Clipping the clouds
Subtitle: how air travel changed the world
By: Marc Dierikx.
Series: Moving through history
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780275989101
Subjects: Air travel -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heroics : flying as an icon of the modern age, 1919-1945; title: Technology : air transport around the world, 1945-1961; title: Usage : the rise and fall of the jet set, 1961-1977; title: Effects : global travel for all, 1977-present.