Van Riper, A. Bowdoin.

Imagining flight : aviation and popular culture / A. Bowdoin Van Riper. - 1st ed. - College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, c2004. - xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Centennial of flight series ; no. 7 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagining the air age -- Pilots as national heroes -- Death from above -- The allure of air travel -- Crashes and other catastrophes -- Wings into space.

158544300X (cloth : alk. paper)

2003007848


Aeronautics--Popular works.
Aeronautics--History.

TL553 / .V37 2004