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The standard history of the American aerospace enterprise—with good reason.
Richly illustrated and splendidly written, Flight in America charts the manifold ways in which the airplane has touched virtually every feature of American enterprise, history, and culture—leisure and business travel, commercial transportation, national defense, and imaginative literature. More than 125 lively photographs document the beauty of flying machines and the daring of the men and women who invented, built, and flew them.Praise for previous editions:"The most comprehensive survey of the history of American aeronautics and space flight yet published.
Bilstein casts wide and far to net virtually everything from technological trends and research and development to the effect of air travel on the expansion of major league baseball in the 1950s and early 1960s... A superior work that will satisfy aero buffs and professionals alike.
By far the best book on man and air travel yet written.
For those who won't soon be able to visit the National Air and Space Museum, perhaps the next best thing would be to read Flight in America.
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Book Details
Publication Date
Status
Available
Trim Size
7
x 10
Pages
416
ISBN
9780801866852
Illustration Description
126 halftones
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918
Chapter 2. The Aviation Business, 1918-1930
Chapter 3. Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940
Chapter 4
Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918
Chapter 2. The Aviation Business, 1918-1930
Chapter 3. Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940
Chapter 4. Air Power at War, 1930-1945
Chapter 5. Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955
Chapter 6. Higher Horizons, 1955-1965
Chapter 7. From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975
Chapter 8. Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983
Chapter 9. Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000
Notes
Index
