Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts / Edition 3

by Roger E. Bilstein

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

The standard history of the American aerospace enterprise—with good reason.
—Tom D. Crouch, Museums New York

Richly illustrated and splendidly written, Flight in America charts the manifold ways in which the airplane has touched virtually every feature of American enterprise, history, and culture—leisure and business travel, commercial transportation, national defense, and imaginative literature. More than 125 lively photographs document the beauty of flying machines and the daring of the men and women who invented, built, and flew them.Praise for previous editions:"The most comprehensive survey of the history of American aeronautics and space flight yet published.
—Technology and Culture

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 buffs and professionals alike.
—Journal of American History

By far the best book on man and air travel yet written.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

For those who won't soon be able to visit the National Air and Space Museum, perhaps the next best thing would be to read Flight in America.
—Chronicle of Higher Education

From the Publisher

For those who won't soon be able to visit the National Air and Space Museum, perhaps the next best thing would be to read Flight in America.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Richly illustrated and splendidly written, Flight in America charts the manifold ways in which the airplane has touched virtually every feature of American enterprise, history, and culture—leisure and business travel, commercial transportation, national defense, and imaginative literature. More than 125 lively photographs document the beauty of flying machines and the daring of the men and women who invented, built, and flew them.Praise for previous editions:"The most comprehensive survey of the history of American aeronautics and space flight yet published.

Technology and Culture

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 buffs and professionals alike.

Journal of American History

The standard history of the American aerospace enterprise—with good reason.

Museums New York - Tom D. Crouch

By far the best book on man and air travel yet written.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

The standard history of the American aerospace enterprise—with good reason.

— Tom D. Crouch

Museums New York