Flight in America From the Wrights to the Astronauts

Name: Flight in America From the Wrights to the Astronauts
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ISBN: 9780801866852

ISBN-10: 0801866855

ISBN-13: 9780801866852

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Roger E. Bilstein

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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.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.97" wide x 10.12" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface to the Third Edition


Abbreviations



The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918



The Aviation Business, 1918-1930



Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940



Air Power at War, 1930-1945



Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955



Higher Horizons, 1955-1965



From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975



Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983



Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000


Notes


Index