The American Aviation Experience: A History

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Tim Brady
SIU Press, 2000 - History - 462 pages
This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America.

The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. Contributors also cover balloons and dirigibles, African American pioneers in aviation, and women in aviation. These essayists--leading scholars in the field--present the history of aviation mainly from an American perspective.

The American Aviation Experience includes 335 black-and-white photographs, two maps, and an appendix, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Flight.."

 

Contents

The Ancients
1
Developments Before the Wright Brothers
91
Orville and Wilbur Wright
101
Preparation and Discovery
107
Advancements
113
Experiment Association
122
Military Airpower Developments
255
The War in Vietnam
265
Naval Aviation
287
Government and Aviation
295
An Anthology of Key Aviation Legislation
303
Early Dirigible Development
320
Postwar Development
326
African American Pioneers in Aviation
349
Early Developments in Africa
455
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The Cold
279

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About the author (2000)

Tim Brady is the dean of the School of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. He is a past president of the University Aviation Association, an airline transport pilot, and a former USAF pilot.