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Author : Claudia M. Oakes
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book United States Women in Aviation, 1930-1939 written by Claudia M. Oakes and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah G. Douglas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813182697
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book American Women and Flight since 1940 written by Deborah G. Douglas and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Individual women’s stories enliven almost every page” of this comprehensive illustrated reference, now updated, from the National Air and Space Museum (Technology and Culture). Women run wind tunnel experiments, direct air traffic, and fabricate airplanes. American women have been involved with flight from the beginning. But until 1940, most people believed women could not fly, that Amelia Earhart was an exception to the rule. World War II changed everything. “It is on the record that women can fly as well as men,” stated General Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces. Then the question became “Should women fly?” Deborah G. Douglas tells the story of this ongoing debate and its impact on American history. From Jackie Cochran, whose perseverance led to the formation of the Women’s Army Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II to the more recent achievements of Jeannie Flynn, the Air Force’s first woman fighter pilot and Eileen Collins, NASA’s first woman shuttle commander, Douglas introduces a host of determined women who overcame prejudice and became military fliers, airline pilots, and air and space engineers. Not forgotten are stories of flight attendants, air traffic controllers, and mechanics. American Women and Flight since 1940 is a revised and expanded edition of a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum reference work. Long considered the single best reference work in the field, this new edition contains extensive new illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author : Janet R. Daly Bednarek
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442577
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Janet R. Daly Bednarek and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General aviation encompasses all the ways aircraft are used beyond commercial and military flying: private flights, barnstormers, cropdusters, and so on. Authors Janet and Michael Bednarek have taken on the formidable task of discussing the hundred-year history of this broad and diverse field by focusing on the most important figures and organizations in general aviation and the major producers of general aviation aircraft and engines. This history examines the many airplanes used in general aviation, from early Wright and Curtiss aircraft to the Piper Cub and the Lear Jet. The authors trace the careers of birdmen, birdwomen, barnstormers, and others who shaped general aviation—from Clyde Cessna and the Stinson family of San Antonio to Olive Ann Beech and Paul Poberezny of Milwaukee. They explain how the development of engines influenced the development of aircraft, from the E-107 that powered the 1929 Aeronca C-2, the first affordable personal aircraft, to the Continental A-40 that powered the Piper Cub, and the Pratt and Whitney PT-6 turboprop used on many aircraft after World War II. In addition, the authors chart the boom and bust cycle of general aviation manufacturers, the rising costs and increased regulations that have accompanied a decline in pilots, the creation of an influential general aviation lobby in Washington, and the growing popularity of “type” clubs, created to maintain aircraft whose average age is twenty-eight years. This book provides readers with a sense of the scope and richness of the history of general aviation in the United States. An epilogue examining the consequences of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, provides a cautionary note.
Author : Claudia M. Oakes
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book United States Women in Aviation, 1930-1939 written by Claudia M. Oakes and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book U.S. Government Books written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962558X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering a Century of Flight written by Roger D. Launius and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history during a twelve-second flight on a secluded North Carolina beach. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these essays chart the central role that aviation played in twentieth-century history and capture the spirit of innovation and adventure that has characterized the history of flight. The contributors, all leading aerospace historians, consider four broad themes relating to the development of flight technology: innovation and the technology of flight, civil aeronautics and government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American imagination. Through their attention to the political, economic, military, and cultural history of flight, the authors establish that the Wrights' invention--and all that followed in both air and space--was one of the most significant technologies of the twentieth century, fundamentally reshaping our world. Supported by the First Flight Centennial Commission The contributors are Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Tami Davis Biddle, Roger E. Bilstein, Hans-Joachim Braun, David T. Courtwright, Anne Collins Goodyear, Roger D. Launius, William M. Leary, David D. Lee, W. David Lewis, John H. Morrow, Dominick A. Pisano, and A. Timothy Warnock.
Author : Jonathan Coopersmith
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563476105
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Taking Off written by Jonathan Coopersmith and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2003 marks the centennial of manned flight, a major anniversary for an Earth-shattering accomplishment. The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.
Author : Fred Erisman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539790
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book In Their Own Words written by Fred Erisman and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Aviation (1925–1940). Earhart and her contemporaries, however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots whose activities reached back to the earliest days of aviation. These women, too, wrote about aviation, speaking out for new and progressive technology and its potential for the advancement of the status of women. With those of their more recent counterparts, their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the maturation of the airplane, aviation, and women’s growing desire for equality in American society. In Their Own Words takes up the writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the growth of American aviation and the changing role of women. Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), Ruth Law (1887–1970), and the sisters Katherine and Marjorie Stinson (1893–1977; 1896–1975) came to prominence in the years between the Wright brothers and World War I. Earhart (1897–1937), Louise Thaden (1905–1979), and Ruth Nichols (1901–1960) were the voices of women in aviation during the Golden Age of Aviation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), the only one of the eight who legitimately can be called an artist, bridges the time from her husband’s 1927 flight through the World War II years and the coming of the Space Age. Each of them confronts issues relating to the developing technology and possibilities of aviation. Each speaks to the importance of assimilating aviation into daily life. Each details the part that women might—and should—play in advancing aviation. Each talks about how aviation may enhance women’s participation in contemporary American society, making their works significant documents in the history of American culture.
Author : Jennifer Bean Bower
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609496957
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry written by Jennifer Bean Bower and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's solo endurance flight record. She became the first federally licensed female pilot from North Carolina that same year. She was a national celebrity, and her job in a New York restaurant secured her the nickname the "Flying Cashier." Gentry became personal friends with fellow pioneers of aviation Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and General James "Jimmy" Doolittle. After a near-fatal crash, Gentry focused her efforts on championing aviation for women and preserving its early history. Author Jennifer Bean Bower reveals the life of one of the great women in Tar Heel State history.
Author : Julie Wosk
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801873133
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Women and the Machine written by Julie Wosk and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines.
Author : Wayne H. Heiser, 8th
Publisher : Wayne Heiser
ISBN 13 : 0977826708
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (778 download)
Download or read book U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation, Volume I, 1916-1942 Chronology written by Wayne H. Heiser, 8th and published by Wayne Heiser. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronological account of the establishment of Naval Reserve Aviation and its growth and development before World War II. It is a comprehensive history of Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation - a documentation of the significant events in that history, together with many which would fall under the category of trivia. It is an attempt to illustrate what the Naval Aviation Reserve was all about, and to capture some of the flavor of the earlier days of aviation. The book, Volume I of a series on Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation, may stir the memories of some of those people directly involved in these activities during the period covered. It should also prove interesting to others who might have an interest in the Naval Air Reserve and/or in early aviation.
Author : Margaret A. Weitekamp
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879944
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Right Stuff, Wrong Sex written by Margaret A. Weitekamp and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review
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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349629677
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Queering the Moderns written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term "queer" to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. "Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can't be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on cross-gender and cross-racial identifications are discussed within their specific cultural contexts so that female aviators (Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham), "lesbian" auto/biographers (Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) and male auto-ethnographers (James Weldon Johnson and Earl Lind - Ralph Werther) begin to "queer" the traditional spaces of modernism.
Author : Gene Nora Jessen
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402229720
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Powder Puff Derby of 1929 written by Gene Nora Jessen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable true story of the 1929 air race that legitimized female pilots.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 926 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Ganson
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292754094
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Texas Takes Wing written by Barbara Ganson and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of aviation in Texas that “brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of flight technology as a harbinger of social change” (Technology and Culture). In this book, pilot and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of the aviation industry in the Lone Star 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 US 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. Includes photos
