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Wings : a history of aviation from kites to the space age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crouch, Tom D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : New York : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ; W.W. Norton, [2003]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Aeronautics > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foundation stories
  • Taking to the air
  • The world takes wing, 1904-1909
  • From experiment to industry, 1909-1914
  • Into the fight: the airplane at war, 1914-1918
  • Laying the foundation, 1919-1927
  • Big business, 1927-1935
  • The roar of the crowd, 1927-1939
  • Revolutions in the sky, 1926-1941
  • Setting the stage, 1929-1939
  • Battles in the sky, 1939-1945
  • Toward new horizons
  • From aviation to aerospace, 1945-2003
  • Cold war, hot war
  • A world in the air, 1945-2003.