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Title Innovation and the development of flight / edited by Roger D. Launius.

Publication Info. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, [1999]
©1999

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 335 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Patterns of innovation in aeronautical technology / Roger D. Launius -- Langley and Wright aero accidents : two responses to early aeronautical innovation and government patronage / Norriss S. Hetherington -- Innovation in America's aviation support infrastructure : the evolving relationship between airports, cities, and industry / Janet R. Daly Bednarek -- Search for an instrument landing system, 1918-48 / William M. Leary -- Higher, faster, and farther : fueling the aeronautical revolution, 1919-45 / Stephen L. McFarland -- Engineering successful innovation : Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, 1925-40 / Bayla Singer -- Three-miles-a-minute : the National Advisory Committee for aeronautics and the development of the modern airliner / Deborah G. Douglas -- An airplane for everyman : the Department of Commerce and the light airplane industry, 1933-37 / Tom D. Crouch -- Paths for flight : innovation and the origin of radar / Louis Brown -- Rocket aircraft and the "turbojet revolution" : the Luftwaffe's quest for high-speed flight, 1935-39 / Michael J. Neufeld -- Revolutionary innovation and the invisible infrastructure : making Royal Air Force bomber command efficient, 1939-45 / Robin Higham -- Riding England's coattails : the U.S. Army Air Forces and the turbojet revolution / James O. Young -- Command innovation : lessons from the National Aerospace Plane program / Larry Schweikart.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Aeronautics -- History.
Aeronautics.
History.
Aeronautics -- Technological innovations -- History.
Aeronautics -- Technological innovations.
Flight -- History.
Flight.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Launius, Roger D.
Other Form: Print version: Innovation and the development of flight. 1st ed. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©1999 0890968764 (DLC) 98048723 (OCoLC)40143032
ISBN 0585371946 (electronic book)
9780585371948 (electronic book)
0890968764 (cloth)
9780890968765 (cloth)