Flight in America, revised edition: From the Wrights to the Astronauts - Softcover

Bilstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801848288 ISBN 13: 9780801848285

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

When first published in 1984, Roger Bilstein's Flight in America was widely hailed as the foremost history of what is arguably the most remarkable achievement of the twentieth century--human flight. Now, in this newly revised and expanded edition, Bilstein continues his comprehensive history to the closing decade of the present century and offers a glimpse of developments in the next.

"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 buffsand professionals alike."--Journal of American History.

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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

Synopsis:

When first published in 1984, Roger Bilstein's "Flight in America" was hailed as the foremost history of what is arguably the most remarkable achievement of the 20th century - human flight. Now, 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 aeroplane of virtually every aspect of American life, tracing aviation from the earliest discoveries of the airplane's possibilties 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801848288
• ISBN 13: 9780801848285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400