Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (✰ Londres, Hosted by Credo Reference. ; ✝ Local desconhecido, Charles Gibbs-Smith at Information Britain web site) foi um polímata e historiador de aeronáutica e aviação britânico.
O seu obituário no The Times o descreve como: "uma autoridade reconhecida no início do desenvolvimento do voo na Europa a na América" Richard P. Hallion o chamou de: "O maior de todos os historiadores do início da aviação".
Obra Lista parcial The Aircraft Recognition Manual (1944) – formerly Basic Aircraft Recognition The Great Exhibition of 1851 (1951). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office The Wright Brothers: A Brief Account of their Work, 1899–1911 (1963). London. Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics, 1796–1855 (1962)Sir George Cayley's aeronautics, 1796-1855 / by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith The Invention of the Aeroplane 1799–1909 (1966), London: Faber & Faber. A Directory and Nomenclature of the First Aeroplanes 1809 to 1909 (1966). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office Clément Ader – his flight claims and his place in history (1968), London: Science Museum Aviation: an historical survey from its origins to the end of World War II (1970; 2nd ed 1985) The Bayeux Tapestry (1973), London ; New York, Phaidon ; Praeger The Rebirth of European Aviation 1902–1908 (1974). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Ligações externas List of written works at LibraryThing.com Review of The Rebirth of European Aviation in Flight International, 15 May 1975 p.806 Review of The Aeroplane, and historical survey Flight 1960 Gibbs-Smith on Cayley "Hops and Flights, a roll call of early powered take-offs" Flight April 1959 Television interview with Gibbs-Smith on the subject of UFOs
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