Living In The Age Of Airplanes

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Airplane Book

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Author : Cheryl Walsh Bellville
language : en
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Release Date : 1993-10

Airplane Book written by Cheryl Walsh Bellville and has been published by Carolrhoda Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10 with Airplanes categories.

Photo-essay on airplane engineering and aviation history.

Empire Of The Air

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Author : Jenifer Van Vleck
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01

Empire Of The Air written by Jenifer Van Vleck and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.

Jenifer Van Vleck's fascinating history reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and to sell the idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad. The airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States "to infinity," as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire--an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America's sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America's control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.

Chasing Planes

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Author : Gordon R. Page
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2015-12-03

Chasing Planes written by Gordon R. Page and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Starting at an early age, Gordon Page was obsessed with anything that had to do with airplanes. Compelled to always look up to see what was flying overhead, he quickly developed the ability to identify anything with wings. Since then, Gordon has spent his life chasing planes. Gordon chronicles stories from his life as a pilot, consultant, broker, and aircraft appraiser that detail real life experiences and valuable lessons learned. Gordon’s anecdotes reveal a variety of circumstances that include white-knuckle moments in the cockpit as he faced electrical failure in the skies over western Nebraska, survived an unforgettable helicopter tour of northern Israel as a passenger, and prepared to crash into a cornfield in a small plane in South Korea with a Top Gun obsessed pilot at the controls. Included are stories about how Gordon helped keep a giant bomber in the sky, assisted a film crew in recording a flight test of the G-II, and helped coordinate the sale of several Me 262s after a one-hour visit to Meacham, Texas, years earlier. Chasing Planes encapsulates the fascinating life journey of a pilot and airplane aficionado after he looked to the skies and found his true calling.

Airplane

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Author : Harold Faber
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2006

Airplane written by Harold Faber and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Follows the development of the airplane.

Airplanes

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Author : Nancy Robinson Masters
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2008-08-01

Airplanes written by Nancy Robinson Masters and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

The new Boeing Superliner looks much different than the plane the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Have you ever wondered how new planes are developed? This "Innovation in Transportation" book, Planes, takes a look at the people and creative ideas that have changed the way we think about flying.

Airplanes

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Author : Martha E. H. Rustad
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2014

Airplanes written by Martha E. H. Rustad and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Airplanes categories.

Hop in the cockpit and discover the amazing science of flight. Explore the many different types of airplanes and cool features that help these machines high in the sky. Book jacket.

The Invention Of The Airplane

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Author : Lucy Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2018-01-01

The Invention Of The Airplane written by Lucy Beevor and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Explore the history and development of the airplane and find out how an airplane works. Learn about the inventors who helped influence the invention of the airplane.

Jet Set

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Author : William Stadiem
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2014-06-03

Jet Set written by William Stadiem and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with History categories.

In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of ordinary Americans who longed to emulate the “jet set” lifestyle. Bestselling author and Vanity Fair contributor William Stadiem brings that Jet Age dream to life again in the first-ever book about the glamorous decade when Americans took to the skies in massive numbers as never before, with the rich and famous elbowing their way to the front of the line. Dishy anecdotes and finely rendered character sketches re-create the world of luxurious airplanes, exclusive destinations, and beautiful, wealthy trendsetters who turned transatlantic travel into an inalienable right. It was the age of Camelot and “Come Fly with Me,” Grace Kelly at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco, and Mary Quant miniskirts on the streets of Swinging London. Men still wore hats, stewardesses showed plenty of leg, and the beach at Saint-Tropez was just a seven-hour flight away. Jet Set reads like a who’s who of the fabulous and well connected, from the swashbuckling “skycoons” who launched the jet fleet to the playboys, moguls, and financiers who kept it flying. Among the bold-face names on the passenger manifest: Juan Trippe, the Yale-educated WASP with the Spanish-sounding name who parlayed his fraternity contacts into a tiny airmail route that became the world’s largest airline, Pan Am; couturier to the stars Oleg Cassini, the Kennedy administration’s “Secretary of Style,” and his social climbing brother Igor, who became the most powerful gossip columnist in America—then lost it all in one of the juiciest scandals of the century; Temple Fielding, the high-rolling high priest of travel guides, and his budget-conscious rival Arthur Frommer; Conrad Hilton, the New Mexico cowboy who built the most powerful luxury hotel chain on earth; and Mary Wells Lawrence, the queen bee of Madison Avenue whose suggestive ads for Braniff and other airlines brought sex appeal to the skies. Like a superfueled episode of Mad Men, Jet Set evokes a time long gone but still vibrant in American memory. This is a rollicking, sexy romp through the ring-a-ding glory years of air travel, when escape was the ultimate aphrodisiac and the smiles were as wide as the aisles. Praise for Jet Set “Aeronautics history, high times from the 1950s and ’60s, incredibly versatile name-dropping (from Mrs. John Jacob Astor to Christine Keeler of the Profumo scandal) and Sinatra’s ‘Come Fly With Me’ as a kind of theme song [all] connected to the glamorous days of air travel.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “What a book William Stadium has written. . . . The Kennedys, the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, and early financiers like Eddie Gilbert are dealt with in depth. . . . I lived intimately through it all in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and I am yet to find a mistake in author Stadiem’s amazing book. Order it now. All the players are here.”—Liz Smith, syndicated columnist “William Stadiem sexes up the glory days of aviation in Jet Set. Fly me!”—Vanity Fair “William Stadiem’s Jet Set takes you where no modern airliner can: to a time . . . when the means of travel was as exotic as the destination, and sometimes more so.”—Town & Country

The Living Age

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928

The Living Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with American periodicals categories.

Airplanes

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Author : Gary Reyes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Airplanes written by Gary Reyes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Aeronautics categories.