Flight culture and the human experience /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Project Muse
Other Authors:	Palmer, Scott W., 1967- (Editor), Tapp, Caroline E. (Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2025]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 55
Subjects:	Aeronautics > Social aspects. Aeronautics and civilization. Air travel > History. Aéronautique > Aspect social. Aéronautique et civilisation. Voyages en avion > Histoire. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Caroline E. Tapp
The Utopian Machine: Lighter-Than-Air Flight and Romantic Socialism in Nineteenth-Century France / Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira
The British Air Mechanic at War and Aircraft Innovation, 1914-18 / Johanna Rustler
Gender, Race, and Heroic Aviation in Interwar Argentina, 1920-40 / Marc Alsina
Civil Air Transport and the Colonial Context in the Interwar Period / Marc Dierikx
"Detroyattaboy": Michel Détroyat and the 1936 National Air Races / Rénald Fortier
Chasing the Future: Why US Airports Seem Always Under Construction / Janet Bednarek
Selling the Fighter Pilot's Dream Machines: The F-15 and F-16 in the Public Eye / Michael W. Hankins.