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Weekend Pilots : Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America by Alan Meyer, 1965- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Weekend Pilots : Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America about?
The inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation. In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a white, male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high sk
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alan Meyer, 1965-
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781421418599
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Sports, Engineering
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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