Sky As Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, And EmpireTexas A&M University Press, 2005 - 284 halaman The airplane changed the course of history. Above all, it changed the history of the United States. When the Wright brothers invented their flying machine, Americans lived in a nation of two dimensions, circumscribed by lines drawn on a conventional map. A century later, their nation existed—in fact, reigned—in three dimensions. Two million Americans slipped the surly bonds of earth daily, carried aloft by aircraft operating in every part of the world. The airplane turned the sky into a new domain of human activity, a fast-developing frontier. The first to brave that frontier were adventurous young men. Then came the rich and the hurried. Then just about everybody else. Until now, no one has told the story of aviation as one of frontier expansion. David Courtwright does so in Sky as Frontier. He has written an ambitious history of American aviation ranging from the patent fight between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss through the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War. Along the way, Courtwright stops to consider dogfighting, barnstorming, the first air mail pilots, the development of airlines, air power during World War II, flight’s impact on the environment, the troubled space frontier, and how the male-dominated aviation enterprise was domesticated and democratized. Aviation’s frontier stage lasted a scant three decades, then vanished as flying became a settled experience. Sky as Frontier recreates that pioneer world and shows how commercial and military imperatives destroyed it by routinizing flight. At bottom, it is the story of a fateful tradeoff. Rationalization killed the adventure in flying but made possible rapid aerial expansion. With it came commercial growth and glob8al military reach. In no other country did social life, business, and military operations become so intertwined with aerospace advances, or have such large consequences for national power and prestige. |
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... City , and tossed a thousand dollar bill on the Hotel Chalfonte bar . He bade all to drink their fill . Rickenbacker , though no stranger to hotel bars , had contented himself with publishing a celebratory essay . The difference between ...
... City , and tossed a thousand dollar bill on the Hotel Chalfonte bar . He bade all to drink their fill . Rickenbacker , though no stranger to hotel bars , had contented himself with publishing a celebratory essay . The difference between ...
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... cities . Paris , the ville lumiere , show- cased the possibilities of life after dark . Then the United States took the lead in nighttime ... city's residents Navy student pilots waiting for the ceiling to lift , 12 / AGE OF THE PIONEERS.
... cities . Paris , the ville lumiere , show- cased the possibilities of life after dark . Then the United States took the lead in nighttime ... city's residents Navy student pilots waiting for the ceiling to lift , 12 / AGE OF THE PIONEERS.
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... city to another . 15 Russia offers an interesting parallel . Had it not been for the disruptions of war and ... cities , Moscow and Vladivostok , were nearly twice as far apart as New York and San Francisco . Even copies of Pravda went ...
... city to another . 15 Russia offers an interesting parallel . Had it not been for the disruptions of war and ... cities , Moscow and Vladivostok , were nearly twice as far apart as New York and San Francisco . Even copies of Pravda went ...
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... cities gained army surplus airports as a peace dividend . Others built or enlarged fields farther from the central city . Idlewild ( later Kennedy ) Air- port , under construction in the early 1940s and completed in 1948 , eventu- ally ...
... cities gained army surplus airports as a peace dividend . Others built or enlarged fields farther from the central city . Idlewild ( later Kennedy ) Air- port , under construction in the early 1940s and completed in 1948 , eventu- ally ...
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... city directory of one California mining town listed " drifter " as an occupational category . When the railroad came ... cities when idled. Sky as Frontier 17.
... city directory of one California mining town listed " drifter " as an occupational category . When the railroad came ... cities when idled. Sky as Frontier 17.
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The worm Gets the Early Birds | 21 |
Gone West | 38 |
The Next Thing to Suicide | 56 |
The Protestant Ethic and the SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS | 70 |
The Age of Mass Experience | 89 |
Assisted Takeoff | 91 |
The Rome of the Air | 110 |
Space as Frontier | 172 |
The Significance of Air and Space in American History | 193 |
Winners and Losers | 195 |
A Storm of Planes | 209 |
Acronyms and Abbreviations | 225 |
Notes | 227 |
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Illustration Credits | 265 |
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Halaman 15 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Halaman 7 - Whenever social conditions tended to crystallize in the East, whenever capital tended to press upon labor or political restraints to impede the freedom of the mass, there was this gate of escape to the free conditions of the frontier.