Reconsidering a century of flight / edited by Roger D. Launius and Janet R. Daly Bednarek.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xii, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0807828157 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807854883 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- TL 521 .R335 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-290) and index.
Whither a Century of Flight / Roger D. Launius, Janet R. Daly Bednarek -- The Technology of Flight: Three Sides of a Coin / Roger E. Bilstein -- The Wright Brothers, Government Support for Aeronautical Research, and the Evolution of Flight / Roger D. Launius -- Innovation in Flight from the Perspective of Europe / Hans-Joachim Braun -- Herbert Hoover and Commercial Aviation Policy, 1921--1933 / David D. Lee -- Edward V. Rickenbacker's Reaction to Civil Aviation Policy in the 1930s: A Hidden Dimension / W. David Lewis --
A Perennial Challenge to Aviation Safety: Battling the Menace of Ice / William M. Leary -- The Wright Brothers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1905--1915 / A. Timothy Warnock -- Brave Men Flying: The Wright Brothers and Military Aviation in World War I / John H. Morrow -- Strategic Air Warfare: An Analysis / Tami Davis Biddle -- The Routine Stuff: How Flying Became a Form of Mass Transportation / David T. Courtwright -- The Effect of Flight on Art in the Twentieth Century / Anne Collins Goodyear -- The Spirit of St. Louis - Fact and Symbol: Misinterpreting a Historic Cultural Artifact / Dominick A. Pisano.
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