Weekend Pilots
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Weekend Pilots
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Author : Alan Meyer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-12-30
Weekend Pilots written by Alan Meyer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-30 with History categories.
The inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation. In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a white, male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high skill levels, that celebrated facing and overcoming risk, and that encouraged fierce personal independence. The Second World War proved an important turning point in popularizing private aviation. Military flight schools and postwar GI-Bill flight training swelled the ranks of private pilots with hundreds of thousands of young, mostly middle-class men. Formal flight instruction screened and acculturated aspiring fliers to meet a masculine norm that traced its roots to prewar barnstorming and wartime combat training. After the war, the aviation community's response to aircraft designs played a significant part in the technological development of personal planes. Meyer also considers the community of pilots outside the cockpit—from the time-honored tradition of "hangar flying" at local airports to air shows to national conventions of private fliers—to argue that almost every aspect of private aviation reinforced the message that flying was by, for, and about men. The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.
Sunday Pilot Airborne Tales Of A Weekend Flyer
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Author : Bill Pohlmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Sunday Pilot Airborne Tales Of A Weekend Flyer written by Bill Pohlmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Transportation categories.
Weekend Wings
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Author : Frank Kingston Smith
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1982
Weekend Wings written by Frank Kingston Smith and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Transportation categories.
Earning Their Wings
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Author : Sarah Parry Myers
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-09-14
Earning Their Wings written by Sarah Parry Myers and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with History categories.
Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot's license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied over three decades of Army Air Force benefits as well as the honor and respect given to male and female World War II veterans of other branches. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists. Myers shows us how those in the WASP program bonded through their training, living together in barracks, sharing the dangers of risky flights, and struggling to be recognized as military personnel, and the friendships they forged lasted well after the Army Air Force dissolved the program. Despite the WASP program's short duration, its fliers formed activist networks and spent the next thirty years lobbying for recognition as veterans. Their efforts were finally recognized when President Jimmy Carter signed a bill into law granting WASP participants retroactive veteran status, entitling them to military benefits and burials.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The House Committee On Ways And Means
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The House Committee On Ways And Means written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Finance, Public categories.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Administration S Proposals On Airway User Charges
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Administration S Proposals On Airway User Charges written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Aeronautics, Commercial categories.
Discusses President's proposals to increase airline ticket sales tax and to create a sales tax on air freight through Jan. 1, 1969, and to provide tax refund for airlines while implementing tax on fuel used by non-commercial aircraft.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Finance categories.
Tiger Check
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Author : Steven A. Fino
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Tiger Check written by Steven A. Fino and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Science categories.
How did American fighter pilots respond to the challenges posed by increasing automation? Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be “tigers,” aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fireball-spewing enemy MiGs, relying on their keen eyesight, piloting finesse, and steady trigger fingers to achieve victory. But by the 1980s, American fighter pilots vanquished their foes by focusing on a four-inch-square cockpit display, manipulating electromagnetic waves, and launching rocket-propelled guided missiles from miles away. In this new era of automated, long-range air combat, can fighter pilots still be considered tigers? Aimed at scholars of technology and airpower aficionados alike, Steven A. Fino’s Tiger Check offers a detailed study of air-to-air combat focusing on three of the US Air Force’s most famed aircraft: the F-86E Sabre, the F-4C Phantom II, and the F-15A Eagle. Fino argues that increasing fire control automation altered what fighter pilots actually did during air-to-air combat. Drawing on an array of sources, as well as his own decade of experience as an F-15C fighter pilot, Fino unpacks not just the technological black box of fighter fire control equipment, but also fighter pilots’ attitudes toward their profession and their evolving aircraft. He describes how pilots grappled with the new technologies, acutely aware that the very systems that promised to simplify their jobs while increasing their lethality in the air also threatened to rob them of the quintessential—albeit mythic—fighter pilot experience. Finally, Fino explains that these new systems often required new, unique skills that took time for the pilots to identify and then develop. Eschewing the typical “great machine” or “great pilot” perspectives that dominate aviation historiography, Tiger Check provides a richer perspective on humans and machines working and evolving together in the air. The book illuminates the complex interactions between human and machine that accompany advancing automation in the workplace.
Weekend Warrior Sense
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Weekend Warrior Sense written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Aeronautics, Military categories.