Title: Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare
Subtitle: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
First published: January 14, 2002
Description: "This history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonomous with today's military-industrial complex: Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan and Malcolm Loughead of Lockheed. Weaving together institutional history and individual biography, Wayne Biddle depicts the years of uncertainty after World War I, the bonanza of World War II, and the cutthroat post-war market.

Unlike the automobile industry, the aircraft industry could never be sustained by the middle-class consumer economy, and these legendary founders had to depend on the federal government to keep their companies aloft. Barons of the Sky tells a thrilling story of obsessed men who, chasing their dreams of flight and success, created the modern aerospace weapons industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Aerospace industries, Aircraft industry, Airplanes, military, Aeronautics, military, History, Military Airplanes, Military Aeronautics, Military aspects