Flight in America : from the Wrights to the astronauts
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Flight in America : from the Wrights to the astronauts
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-393) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements-human flight. In this revised and expanded third edition, Bilstein chronicles changes in military, commercial, and space aviation in the 1990s. He offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.
Table of Contents
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: 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
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