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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... could muster just thirty - three planes that cruised at more than 125 mph . The best European long - distance racing planes could ... by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line Sky as Frontier 15.
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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 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 263 |
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.
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Halaman 82 - 27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky. A young Minnesotan who seemed to have had nothing to do with his generation did a heroic thing, and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
Halaman 110 - We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world, as a symbol of freedom on the one hand ... and of overwhelming power on the other.
Halaman 78 - I weave in and out of the strange clouds, hidden in my tiny cockpit, submerged, alone, on the magnitude of this weird, unhuman space, venturing where man has never been, perhaps never meant to go. Am I myself a living, breathing, earth-bound body, or is this a dream of death I'm passing through? Am I alive, or am I really dead, a spirit in a spirit world.
Halaman 160 - I'll raise mine the next morning. PUTNAM: Robert, we ... CRANDALL: You'll make more money, and I will, too.
Halaman 79 - Before I made this flight I would have said carelessly that it was luck. Now, luck seems far too trivial a word, a term to be used only by those who've never seen the curtain drawn or looked on life from far away.
Halaman 210 - This is a political war and it calls for discrimination in killing. The best weapon for killing would be a knife, but I'm afraid we can't do it that way. The worst is an airplane. The next worst is artillery. Barring a knife, the best is a rifle — you know who you're killing.