Flight in America

From the Wrights to the Astronauts
third Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6685-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilstein, Roger E

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Luftverkehr
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bilstein, Roger E
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.

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.