To Fill The Skies With Pilots

Author : PISANO DOMINICK A
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560989189

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Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Using the facilities of colleges, universities, and commercial flying schools, the CPTP was designed to provide a pool of civilian pilots for military service in the event of war. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. Although the program did train tens of thousands of pilots who later flew during the war (mostly in noncombat missions), military leaders faulted the project for not being more in line with specific recruitment and training needs. After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. By charting the history of the CPTP, Pisano sheds new light on the politics of aviation during these pivotal years as well as on civil-military relations and New Deal policy making.

Author : Dominick A. Pisano
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935623533

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To Fill the Skies with Pilots by Dominick A. Pisano Pdf

Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Using the facilities of colleges, universities, and commercial flying schools, the CPTP was designed to provide a pool of civilian pilots for military service in the event of war. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. Although the program did train tens of thousands of pilots who later flew during the war (mostly in noncombat missions), military leaders faulted the project for not being more in line with specific recruitment and training needs. After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. By charting the history of the CPTP, Pisano sheds new light on the politics of aviation during these pivotal years as well as on civil-military relations and New Deal policy making.

Author : Amy L. Fraher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801470486

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The Next Crash by Amy L. Fraher Pdf

If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims that this is the "Golden Age of Safety," and other aviation researchers assure us the chance of dying in an airline accident is infinitesimal, The Next Crash reports that 70 percent of commercial pilots believe a major airline accident will happen soon. Who should we believe? As one captain explained, "Everybody wants their $99 ticket," but "you don't get [Captain] Sully for ninety-nine bucks." Drawing parallels between the 2008 financial industry implosion and the post-9/11 airline industry, The Next Crash explains how aviation industry risk management processes have not kept pace with a rapidly changing environment. To stay safe the system increasingly relies on the experience and professionalism of airline employees who are already stressed, fatigued, and working more while earning less. As one copilot reported, employees are so distracted "it's almost a miracle that there wasn't bent metal and dead people" at his airline. Although opinions like this are pervasive, for reasons discussed in this book, employees' issues do not concern the right people—namely airline executives, aviation industry regulators, politicians, watchdog groups, or even the flying public—in the right way often enough. In contrast to popular notions that airliner accidents are a thing of the past, Fraher makes clear America is entering a period of unprecedented aviation risk.

Author : Niloofar Rahmani,Adam Sikes
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641603379

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Open Skies by Niloofar Rahmani,Adam Sikes Pdf

"As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society." —Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for the Washington Post The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan's first female air force pilot—as seen on Anderson Cooper and ABC News In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Rahmani entered Afghanistan's military academy. Rahmani had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a pilot. She performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan's first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Rahmani with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy's Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities

Author : Lois K. Merry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786457687

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Women Military Pilots of World War II by Lois K. Merry Pdf

More than 2000 women in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union flew military airplanes in organized units during World War II, yet their stories are largely unknown. These pilots ferried aircraft, flew targets for ground artillery practice, tested airplanes and equipment, and many of them flew in combat. The women pilots proved that they could manage bombers and fighters as well as their male counterparts, and several later remarked that “the airplanes didn’t care who flew them.” Topics covered include the training of female pilots, how female flight units were developed and structured, the hazards of conflict, and how these women reintegrated into civilian life following the war.

Author : Ralph Connor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387025231

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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Sarah Parry Myers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469675046

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Earning Their Wings by Sarah Parry Myers Pdf

Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot's license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied over three decades of Army Air Force benefits as well as the honor and respect given to male and female World War II veterans of other branches. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists. Myers shows us how those in the WASP program bonded through their training, living together in barracks, sharing the dangers of risky flights, and struggling to be recognized as military personnel, and the friendships they forged lasted well after the Army Air Force dissolved the program. Despite the WASP program's short duration, its fliers formed activist networks and spent the next thirty years lobbying for recognition as veterans. Their efforts were finally recognized when President Jimmy Carter signed a bill into law granting WASP participants retroactive veteran status, entitling them to military benefits and burials.

Author : Barbara Ganson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292754089

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Texas Takes Wing by Barbara Ganson Pdf

Tracing the hundred-year history of aviation in Texas, aviator and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of this industry in the state. Weaving stories and profiles of aviators, designers, manufacturers, and those in related services, Texas Takes Wing covers the major trends that propelled Texas to the forefront of the field. Covering institutions from San Antonio’s Randolph Air Force Base (the West Point of this branch of service) to Brownsville’s airport with its Pan American Airlines instrument flight school (which served as an international gateway to Latin America as early as the 1920s) to Houston’s Johnson Space Center, home of Mission Control for the U.S. space program, the book provides an exhilarating timeline and engaging history of dozens of unsung pioneers as well as their more widely celebrated peers. Drawn from personal interviews as well as major archives and the collections of several commercial airlines, including American, Southwest, Braniff, Pan American Airways, and Continental, this sweeping history captures the story of powered flight in Texas since 1910. With its generally favorable flying weather, flat terrain, and wide open spaces, Texas has more airports than any other state and is often considered one of America’s most aviation-friendly places. Texas Takes Wing also explores the men and women who made the region pivotal in military training, aircraft manufacturing during wartime, general aviation, and air servicing of the agricultural industry. The result is a soaring history that will delight aviators and passengers alike.

Author : Peter Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922615091

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Sky Pilot by Peter Davidson Pdf

This new edition of Sky Pilot is beautifully reformatted and republished, for a new reading audience. It is a comprehensive update of the 1st edition that was published in 1990 by the same author. Sky Pilots is timely. In an era when the importance of Chaplaincy is not fully understood in some quarters, the need for it is real and remains undiminished. These stories will showcase to the general reader that our Air Force Padres do so much more than conduct religious services. The author, Peter Davidson, in this well researched work, has captured much of the breadth of the amazing work the Chaplains of the Royal Australian Air Force give in the line of duty. It is a history of the work of God who calls them to care for all people at a time in the history of the world where, now probably more than ever, we might listen for a fresh Voice of the One who has been with us always, who is with us now, and who will continue with us as we step forward into an uncertain future.,

Author : Keith W. Hudson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449044039

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The Scrapping Sky Pilot by Keith W. Hudson Pdf

."The Scrapping Sky Pilot" chronicles the early life of the Rev. J.U. Robins, as he grew up in Port Rowan, a small village on Lake Erie in southern Ontario and as a young man, taught in Detroit. Then after hearing the "Call" of God headed West to British Columbia in the late 1800's to open Churches in Rossland, Golden and serve in Revelstock and Sandon British Columbia. Mission life was hard, dangerous and had its humourous times. Leaving his true love thousands of miles behind was one of the hardest things he did. The man, places and many of the events are true. The people he interacted with over these years are fictional The source for this novel comes from a tape recording, made on an old reel to reel tape that Robins made when he was well into his eighties. I praise God that he shared such rich stories with the family and now I take this opportunity to share them with you. May you loose yourself in a time long ago, in snow storms, lumber camps, fights and a love that lasted a life time - through the stories of a man who "fought" for God. Shalom Keith

Author : Michael E. Shay
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273246

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Sky Pilots by Michael E. Shay Pdf

This exploration of the noncombatants who earned the love and respect of the doughboys should appeal to armchair historians and scholars alike. Enhanced with photographs and an appendix summarizing the biographical information for each man, Sky Pilots is the first comprehensive look at the role of the Army chaplaincy at the divisional level. In August 1917, the U.S. 26th “Yankee” Division was formally activated for service in World War I. When the soldiers arrived in France, they were accompanied by more than three dozen volunteer chaplains. These clergymen experienced all the horrors of war, shared all the privations of the common soldier, and earned the love and affection of their “boys.” Two died, several were gassed or wounded, and many were decorated by France and the United States for their heroism, yet their stories have been lost to history. Through extensive research in published and archival sources, as well as firsthand materials obtained from the families of several chaplains, Michael E. Shay brings to life the story of these valiant men—a story of courage in the face of the horrors of war and of extreme devotion to the men they served. Just as important, Sky Pilots follows the chaplains home and on to their subsequent careers. For many, their war experiences shaped their ministries, particularly in the area of ecumenism and the Social Gospel. Others left the ministry altogether. To fill in the chaplains’ stories, Shay also examines the evolution of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, the education of the newly appointed chaplains, and the birth of the Yankee Division.

Author : Ambrose Newcomb
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547601449

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The Sky Pilot's Great Chase; Or, Jack Ralston's Dead Stick Landing by Ambrose Newcomb Pdf

The Sky Pilot's Great Chase; Or, Jack Ralston's Dead Stick Landing by Ambrose Newcomb is an exhilarating aviation adventure that follows Jack Ralston in a high-stakes chase across the skies. Newcomb's narrative beautifully captures the thrill of flight, the challenges faced by pilots, and the spirit of determination, making it a must-read for those seeking action-packed aerial escapades.

Author : Ralph Connor
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442927544

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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Ralph Connor Pdf

Author : Ralph Connor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734021183

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The Sky Pilot by Ralph Connor Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Sky Pilot by Ralph Connor

Author : Ralph Connor
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9781442927551

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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Ralph Connor Pdf