Reconsidering a Century of Flight

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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.

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• Transportation
• History
• Kitty Hawk
• Aviation

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• Publié par: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798890878199
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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The publication of this book was supported by a generous grant from the First Flight Centennial Commission, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reconsidering a century of flight / edited by Roger D. Launius and Janet R. Daly Bednarek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alk. paper) — --- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Aeronautics—United States—History. I. Bednarek, Janet R. Daly (Janet Rose Daly), –  . .'—dc 

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For all those who follow the dreams of the Wright Brothers

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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Whither a Century of Flight  Roger D. Launius and Janet R. Daly Bednarek

Part : Innovation and the Technology of Flight

 The Technology of Flight: Three Sides of a Coin  Roger E. Bilstein

 The Wright Brothers, Government Support for Aeronautical Research, and the Evolution of Flight  Roger D. Launius

 Innovation in Flight from the Perspective of Europe  Hans-Joachim Braun

Part : Civil Aeronautics and Government Policy

 Herbert Hoover and Commercial Aviation Policy, –  David D. Lee

 Edward V. Rickenbacker’s Reaction to Civil Aviation Policy in the s: A Hidden Dimension  W. David Lewis

 A Perennial Challenge to Aviation Safety: Battling the Menace of Ice  William M. Leary

Part : Aerial Warfare

 The Wright Brothers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps, –  A. Timothy Warnock

 Brave Men Flying: The Wright Brothers and Military Aviation in World War I  John H. Morrow

 Strategic Air Warfare: An Analysis  Tami Davis Biddle

Part : Aviation in the American Imagination

 The Routine Stuff: How Flying Became a Form of Mass Transportation  David T. Courtwright

 The Effect of Flight on Art in the Twentieth Century  Anne Collins Goodyear

 TheSpirit of St. Louis—Fact and Symbol: Misinterpreting a Historic Cultural Artifact  Dominick A. Pisano

Selective Annotated Bibliography  Roger D. Launius and Janet R. Daly Bednarek Contributors  Index 

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British Aviation Comet prototypes and the first production machine in formation  F- firing an AGM-D Maverick air-to-ground missile  SR-  Douglas M- mail plane  Douglas DC-  Boeing   Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics meeting  Boeing   British Handley Page Heyford heavy bomber being ‘‘attacked’’ by a Hawker-Fury fighter  Postwar artist’s conception of the He-  Airbus airliners  Map showing stops on the original airmail route  Airmail pilot on route  between Seattle and Salt Lake City  Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown  Eddie Rickenbacker  Ice formations on the propeller and fuselage surfaces of a test unit  NASA OV-A Bronco 

Wreck of Wright C  Wright Model D at the Simms Station near Dayton, Ohio  Wright Model C at Pasay, Manila Bay  Air trials at Fort Myers, Virginia  Curtiss JNS- Jenny  B-  F-s and F- Fighting Falcons with KC-R Stratotanker  Northrop Grumman B- stealth bomber  Revenue passengers enplaned on U.S. scheduled airlines, –  TWA advertisement  Our Future Is in the Air, Pablo Picasso Picasso and Braque, Mark Tansey Wright Brothers’ first flight  Spirit of St. Louis, Alexander Calder Kitty Hawk, Richard Serra  The Aeromodeller, Panamarenko  Angel of History, Anselm Kiefer Flight of Icarus, Malcolm Morley  NY-PSpirit of St. Louis Fred Weick, Charles Lindbergh, and Tom Hamilton 