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Tables of Contents for The American Aviation Experience
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
The Ancients
1
12
Tim Brady
Legends
1
5
Theories, Scientific Thought, and Experiments
6
7
Developments Before the Wright Brothers
13
35
Charles Rodriguez
Forerunners of the Practical Airplane
13
31
Aeronautical Advances
44
1
Points of Stagnation
45
1
The Total Airplane
46
2
Orville and Wilbur Wright
48
19
Paul A. Whelan
The Early Years
48
2
Nurturing and Training
50
1
The Restless Years
51
1
Preparation and Discovery
52
5
The Dream of Flight and Reality
57
7
The Legacy
64
3
Advancements in Powered Flight Before World War I
67
31
Tim Brady
The Wrights' Marketing Attempts
67
6
Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association
73
1
S. F. Cody
74
1
A. V. Roe
75
1
The First Flight Across the English Channel
76
3
The First Air Meet
79
4
The First Long-Distance Race
83
3
Air Shows and Air Races
86
2
Pioneering Naval Operations
88
2
The First Flight Across North America
90
1
The Greatest Flight Ever Made
91
2
Aircraft Engine Development
93
1
The Wright Lawsuit
94
4
World War I
98
27
Tim Brady
Early Air Combat
98
3
Roland Garros
101
2
Anthony Fokker
103
1
American Perceptions
104
1
Aircraft Manufacturing
105
1
The Bolling Mission
106
1
Deceptions, Allegations, and Investigations
107
2
The Liberty Engine
109
1
Manufacturing Analysis
110
1
The Shifting Fortunes of War in the Air
111
2
Pilot Training
113
5
Engine Development
118
1
The American Airman at War
119
2
Naval Aviation
121
1
The American Impact on the Aerial War Effort
122
3
U.S. Airlines Before 1930
125
26
Tim Brady
Early Airmail Experiments
125
1
Capt. Benjamin Lipsner
125
4
Expansion
129
2
Jack ``Skinny'' Knight
131
3
Prelude to Private Ownership
134
1
The Private Companies
134
1
The Beginning of Boeing
134
2
The Kelly Act
136
6
The Columbia Route
142
2
The Air Commerce Act of 1926
144
1
The Lindbergh Influence
144
1
United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
144
2
The Keys Group
146
1
The Aviation Corporation (AVCO)
147
2
Pan American
149
2
Developments Between the Wars
151
20
James E. Crehan
Tim Brady
Barnstormers
151
2
Lindbergh
153
5
General Aviation
158
3
Other Manufacturers
161
3
The Guggenheim Foundation
164
1
Aircraft Engine Development
165
1
The Development of the Jet Engine
166
5
U.S. Airlines from 1930 to World War II
171
14
Tim Brady
President Herbert Hoover, Aviation's Friend
171
1
Walter Folger Brown
172
1
The Hoover-Brown Philosophy
173
1
The Airmail Act of 1930
174
1
The So-Called Spoils Conferences
175
2
Roosevelt Elected
177
1
Luddington, Lewis, and Scandal
177
1
The Army Flies the Mail
178
1
The Airmail Act of 1934
179
1
The Boeing 247 and the DC-1
180
5
World War II
185
33
Thomas J. Connolly
The War Begins
191
3
The Battle of Britain
194
1
Western Europe, 1942-1943
195
1
America Prepares
196
2
Lend Lease and the Arsenal of Democracy
198
1
The ``Flying Tigers''
198
1
Pearl Harbor
198
2
War in the Pacific, 1942-1945
200
1
Raid over Tokyo
201
1
The Battle of the Coral Sea
202
1
The Battle of Midway
202
2
Leyte Gulf
204
1
European Theater of Operations, 1943-1944
204
3
North Africa
207
1
Eastern Europe
208
1
Western Europe, 1943-1944
209
1
D-Day
210
5
Victory in Europe (V-E Day)
215
1
Victory in Japan (V-J Day)
215
3
U.S. Air Carriers after World War II
218
23
Henry R. Lehrer
Air Carrier Industry Overview
218
6
Air Carriers
224
1
Individual Major Air Carriers
225
13
Gone Forever
238
1
The Future
239
2
General Aviation after World War II
241
14
William McCurry
The Transition from War to Peace
241
4
Changing Expectations: The 1950s
245
1
The Boom Years: The 1960s
246
2
A Decade of Change: The 1970s
248
2
More Problems: The 1980s
250
2
The 1990s
252
1
The General Aviation Revitalization Act
253
1
The Challenge of the Future
253
2
Military Airpower Developments after World War II
255
40
Paul A. Whelan
The Korean War
260
5
The War in Vietnam
265
14
The Cold War
279
3
The Persian Gulf War
282
5
Naval Aviation
287
3
The Future of Military Airpower
290
5
Government and Aviation
295
12
David A. NewMyer
Federal Agencies
295
2
State and Local Agencies
297
1
Aircraft
297
4
Airports
301
1
Airways
302
1
An Anthology of Key Aviation Legislation
303
4
Balloons and Dirigibles
307
28
Robeson S. Moise
Early Balloons
307
4
A Century of Show Aeronauts
311
3
Military Uses of Balloons
314
3
Balloons for Science and Sport
317
3
Early Dirigible Development
320
1
Dirigibles of the Early Twentieth Century
321
2
Dirigibles in World War I
323
3
Postwar Development
326
2
The Great Airships
328
7
African American Pioneers in Aviation
335
32
Isaac Richmond Nettey
Early Developments in Africa
335
2
Developments in the United States
337
8
Military Aviation
345
13
Postwar Civil Aviation
358
1
Space
359
8
Women in Aviation
367
46
Hope Bouvette Thornberg
The Early Days, 1784-1900
367
1
Women and Their Flying Machines, 1910-1918
368
5
Peacetime and Flight, 1918-1930s
373
6
The Middle Days, Mid-1930s
379
4
Women in Wartime, 1939-1944
383
8
The Postwar Years, 1945-1950
391
1
Changing Times, 1951-1980
392
6
Today's Women in Aviation, 1981-Present
398
6
General Aviation
404
3
Women in Space
407
6
Space History
413
20
Lance Erickson
Rocketry
413
3
Early Space Programs
416
2
The Apollo Legacy
418
7
Space Stations
425
2
The U.S. Space Transportation System
427
2
The Future
429
4
Appendix: Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Flight
433
12
Contributors
445
2
Index
447