
Romain, Pierre
Romanian Army
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Ross, Commander Malcolm
Rossby, Carl-Gustaf
Roswell, New Mexico
Rotary Rocket
rotary-wing aircraft
Roton space capsule
Rousseau, Yves
Royal Aeronautical Society
Library
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE)
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Royal Vauxhall
Royce, Frederick
Rozier, Jean-François Pilâtre de
rozières
Russell, Archibald
Russky Vityaz
Rutan, Burt
Rutan, Dick
Rutan, Irene
Rutan, Tonya
Ryan, Craig: The Pre-Astronauts
Ryan M-2 mail plane
Ryanair
Saab fighter
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Salina, Kansas
San Francisco Chronicle
Sandys, Duncan
Saturn
Saturn 5 rocket
Savoy, Safety Inspector Neal
Scaled Composites
scheduled services
Scottish & Southern
scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet)
“Sea Monster”
Second World War
Selfridge, Tom
September 11, 2001, attacks
Serious Fraud Office
Shannon Airport, Ireland
Sheldon, John
Shenandoah (experimental airship)
Shepard, Alan
Sherpas
shock waves
Short Brothers
Siebold, Pete
Sikorsky, Igor
Simons, Major David
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
(film)
skydiving
Skyhook project
Skylark rocket project
Skylon concept
Skytrain
Slats (MGM’s lion)
Smithsonian Institution
“solid state” airplane
sound barrier
Soviet Union
and Aeroflot
and balloon overflights
collapse of
parachuting
space race
Soyuz 1
Soyuz spacecraft
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
Space shuttle
space-satellite design
Spaceport America
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipTwo
Spirit of St. Louis
Spitfires
sport ballooning
Sputnik I
SS
Stagecoach
Stanford Hall, Leicestershire
Stanley, Henry
Stansted Airport
Stapp, John Paul
Star Dust incident (1947)
Starnes, Art (Aerial Maniac)
Stewart, James
Stock, Dave
stratosphere
Stringfellow, John
Stuart-Jervis, John
Stultz, Wilmer
subsonic flight
Sud Aviation
Sudan: air safety
Sunday Times
supersonic flight
surveillance balloons
Szondy, David
Tai, Alex
Tampa Bay, Florida
TargetMPH team
Tateno observatory, Japan
Taube warplane
Taylor, Charles
temperate zones
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: “Locksley Hall”
Theseus
Thorneycroft, Peter
Time magazine
Titan
Tomorrowland theme park
Toulon, France
Towers, Lieutenant John
Trajectory Model
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) (later TWA)
Transhab space station
travel agents
Trevor, Elleston: The Flight of the Phoenix
tri-motor aircraft
Trippe, Juan Terry
troposphere
TRW
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
TSR-2 strike aircraft
Tupolev Tu-144
Tupungato glacier
turbofans
turbojet engine
TWA Moonliner
Twain, Mark
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Uchatius, Franz von
Ufa studio
Union Army Balloon Corps
United Airlines
United States
changing role of Pan Am
development of the jet
domestic air market
first live nuclear ballistic-missile tests
rocket fever
September 11, 2001, attacks
space race
University of Heidelberg
U.S. 44th Infantry Division
U.S. Air Mail
U.S. Army Air Forces (later U.S. Air Force)
U.S. Army Air Service
U.S. Congress
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
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