Flight in America
From the Wrights to the Astronauts
3rd Edition
Published on 27. September 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-8018-6685-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The standard history of the American aerospace enterprise-with good reason. -- Tom D. Crouch Museums New York 2004More details
Edition
third edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
126 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
126 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-6685-2 (9780801866852)
DOI
10.56021/9780801866852
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
04/1994
2nd Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
€37.99
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Person
Roger E. Bilstein is a professor of history, emeritus, at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is the author of Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929 and Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles.
Content
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