Airplanes the life story of a technology

Airplanes shows how the solutions to these riddles have helped spur dramatic changes in the world's social and cultural life.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinney, Jeremy R. (Author)
Corporate Author: National Air and Space Museum
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore The John Hopkins University Press 2008
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Table of Contents:
  • The Origins of Powered Flight
  • The First War in the Air, 1914-1918
  • The Aeronautical Revolution, 1918-1938
  • World War II in the Air, 1939-1945
  • The Second Aeronautical Revolution, 1930-1960
  • The Jet Airplane as a Military Weapon, 1945-Present
  • The Commercial Airplane, 1945-Present
  • General Aviation, 1920-Present
  • Conclusion: Higher, Ever Higher