Barnstorming to Air Safety
An informative and often humorous look at the development of aviation from the early days of flying to the jet age. While regaling his audience with stories of barnstorming risk-takers, rumrunners, early Naval air schools and descriptions of some of the first passenger flights, the former NTSB Air Safety Chief also demonstrates both the need for, and the gradual development of, air safety measures to protect the flying public. Yet the simple desire for the safety of the flying public has not been as influential as politics and greed, and while providing details of aircraft investigations and findings, Collar discloses some of the policies that interfere with complete air safety.
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Barnstorming to Air Safety
An informative and often humorous look at the development of aviation from the early days of flying to the jet age. While regaling his audience with stories of barnstorming risk-takers, rumrunners, early Naval air schools and descriptions of some of the first passenger flights, the former NTSB Air Safety Chief also demonstrates both the need for, and the gradual development of, air safety measures to protect the flying public. Yet the simple desire for the safety of the flying public has not been as influential as politics and greed, and while providing details of aircraft investigations and findings, Collar discloses some of the policies that interfere with complete air safety.
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Barnstorming to Air Safety

Barnstorming to Air Safety

by Charles S. Collar
Barnstorming to Air Safety

Barnstorming to Air Safety

by Charles S. Collar

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An informative and often humorous look at the development of aviation from the early days of flying to the jet age. While regaling his audience with stories of barnstorming risk-takers, rumrunners, early Naval air schools and descriptions of some of the first passenger flights, the former NTSB Air Safety Chief also demonstrates both the need for, and the gradual development of, air safety measures to protect the flying public. Yet the simple desire for the safety of the flying public has not been as influential as politics and greed, and while providing details of aircraft investigations and findings, Collar discloses some of the policies that interfere with complete air safety.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780966778403
Publisher: Lysmata Publishing
Publication date: 11/01/1998
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
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