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<p>Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements&#151;human flight. In this revised and expanded third edition, Bilstein chronicles changes in military, commercial, and space aviation in the 1990s. He offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.<br> Richly illustrated and splendidly written, Flight in America charts the manifold ways in which the airplane has touched virtually every feature of American enterprise, history, and culture&#151;leisure and business travel, commercial transportation, national defense, and imaginative literature. More than 125 lively photographs document the beauty of flying machines and the daring of the men and women who invented, built, and flew them.<br> <P>Author Biography&#58;<br> Roger E. Bilstein is a professor of history, emeritus, at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is the author of Flight Patterns&#58; Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929 and Stages to Saturn&#58; A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles.<br></p> <h3>Technology and Culture</h3> <p>The most comprehensiv

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Author

Roger E. Bilstein

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801866852

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Engineering, History, Stem

Rating

4.4 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14