Imagining flight
Subtitle: aviation and popular culture
By: A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Centennial of flight series -- no. 7
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: College Station, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Aeronautics -- Popular works; Aeronautics -- History
Genres: Popular works
Description: Imagining Flight is a history of the air age as the rest of us have experienced it: on the pages of books, the screens of movie theaters, and the front pages of newspapers. It focuses on the United States, but also contrasts American ideas and attitudes with those of other air-minded nations, including Britain, France, Germany and Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-194) and index