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Author : Deborah Gwen Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Airports written by Deborah Gwen Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466869119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Naked Airport written by Alastair Gordon and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ... Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, travel, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transportation: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace—its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.
Author : Deborah Gwen Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780591204681
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Airports written by Deborah Gwen Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615307257
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Complete History of Aviation written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have long dreamt of communing with the skies and acquiring the ability to fly. The first experiments with balloon flight through the development of the Concorde and everything in between, aviation has transformed the way humans travel, especially over vast distances. This penetrating volume examines the various technologies and aircraft that have enabled human flight and includes a comprehensive section on the design and operation of airports.
Author : Janet R. Bednarek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319311956
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age written by Janet R. Bednarek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and boosters have made them central to often expansive economic development dreams, including the construction of architecturally significant buildings. However, other metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as the place where Americans most fully experience the security regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.
Author : James J. Horgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Flight written by James J. Horgan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orville Wright
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486256627
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)
Download or read book How We Invented the Airplane written by Orville Wright and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with rare photographs and featuring accounts written by the Wright Brothers themselves, this fascinating firsthand history covers the brothers' early experiments, their construction of planes and motors, the first test flights, life after Kitty Hawk, and much more. Introduction and commentary by Fred C. Kelly. 76 black-and-white photographs.
Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Author : Michael Branigan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234000
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book A History of Chicago's O'Hare Airport written by Michael Branigan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delves into O’Hare’s past and present, based on Branigan’s extensive research and his interviews with aviation professionals and enthusiasts” (Chicago Tribune). In 1942, a stretch of Illinois prairie that had served as a battleground and a railroad depot became the site of a major manufacturing plant, producing Douglas C-54 Skymasters for World War II. Less than twenty years later, that plot of land boasted the biggest and busiest airport in the world. Many of the millions who have since passed through it have likely only regarded it as a place between cities. But for people like Michael Branigan, who has spent years on its tarmac, they know that O’Hare is a city unto itself, with a fascinating history of gangsters, heroes, mayors, presidents, and pilots. Includes photos! “This book reads like no other in the aviation industry from the historical context. Mike is a prolific writer with a knack for telling a story in a way that people can easily relate and understand.” —TribLocal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Legislative History of the Federal Airport Act: Public Law 377, Chapter 251, 79th Congress, 2nd Session: House action written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Camille Allaz
Publisher : Google Consultant
ISBN 13 : 0954889606
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)
Download or read book History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century written by Camille Allaz and published by Google Consultant. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was first published in French by the Institut du Transport Aerien in 1998 and received very favourable reviews. Through the publication of the English language edition, this remarkable work is now accessible to many more readers around the world. In addition, the author has expanded the book with new sections and he has extensively updated it to bring the story of air cargo into the twenty first century, concluding with a look into the future. The author, Camille Allaz, served as Senior Vice President Cargo at Air France for 10 years which gave him an insider's close-up view of his subject, a privilege not enjoyed by many historians. There is no aspect of mail or cargo transport by air that has not been thoroughly researched and documented by Allaz, from the first brief transport of animals by balloon in France in 1783 to the vast global networks of the integrated express carriers in the 21st century. As a true scholar, he fits his narrative into the larger framework of political, military, economic and aviation history. This book should stand for years as the definitive work on the history of air cargo and airmail, and will be of immense value to the academic community, to the air cargo industry, the postal services, and to the general public.
Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Planning and Design Guidelines for Airport Terminal Facilities written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marge Bitetti
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238537
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Aviation History of Greater Riverside written by Marge Bitetti and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since aircraft changed the scope of the First World War, flight became both a passion and business in Riverside. Early barnstormers needed places to park, refuel and service their aircraft, so airports started popping up. Alessandro Field became March Field in 1918. By World War II, seventy-five thousand troops were deployed at March. Today's March Joint Air Reserve Base has been a vital wartime training and relay installation and a sentinel of peacetime. In 1925, Roman Warren, known as the "Cowboy Aviator," established Riverside Airport, which later became Flabob Airport. Take to the air with authors Marge and Tony Bitetti as they trace Greater Riverside's history of flight--from Banning, Corona and Riverside Municipal Airports to Perris Airport, Skylark Field and others.
Author : Penny Rafferty Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781699237656
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)
Download or read book America's Amazing Airports written by Penny Rafferty Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Amazing Airports captures the magic and history of our airports. Archival and contemporary photographs reveal airports outside and inside. An easy read for all ages.
Author : Nicholas Keller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439660743
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Yeager Airport and Charleston Aviation written by Nicholas Keller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing history of aviation in Charleston, West Virginia, deserves to fly out of anonymity. Wertz Field opened in Institute in 1930, allowing for the introduction of the first commercial passenger service in 1933. In 1942, the construction of a rubber plant next to the field blocked flight approaches, resulting in its closure. Recognizing the urgent need for air service to the community, industrious West Virginians literally moved mountains to build Kanawha Airport on flat land created by leveling three mountains north of the state's capital, Charleston. Opening in November 1947, Kanawha Airport offered the community convenient air service and became home to the West Virginia Air National Guard. This book covers the history of aviation in the Charleston area, from the first airplane flight in 1912 to the current Yeager Airport, which links the region to the world economy.
Author : Facundo Conforti
Publisher : Biblioteca Aeronáutica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The history of the aviation written by Facundo Conforti and published by Biblioteca Aeronáutica . This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying has been man's longing since its inception when he contemplated the flying of birds looking up at the sky. Millennia passed until he finally decided to dare to stop contemplating the birds and start his passion and primitive instinct of conqueror, but this time the terrain to conquer would be much more difficult, the sky. The success that embraced pioneers such as the Wright brothers, unleashed a new and exciting activity that led to a succession of inexhaustible experiments with a single purpose, to conquer flight. Big names have been imprinted in the history of world aviation. Simple people who shared the same vision as that primitive man who contemplated the flight of birds, mastering the art of flying. The development of aviation during the last century has been a fundamental pillar for the development of civilization, not only as a means of transport, but also as a tool for production, connection and liaison between the different cultures that today are mixed throughout the world. We will know the stories of the most outstanding personalities and companies in the aeronautical world such as the history of Cessna, Piper, Boeing, Airbus and the fathers of aviation, the Wright brothers.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309056764
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Taking Flight written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-03-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercial aviation industry is a major part of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and a key contributor to the nation's economy. The industry is facing the effects of a reduced role by the military as a source of high-quality trained personnel, particularly pilots and mechanics. At the same time, it is facing the challenges of a changing American workforce. This book is a study of the civilian training and education programs needed to satisfy the work-force requirements of the commercial aviation industry in the year 2000 and beyond, with particular emphasis on issues related to access to aviation careers by women and minorities.
