Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts
Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements—human flight. 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.

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Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts
Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements—human flight. 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.

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Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

by Roger E. Bilstein
Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

by Roger E. Bilstein

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Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements—human flight. 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801866852
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 08/02/2001
Edition description: third edition
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Roger E. Bilstein is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is the author of Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929; Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles; and Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, the last available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918
Chapter 2. The Aviation Business, 1918-1930
Chapter 3. Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940
Chapter 4. Air Power at War, 1930-1945
Chapter 5. Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955
Chapter 6. Higher Horizons, 1955-1965
Chapter 7. From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975
Chapter 8. Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983
Chapter 9. Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000
Notes
Index

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