To Fill the Skies with Pilots The Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1939-46

Name: To Fill the Skies with Pilots The Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1939-46
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ISBN: 9780252019944

ISBN-10: 0252019946

ISBN-13: 9780252019944

Edition: 1993

Authors: Dominick A. Pisano

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This book examines an area of Franklin D. Roosevelt's aviation policy, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP). Extending from 1939 to 1946, the CPTP was the first government attempt to use American colleges and universities as settings for training large numbers of pilots. More important, the CPTP was a multipurpose program conceived by Robert H. Hinckley, head of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, to serve as a New Deal economic panacea for private flying (then a neglected segment of the aviation industry) and as a bulwark in the national defense by providing trained pilots. On another level, it was a means of preparing American youth for the emerging air age. Dominick Pisano traces the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 7/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The CPTP, the New Deal, and War Preparedness



"Baptism of Fire": The CPTP and the Legislative Process



The Uneasy Transition from Peace to War



The CPTP Goes to War



The CPTP and Postwar Aviation


Conclusion


Appendixes


Notes


Bibliography


Index