Austin, Cleared for Takeoff Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City

Name: Austin, Cleared for Takeoff Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City
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ISBN: 9780292702684

ISBN-10: 029270268X

ISBN-13: 9780292702684

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kenneth B. Ragsdale, Kenneth B. Ragsdale

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"Altogether, this first-rate study will interest twentieth century historians, as well as those with special interests in business, urban, transportation, and state and regional history." Great Plains Quarterly Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands who mobbed Charles A. Lindbergh and The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris sixteen years later. Though no one that day in Austin could foresee all the changes that would result from manned…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 8/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Cal, Glenn, Benny, and the Origins of Austin Aviation



Austin, the University of Texas, and World War I



Barnstormers, Businessmen, and High Hopes for the Future



A Bright Side of the Great Depression



War Training Returns to the University



An Era of Peace and the Growth of Private Flying



Mueller, Marfa, and the Gathering Storm



Era of Indecision



City on a Tightwire


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index