Roscoe Turner Aviation's Master Showman

Name: Roscoe Turner Aviation's Master Showman
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ISBN: 9781560987987

ISBN-10: 1560987987

ISBN-13: 9781560987987

Edition: 1999

Authors: Carroll V. Glines, James H. Doolittle

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The 1920s and 1930s were the golden age of aviation in America. No one personified this era better than Roscoe Turner. With his waxed moustache, polished boots, riding breeches and pet lion, he was just the kind of character aviation needed.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 10/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


The Boy from Corinth


Balloons to Barnstorming


Flying the S-29-A


Hell's Angels and Nevada Airlines


Flying with Gilmore


Winning the Bendix and Thompson Trophies


The Turner-Pangborn-Nichols Team


The Race to Melbourne


Roscoe's Flying Corps and the Turner Special


Winning the Thompson Trophy--Again


The Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corporation


The Crusade for Air Power


Appendix


Notes


Index