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Time-Life Books, Inc., produced a series of aviation books called the Epic of Flight. The volumes cover the history of flight and and were divided into the following titled: The Jet Age; The Airline Builders; Soldiers of Fortune; Flying the Mail; The Carrier War; The Aeronauts;The Road to Kitty Hawk; The First Aviators; Barnstorming and Speed Kings; The Helicopters; The Explorers; Architects of Air Power; Fighting Jets; The Luftwaffe; The Soviet Air Force; Designers and Test Pilots; Women Aloft; The Giant Airships;The RAF at War; and The Bush Pilots.

 Identifier

NASM.XXXX.0103

Creator

Time-Life Books, Inc.

Date

[ca. 1890-1983]

Provenance

Time-Life Books, Inc., Gift, 1983, XXXX-0103, not NASM

Extent

25.07 Cubic feet ((23 records center boxes))

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a selection of materials from the complete information files compiled by Time-Life Book, Inc. for the preparation of their 'Epic of Flight' series of books. The materials are primarily photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, posters, maps, etc. A few original photographs, transparencies, and negatives are included. The materials are groups by subject of the individual books in the series.

Rights

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

Restrictions

Any restrictions are unknown.

Topics

Aeronautics

Aeronautics -- History

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Maps

Posters

Photographs

Clippings