Flight in America - Softcover

Bilstein, Professor Roger E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801835615 ISBN 13: 9780801835612

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Explains technological advances in aeronautics, assesses the links between American culture and flight technology, and chronicles the history of American flight--commercial, military, and private

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0801835615
• ISBN 13: 9780801835612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376