Milestones of Flight
From Hot-Air Balloons to SpaceShipOne
Published on 28. June 2016
112 pages
978-1-61312-924-1 (ISBN)
Description
Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the military pilots who first circumnavigated the globe, from the initial space rocket to the moon walk, from the earliest manmade satellite to today's spy drones. The book also describes what inventions-such as rocket propulsion, the wind tunnel, and the silicon chip-helped move flight upward and beyond. Profusely illustrated with objects from the Smithsonian's collection, Milestones of Flight provides an inspiring look at America's contributions to aviation. The book includes a bibliography, author's note, and index.
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Tim Grove is Chief of Museum Learning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He has written a number of exhibition and website components for young people, including Web activities. His children's newspaper insert about the Lewis and Clark expedition for Newspapers in Education was distributed nationally. Grove lives in Falls Church, Virginia.; The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, maintains the largest collection of historic air- and spacecraft in the world, including the plane Chicago and a copy of First Lieutenant Leslie Arnold's journal.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 BALLOONING
- 2 WRIGHT FLYER
- 3 CURTISS JN-4, THE "JENNY"
- 4 DOUGLAS WORLD CRUISER
- 5 GODDARD ROCKET
- 6 SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
- 7 FULL SCALE WIND TUNNEL
- 8 DOUGLAS DC-3
- 9 UAVs
- 10 BELL XP-59A AIRACOMET WHITTLE AND JUMO 004 ENGINES
- 11 BELL X-1, GLAMOROUS GLENNIS
- 12 BOEING 367-80, "DASH 80"
- 13 SPUTNIK 1 AND EXPLORER 1
- 14 NORTH AMERICAN X-15
- 15 DISCOVERER/CORONA
- 16 TELSTAR
- 17 MERCURY FRIENDSHIP 7
- 18 MARINER 2
- 19 LOCKHEED SR-71 BLACKBIRD
- 20 GEMINI IV
- 21 IMAGINATION AND THE STAR TREK STARSHIP ENTERPRISE
- 22 LUNAR MODULE AND TOUCHABLE MOON ROCK
- 23 PIONEER 10/11
- 24 VIKING LANDER
- 25 SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY
- 26 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
- 27 SPACESHIPONE
- EPILOGUE
- GLOSSARY
- TIME LINE
- ENDNOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
