Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts - Softcover

Bilstein, Roger E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801866855 ISBN 13: 9780801866852

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"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 buffs and 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: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801866855
• ISBN 13: 9780801866852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416