The American Aviation Experience

Author : Tim Brady
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0809323710

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The American Aviation Experience by Tim Brady Pdf

This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. Contributors also cover balloons and dirigibles, African American pioneers in aviation, and women in aviation. These essayists--leading scholars in the field--present the history of aviation mainly from an American perspective. The American Aviation Experience includes 335 black-and-white photographs, two maps, and an appendix, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Flight.."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015019913782

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American Aviation by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32437121697771

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Winged Crusade by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013185082

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American Aviation Daily by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik M. Conway
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0801884497

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Blind Landings by Erik M. Conway Pdf

When darkness falls, storms rage, fog settles, or lights fail, pilots are forced to make "instrument landings," relying on technology and training to guide them through typically the most dangerous part of any flight. In this original study, Erik M. Conway recounts one of the most important stories in aviation history: the evolution of aircraft landing aids that make landing safe and routine in almost all weather conditions. Discussing technologies such as the Loth leader-cable system, the American National Bureau of Standards system, and, its descendants, the Instrument Landing System, the MIT-Army-Sperry Gyroscope microwave blind landing system, and the MIT Radiation Lab's radar-based Ground Controlled Approach system, Conway interweaves technological change, training innovation, and pilots' experiences to examine the evolution of blind landing technologies. He shows how systems originally intended to produce routine, all-weather blind landings gradually developed into routine instrument-guided approaches. Even so, after two decades of development and experience, pilots still did not want to place the most critical phase of flight, the landing, entirely in technology's invisible hand. By the end of World War II, the very concept of landing blind therefore had disappeared from the trade literature, a victim of human limitations.

Author : Fred Erisman
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0875653308

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Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight by Fred Erisman Pdf

Setting the stage : technology and the series book -- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915 -- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935 -- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929 -- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939 -- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939 -- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945 -- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.

Author : Quentin Reynolds
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981-02-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780394847009

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The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds Pdf

Young Orville and Wilbur Wright loved building things. From the fastest sled in town to the highest-flying kite, the Wright brothers’ creations were always a step ahead of everyone else’s. They grew up learning all about mechanics from fixing bicycles and studied math and physics. On December 17, 1903, Orville took off in the world’s first flying machine! The Wright airplane is one of the most amazing–and life-changing–

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019913857

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American Aviation News Issue by Anonim Pdf

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Author : United States. National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Automation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02881784E

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Technology and the American Economy by United States. National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress Pdf

Author : Dominick Pisano
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0472068334

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The Airplane in American Culture by Dominick Pisano Pdf

A fascinating account of America's relationship with the airplane

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112087196041

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Special Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albert D. Helfrick
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1585444138

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Electronics In The Evolution Of Flight by Albert D. Helfrick Pdf

Helfrick traces the paired history of modern aviation and electronics from its earliest years to the industrial force it is today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008483872

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American Aviation by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Sean Seyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421440545

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Sovereign Skies by Sean Seyer Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015024343314

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Airlift by Anonim Pdf

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