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Author : Terrence Maxwell Dean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book The History of McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1917-1927 written by Terrence Maxwell Dean and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Ann Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913428849
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (288 download)
Download or read book McCook Field, 1917-1927 written by Mary Ann Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McCook Field 1917-1927 tells the story of how McCook Field became the force behind America's Golden Age of Flight in the post-World War I era"--P. 11.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate The McCook Field Years (1917-1927). written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report details the early history of flight, from the invention of ballooning to the Wright B Flyer and beyond. It chronicles the progression of the United States Air Corps and its significance before, during, and after World War I. Most importantly, the book focuses on the formation of McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio and the critical role it played in the advancement of aeronautics in the United States.
Author : Air Force Air Force Research Laboratory
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511636575
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate written by Air Force Air Force Research Laboratory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report details the early history of flight, from the invention of ballooning to the Wright B Flyer and beyond. It chronicles the progression of the United Sates Air Corps and its significance before, during, and after World War I. Most importantly, the book focuses on the formation of McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio and the critical role it played in the advancement of aeronautics in the United States.
Author : Lois E. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From Huffman Prairie to the Moon written by Lois E. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth M. Keisel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655421
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Wright Field written by Kenneth M. Keisel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wright Field features scores of photographs that show the airfield from its founding in 1927 through World War II, the Cold War, and beyond. From its founding in 1927 until the establishment of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948, Wright Field played a vital role keeping the Army Air Force positioned as the world's leader in aircraft design and development. The Second World War catapulted it into the forefront of America's war effort, as virtually every new aircraft produced for the Army Air Force was developed and tested in Dayton. Wright Field's testing program also had the fascinating task of studying captured enemy aircraft, including some powered by jet engines, which engineers at the installation were also developing. Images of Aviation: Wright Field features scores of amazing photographs that tell the story of the airfield from its founding in 1927 through World War II, the Cold War, and beyond. Readers will also see the impact the base has played in the local community by providing thousands of jobs, as well as some of the greatest air shows ever held in the United States. Finally, a collection of crash photographs reveals the often tragic consequences that inevitably come with the testing of advanced experimental aircraft.
Author : Kenneth M. Keisel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738593893
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Dayton Aviation written by Kenneth M. Keisel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hallowed skies blanket Dayton, Ohio, a city once known as the "Cradle of Aviation"--and with good reason. It was in Dayton that two brothers became the unlikely creators of the world's first airplane, but that is just the start of the story. Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field examines Dayton's civil and military aviation history from its start with the Wright Brothers to the founding of Wright and Patterson Fields in the 1930s, a period that saw the construction of the world's first airport, the Huffman Flying Prairie. Dayton was home to the first airplane factory and, later, the world's largest aircraft factory. The city introduced the world to crop dusting, landing lights, free-fall parachutes, pressurized cabins, night aerial photography, the first private-cabin plane, and the first strategic bomber. In downtown Dayton, office workers could look out windows and watch history unfold as pilots broke one world record after another in the skies over the city. Dayton was, and still is, the airplane capital of the world. These images, captured by the founding fathers of aviation, show that from 1904 through the 1930s, if it was happening in the air, it was happening in Dayton.
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Publisher : Department of the Air Force
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose written by and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 2002 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal change. In this sense, "Understanding Civil War: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict" argues that the nature of civil war is not fundamentally changing in nature. The book includes a thorough consideration of patterns and types of intrastate conflict and debates relating to the causes, impact, and changing nature of war. A key focus is on the political and social driving forces of such conflict and its societal meanings, significance and consequences. The author also explores methodological and epistemological challenges related to studying and understanding intrastate war. A range of questions and debates are addressed. What is the current knowledge regarding the causes and nature of armed intrastate conflict? Is it possible to produce general, cross-national theories on civil war which have broad explanatory relevance? Is the concept of civil wars empirically meaningful in an era of globalization and transnational war? Has intrastate conflict fundamentally changed in nature? Are there historical patterns in different types of intrastate conflict? What are the most interesting methodological trends and debates in the study of armed intrastate conflict? How are narratives about the causes and nature of civil wars constructed around ideas such as ethnic conflict, separatist conflict and resource conflict? This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, intrastate conflict, security studies and IR in general.
Author : Diana Good Cornelisse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Remarkable Journey written by Diana Good Cornelisse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Department of the Air Force
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Home Field Advantage written by and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how Dayton, Ohio and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base became America's "Cradle of Aviation".
Author : Peter L. Jakab
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345491
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright written by Peter L. Jakab and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. Because Wilbur's sudden death in 1912 ended any hope that the Wrights would produce a book of their own, the articles collected in this volume are their only published words.
Author : Jerry Koszyk
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764363528
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (635 download)
Download or read book The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field written by Jerry Koszyk and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpublished, candid interviews with crucial figures in early American aviation, including Jimmy Doolittle, Alexander Seversky, George Kenney, Reuben Fleet, and many more
Author : Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107142865
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Reinventing the Propeller written by Jeremy R. Kinney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : P. Galison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940114379X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century written by P. Galison and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the 19th century for locomotive smokestacks. Yet all technologies are processes by which humans seek to control their physical environment and bend nature to their purposes. All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century phenomenon. But they approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives. They ask disparate questions. And they work from distinct agendas. Collectively they help to explain what is different about aviation - how it differs from other technologies and how flight itself has varied from one time and place to another. The importance of this topic is manifest. Flight is one of the defining technologies of the twentieth century. Jay David Bolter argues in Turing's Man that certain technologies in certain ages have had the power not only to transform society but also to shape the way in which people understand their relationship with the physical world. "A defining technology," says Bolter, "resembles a magnifying glass, which collects and focuses seemingly disparate ideas in a culture into one bright, sometimes piercing ray." 2 Flight has done that for the twentieth century.
Author : United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The MAC Flyer written by United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Pooling of Patents written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Capt Arthur H. Wagner Uscg (Ret)
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466906022
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Birth of a Legend written by Capt Arthur H. Wagner Uscg (Ret) and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition for Army acquisition funding in the betrween wars depression years was fierce. The opposing camps of Fighter Supremacy versus Strategic Bombing played out at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS), at GHQ, before Congress and in the media. Military exercises pitted the Navy and the Air Corps in operations with real cloak and dagger background gambits, each trying to gain the upper hand. When leaders such as Benjamin Foulois, Billy Mitchell, and Frank Andrews eventually were able to foster a bomber competition to replace the Martin B-10, Boeing's four-engined Model 299 was a clear winner; but then it crashed at Dayton, and the Army opted for the Douglas B-18. Somehow, Frank Andrews had enough faith in his convictions and managed to have 13 Y1B-17s produced and sent to the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, VA. There Robert Olds and his three squadrons enthralled the country with long range goodwill flights, transcontinental speed runs with an obscure 1st Lt Curtis leMay navigating the way, and a thrilling movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Fortunately for the trials of WWII, these daring young men of the Army Air Corps put their careers on the line, and made the B-17 one of the iconic weapons of that conflict. This is the untold story of the aircraft development and the men who made it happen.
