The Planes Of Wichita
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The Planes Of Wichita
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Author : Daryl Murphy
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-05
The Planes Of Wichita written by Daryl Murphy and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with History categories.
For more than eight decades, Wichita, Kansas has been recognized as the world's Air Capital, and there doesn't seem to be any other city that can make that claim. More than half of all the airplanes in the world were built in this prairie town of 360,000. Three elements drew early builders-weather, workers and wampum. Three hundred days of good flying weather can be guaranteed; a work force with experience learned on the farm on in the oil patch was on hand; and plenty of cash was available. Of the literally scores of airplane companies that called Wichita home over the years, today's survivors dominate the worldwide General Aviation market. The Planes of Wichita is a collection of thumbnail sketches that tell the stories that contributed to the legend.
Wichita
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Wichita written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with categories.
This book commemorates Wichita's role as Air Capital of the World. It takes readers from the early birds and barnstormers to the pioneers and entrepreneurs who established dozens of aircraft and associated factories in the 1920s. The story continues with the founding of Cessna, Beechcraft and Stearman (which became Boeing Wichita, then Spirit AeroSystems) and the massive build-up during World War II. Robust post-war growth got another boost when Bill Lear came to town and launched the business jet revolution with his Learjet. Today Wichita remains at the center of global aviation design and manufacturing with Textron Aviation, Spirit AeroSystems, Bombardier Learjet, Airbus and many dozens of smaller aviation manufacturers, suppliers and support organizations.What made Wichita the Air Capital? Flat prairies resembled one enormous landing field. Southwesterly winds added extra thrust to get and stay aloft. Farming and small manufacturing provided a legion of imaginative, industrious problem-solvers. Local boosters latched onto and promoted anything that flew. The city's central location provided an ideal refueling stop for coast-to-coast airmail routes. And oil generated a class of savvy, starry-eyed entrepreneurs who both used aircraft and had money to invest. Wichita brought it all together. The people. The promise. The planes.On Sept. 2, 1911, Albin Longren became the first person to build and fly an airplane in Kansas. His pusher-type biplane lifted off from a hayfield with a four-gallon gas tank and "flight instruments" that consisted of a pocket watch and barometer. The first plane built in Wichita rolled out of production in 1917, when Clyde Cessna assembled his Comet. Wichita's first commercial aircraft, the Swallow, came from the E.M. Laird Airplane Co. in 1920. By 1928, Wichita was general aviation's manufacturing grand central, producing 120 airplanes a week - a quarter of all U.S. output. A Chamber of Commerce Air Capital logo contest celebrated the city's 16 aircraft manufacturers, six aircraft engine factories, 11 airports and dozen flying schools. Wichita produces more airplanes - almost 300,000 to date - and offers more skilled aviation workers than any other city. Aviation forms Wichita's heritage and future.
Mayday Over Wichita
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Author : D. W. Carter
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08-20
Mayday Over Wichita written by D. W. Carter and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-20 with History categories.
The little-known story of a major catastrophe in a 1960s African American community: A “commendable, if unsettling, account.” —Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple Justice On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people—mostly African American children—were dead or injured, homes were completely destroyed and numerous families were splintered. As shocking as it may sound, the event was seemingly omitted from the historical record for nearly fifty years. Now, historian D. W. Carter examines the myths and realities of the crash while providing new insights about the horrific four-minute flight that forever changed the history of Kansas. Includes photographs
Wichita S Legacy Of Flight
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Author : Jay M. Price
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Wichita S Legacy Of Flight written by Jay M. Price and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Known as the "Air Capital of the World," Wichita, Kansas, has been continuously associated with aviation longer than any city in the world. The city's inventive and entrepreneurial spirit made an early mark on the aviation and aerospace industries. From the first hot air balloons floating over the wheat fields to the major aviation corporations that still call the city home, Wichita has been associated with the wonder of flight, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2003. The images in this book document the evolution of flight and its subsequent effect on the cowtown that dared to dream it could become an international center for aviation.
Pilot Chase
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Author : Janet Aisbett
language : en
Publisher: Rockhill Books
Release Date : 2013-10
Pilot Chase written by Janet Aisbett and has been published by Rockhill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
Three identical small airplanes are on the Beechcraft factory assembly line in Wichita, Kansas, when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. It's 1963. A half-century later, authors Janet Aisbett and Greg Gibbon follow scant clues across three continents to uncover the life stories of these "sister" planes and their colorful cast of owners. Read how the chase unfolded, and savor the resulting mini-biographies of people a little richer, a little bolder than most of us. These stories of American entrepreneurs, Australian opal miners, French industrialists and more, reveal the varied paths by which people develop a passion for planes and acquire the means to own them. This peep into that community will provide fascinating answers to the question: "What's it like to own a plane?" and perhaps give pause to those who've always said they'd never want to go up in one.
Hearings Before The Committee On Naval Affairs Of The House Of Representatives On Sundry Legislation Affecting The Naval Establishment 1941 1942
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Hearings Before The Committee On Naval Affairs Of The House Of Representatives On Sundry Legislation Affecting The Naval Establishment 1941 1942 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with categories.
Hidden History Of Kansas
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Author : Adrian Zink
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017
Hidden History Of Kansas written by Adrian Zink and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
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Stearman Aircraft
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Author : Edward H. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Specialty Press (MN)
Release Date : 2006
Stearman Aircraft written by Edward H. Phillips and has been published by Specialty Press (MN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Transportation categories.
The history of the Stearman Aircraft Company is about American entrepreneurship, aeronautical innovation, and the sheer determination to design and manufacture custom-built airplanes that set a standard for the competition to follow. In his new book Stearman Aircraft, author Edward Phillips follows the career of Lloyd Carlton Stearman from his work on the New Swallow biplane to the expansion of Stearman facilities into Boeing Airplane Company plants. In between was the Travel Air years, out of which came the Model A, B, CH, CW, BW, and Type 5000. The book also pays special attention to Stearman's rare C1 and C2 biplanes, as well as later upgraded C2s, the C3 series, the M-2, the LT-1, the luxurious CAB-1, the Model 6 Cloudboy, and others. During World War II, Boeing's sprawling facilities churned out thousands of Kaydet biplanes to train fledgling aviators, more than 1,600 B-29 Superfortresses heavy bombers to pound Japan into submission, and a steady stream of critical airframe assemblies for the famed B-17 Flying Fortress to reduce Hitler's Third Reich to rubble. For its work on these great aircraft, Boeing's Wichita Division earned six Army-Navy E awards for excellence in manufacturing and production.
B 29 Superfortress The Plane That Won The War
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Author : Gene Gurney
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-07-23
B 29 Superfortress The Plane That Won The War written by Gene Gurney and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with B-29 (Bomber) categories.
B-29 Superfortress: The Plane that Won the War is the definitive work on the crucial role played by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress during World War II. Author Gene Gurney takes the reader from the super plane's inception, test flights and production to its combat deployments and its ultimate purpose of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Clemente
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Author : David Maraniss
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-26
Clemente written by David Maraniss and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss. On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, a book destined to become a modern classic. Much like his acclaimed biography of Vince Lombardi, When Pride Still Mattered, Maraniss uses his narrative sweep and meticulous detail to capture the myth and a real man. Anyone who saw Clemente, as he played with a beautiful fury, will never forget him. He was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. During his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he won four batting titles and led his team to championships in 1960 and 1971, getting a hit in all fourteen World Series games in which he played. His career ended with three-thousand hits, the magical three-thousandth coming in his final at-bat, and he and the immortal Lou Gehrig are the only players to have the five-year waiting period waived so they could be enshrined in the Hall of Fame immediately after their deaths. There is delightful baseball here, including thrilling accounts of the two World Series victories of Clemente’s underdog Pittsburgh Pirates, but this is far more than just another baseball book. Roberto Clemente was that rare athlete who rose above sports to become a symbol of larger themes. Born near the canebrakes of rural Carolina, Puerto Rico, on August 18, 1934, at a time when there were no blacks or Puerto Ricans playing organized ball in the United States, Clemente went on to become the greatest Latino player in the major leagues. He was, in a sense, the Jackie Robinson of the Spanish-speaking world, a ballplayer of determination, grace, and dignity who paved the way and set the highest standard for waves of Latino players who followed in later generations and who now dominate the game. The Clemente that Maraniss evokes was an idiosyncratic character who, unlike so many modern athletes, insisted that his responsibilities extended beyond the playing field. In his final years, his motto was that if you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth. Here, in the final chapters, after capturing Clemente’s life and times, Maraniss retraces his final days, from the earthquake to the accident, using newly uncovered documents to reveal the corruption and negligence that led the unwitting hero on a mission of mercy toward his untimely death as an uninspected, overloaded plane plunged into the sea.