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Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1585444197
A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015006087582
Beretter om trafikflyvningens spæde start og de første flyselskaber samt etableringen af længere luftruter.
Author : Denice Turner
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789042032972
Writing the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine; they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. The most popular flight autobiographies in the United States posited a hero who rose from the mundane to the miraculous; and yet the most startling autobiographies point out the social factors that limited or forbade vertical movement—both literally and figuratively. A survey of pilot writing, the book will appeal to flight enthusiasts and people interested in American autobiography and culture. But it will also appeal strongly to readers interested in the poetics and politics of place.
Author : Lori Benton
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307731487
A Christy award-winning novel about a woman caught between two worlds, and the lengths she goes to find where she belongs Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuries, the two quickly find much has changed during her twelve-year absence: her childhood home is in disrepair, her missing parents are rumored to be Tories, and the young Richard Waring she once admired is now grown into a man twisted by the horrors of war and claiming ownership of the Obenchain land. When her Mohawk brother arrives and questions her place in the white world, the cultural divide blurs Willa’s vision. Can she follow Tames-His-Horse back to the People now that she is no longer Burning Sky? And what about Neil MacGregor, the kind and loyal botanist who does not fit into in her plan for a solitary life, yet is now helping her revive her farm? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, strong feelings against “savages” abound in the nearby village of Shiloh, leaving Willa’s safety unsure. As tensions rise, challenging her shielded heart, the woman called Burning Sky must find a new courage--the courage to again risk embracing the blessings the Almighty wants to bestow. Is she brave enough to love again?
Author : TONY. EATON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916966306
Author : Bruce Siberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1069329867
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1552977757
A young reader's guide to space exploration. Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight: from the first unmanned missions, to the early manned flights and finally to the Apollo moon missions. Space program successes and failures are covered including the disasters that befell Apollo 1 and the shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The book explains how deep space is explored today with such sophisticated telescopes and space probes as: Hubble Space Telescope Manned space stations Unmanned probes such as Voyager and Pioneer Space stations such as Mir and Apollo-Soyuz. The proposed International Space Station is described as well as the unique challenges people will encounter in space such as living in a zero-gravity environment. The future of space exploration is discussed including the possibility of alien life on other solar systems. Proposed projects such as an automated lunar mining operation and a scientific base on Mars are also covered. Readers will enjoy Final Frontier for its colorful, abundant illustrations and easy-to-follow text.
Author : Sean Seyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421440545
A pathbreaking history of the regulatory foundations of America's twentieth-century aerial preeminence. Today, the federal government possesses unparalleled authority over the atmosphere of the United States. Yet when the Wright Brothers inaugurated the air age on December 17, 1903, the sky was an unregulated frontier. As increasing numbers of aircraft threatened public safety in subsequent decades and World War I accentuated national security concerns about aviation, the need for government intervention became increasingly apparent. But where did authority over the airplane reside within America's federalist system? And what should US policy look like for a device that could readily travel over physical barriers and political borders? In Sovereign Skies, Sean Seyer provides a radically new understanding of the origins of American aviation policy in the first decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the concept of mental models from cognitive science, regime theory from political science, and extensive archival sources, Seyer situates the development, spread, and institutionalization of a distinct American regulatory idea within its proper international context. He illustrates how a relatively small group of bureaucrats, military officers, industry leaders, and engineers drew upon previous regulatory schemes and international principles in their struggle to define government's relationship to the airplane. In so doing, he challenges the current domestic-centered narrative within the literature and delineates the central role of the airplane in the reinterpretation of federal power under the commerce clause. By placing the origins of aviation policy within a broader transnational context, Sovereign Skies highlights the influence of global regimes on US policy and demonstrates the need for continued engagement in world affairs. Filling a major gap in the historiography of aviation, it will be of interest to readers of aviation, diplomatic, and legal history, as well as regulatory policy and American political development.
Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317455967
Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched this book in the late 1930s, visiting and speaking with Cheyenne experts in Norman, Oklahoma. This was the first of Fast's many books to gain a wide popular audience; it was eventually made by John Ford into the classic film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
Author : Robert Vescio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912858185
Author : K. G. Williams
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781483222875
The New Frontier: Man's Survival in the Sky outlines the cause, effects and possible cures for problems that involve flying. This book discusses the pressure of the atmosphere; incidence, cause, and prevention of decompression sickness; and altitude as a cause of anoxia. The failure of the pressure cabin, principles of protection from climatic stress, and conditioning of the aircraft cabin are also deliberated. This text likewise covers the measurement of the forces produced by flight, physiological mechanisms involved in positive “g effects, and health and hygiene in air travel. This publication is intended for individuals interested in how man adapts to strange, new, and exciting environments.
Author : Giancarlo Genta,Michael Rycroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521814030
What are our motivations for going into space? Where does our long-term space future lie? Why, and how, should we strive to reach, if not for the stars, at least for the Moon and Mars? This exciting book looks first at the progress that has already been made in our attempts to explore and expand beyond the Earth. Current and past space technologies and space stations are described, and the effects of the space environment on the human body are explained. A discussion of the merits of the robotic exploration of space is followed by a look at our exploration of the Moon and Mars. Final chapters touch on propulsion methods required for leaving our solar system, and ask which of the possibilities for future space travel is most likely to succeed. This thought provoking book will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of space exploration.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Geology
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030041197957
Author : Lori Copeland,Virginia Smith
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780736947534
An exciting new Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith weaves an entertaining and romantic tale for devoted fans and new readers. Kansas,1881—On a trip to visit relatives, Emma Switzer's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's prayers, but it looks as though God has something else in mind for this kind and gentle man. Plain and rugged—do the two mix? And what happens when a dedicated Amish woman and a stubborn trail boss prove to be each other's match?
Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : LCCN:gb65001614