Flight in America
From the Wrights to the Astronauts
Roger E. Bilstein(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. April 1994
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-8018-4827-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this revised and expanded edition, Bilstein continues his history of the closing decade of the present century and offers a glimpse of developments in the next. "Flight in America" charts the transformation by the airplane of virtually every aspect of American life, tracing aviation from the earliest discoveries of the airplane's possibilities for entertainment, commerce and war to the fantasies of science fiction and the realities of jet and space travel. New to this edition are discussions of airline mergers and deregulation, defence cutbacks, military operations, NASA restructuring and the revamped space programme. Throughout, 126 contemporary photographs show the machines and the people who invented them, built them and flew them.
Reviews / Votes
"Bilstein casts wide and far to net virtually everything from technological trends and research and development to the effect of air travel on the expansion of major league baseball in the 1950s and early 1960s...A superior work that will satisfy aero buffsand professionals alike."--'Journal of American History'More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
126 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4827-8 (9780801848278)
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