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Author : Ralph Shepard Damon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book "TWA" : Nearly Three Decades in the Air written by Ralph Shepard Damon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Shepard Damon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book TWA: Nearly Three Decades in the Air written by Ralph Shepard Damon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DAVID A. WEISS
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466969016
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Saga of the Tin Goose written by DAVID A. WEISS and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing almost everything we have in air travel todayfrom stewardesses to concrete runways in airports. All major airlines started with this plane. Byrd flew to the South Pole in one. FDR dreamed up the New Deal flying in another to the Chicago convention where he was nominated for president. In a Ford Tri-Motor, Lindbergh inaugurated the first transcontinental air service. And when speedier Boeings and Douglases pushed the Ford Tri-Motor off the major air routes, the Tin Goose kept flying commercially for another fifty years, barnstorming from city to city giving hundreds of thousands of Americans their first plane ride, dusting crops and fire-fighting in the Midwest, and hauling freight and passengers into remote Central American jungles and over the Andes. This revised and updated edition of The Saga of the Tin Goose relates the story of this remarkable plane from its 1920s beginnings to the present, and tells where you can see and fl y Ford Tri-Motors today. This is not only the story of Mr. Fords venerable Trimotor, it is a highly readable and complete history of commercial aviation and scheduled airlines -AVIATION Airplane buffs will find plenty of detail on the design and performance of the Trimotor and other famous planes This tightly organized, factual presentation, enhanced by old photographs, conveys a sense of the precariousness of early aviation -THE KIRKUS REVIEWS David Ansel Weiss has written lovingly and with a professional storyteller skill of the almost-legendary plane that changed fl edgling aviations fl y-by-night operations into the giant airline industry of today. -ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
Author : Daniel L. Rust
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186321
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Flying Across America written by Daniel L. Rust and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans who now endure the inconveniences of crowded airports, packed airplanes, and missed connections might not realize that flying was once an elegant, exhilarating adventure. In this colorful history, Daniel L. Rust traces the evolution of commercial air travel from the first transcontinental expeditions of the 1920s, through the luxurious airline environments of the 1960s, to the more hectic, fatiguing experiences of flying in the post-9/11 era. In the beginning, flying coast-to-coast was an exciting yet uncomfortable journey of nearly forty-eight hours that required numerous stops and overnight travel by train. With time and technical innovation, passengers became increasingly removed both physically and psychologically from the raw experience of flying. Faster planes, pressurized cabins, onboard amenities, and stronger safety precautions made flying more convenient and predictable—but also less evocative and sensational. Prior to the 1980s, Americans dressed for air travel in their formal best and enjoyed such luxurious onboard amenities as delicious meals and ample cabin space. What made air travel glamorous, however, also made it more expensive. With deregulation in 1978, cost reductions reduced flying to a more tedious and, after 9/11, more regimented experience. Rust’s narrative brims with firsthand accounts from such celebrities as Will Rogers and from ordinary Americans. Enlivened by more than 100 illustrations, including vintage brochures, posters, and photographs, Flying Across America reminds today’s airline passengers of what they have gained—and what they have lost—in the transcontinental flying experience.
Author : Roger W. Lotchin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071034
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Fortress California, 1910-1961 written by Roger W. Lotchin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortress California, now in paperback for the first time, links the growth of the U.S. military-industrial complex to civic leaders who competed for military bases and military contracts to ensure economic growth. Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, Roger W. Lotchin discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military. He provides instead a detailed and forceful argument that municipalities used federal resources to build urban empires and metropolitan-military complexes. These have increased the flow of federal dollars into the state, thereby shifting the focus of the military-industrial complex from warfare to welfare.
Author : Barry S. Martin
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608449297
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Aviator written by Barry S. Martin and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUT OR WAR-TORN SKIES, A LEGENDARY PILOT IS BORN Royal Leonard (1905-1962) flew in and out of aviation history - just on the edge of fame. His exploits mirror important developments in the Golden Age of American Aviation (1925-1941) and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). "If Royal's story were told in a novel," says long-time China pilot and author Felix Smith, "nobody would believe it all could have happened to one man." Royal learned his craft at the West Point of the Air in San Antonio, Texas. As a Western Air Express night mail pilot, he pioneered blind flying along the treacherous Rocky Mountains. As a TWA pilot, he introduced celestial navigation. An early Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) officer, he fought for mail plane safety at the cost of his job. He flew the Lockheed Orion in which Wiley Post and Will Rogers later crashed and attributed their fatal accident to a surprising cause. During the 1930s, a handful of elite pilots were racers. Jackie Cochran selected Royal as a copilot for the MacRobertson Race of the Century between England and Australia. Royal also competed in the Bendix Death Race in a Gee Bee Widow Maker. Before World War II, Royal worked for the Chinese warlord known as the Young Marshal who kidnapped Nationalist dictator Chiang Kai-shek and changed the course of Chinese history. Royal provided Communist political commissar Chou En-lai his first plane ride and later served as Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. During the war, Royal's roles were unique. Claire Chennault chose him to command the Flying Tigers Bomber Group. Royal briefed Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on Chinese landing fields for the Tokyo Raid. Royal, Chennault and Madame Chiang Kai-shek planned their own Tokyo bombing raid. Royal survived flying the Skyway to Hell over the Hump for China National Aviation Corporation. No wonder after a perilous flight war correspondent Martha Gellhorn described Royal as her "hero." Author's Biography The author has spent twenty years uncovering a rich trove of private documentary sources about the Forgotten Aviator. Martin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary and has an M.A. in history from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of California - Berkeley. He is a retired Administrative Law Judge and resides in Sacramento, California with his wife, Carolyn.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1952 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books
Author : David Ansel Weiss
Publisher : Cumberland Enterprises, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Saga of the Tin Goose written by David Ansel Weiss and published by Cumberland Enterprises, Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Ford Trimotor plane that changed American Aviation from small fly-by-night operations to the giant airline industry of today. In the Ford Trimotor, Charles Lindbergh inaugurated America's first transcontinental passenger service.
Author : Christine Negroni
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060932657
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Deadly Departure written by Christine Negroni and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 was the most expensive and extensive aviation-disaster probe in history: Millions of dollars were spent, thousands of experts were consulted, and hundreds of pieces of aircraft wreckage were painstakingly reconstructed in an effort to determine what happened. Yet, in this shocking exposé, journalist Christine Negroni reveals that the tragedy could have been prevented had government regulators and aircraft manufacturers acted on a known design flaw that had contributed to more than a dozen similar catastrophes in the three decades leading up to the crash of Flight 800. Writing with exceptional clarity, weaving together vivid personal stories and drawing from extensive research, Christine Negroni presents this compelling account of a disaster that didn't have to happen.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Administrative Oversight of the Investigation of TWA Flight 800 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Cashill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621575462
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book TWA 800 written by Jack Cashill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The MAC Flyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for include Annual air transport progress issue.
Author : Mike Nelson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146855638X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book We Are Going In written by Mike Nelson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author gives an account of the circumstances and people involved in a midair collision on June 30, 1956 over the Grand Canyon between two airliners, a United Air Lines Douglas DC-7 and a TWA Lockheed Constellation.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-09-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Aircraft Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
