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Centennial of Flight Series by Maura Phillips Mackowski

20 primary works • 20 total works
Published by TAMU Press
Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight
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4.20 · 5 Ratings · published 2005 · 2 editions
In 1958 the United States launched its first satel…

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    Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    Taking Flight explores the emergence of commercial…

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    Flying Man: Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation (Volume 20)
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) was a German engineer and…

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    Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (Volume 18)
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2009 · 6 editions
    Long before the space race captured the world’s at…

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    Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers (Volume 10)
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2004 · 7 editions
    In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 193…

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    US Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967 (Volume 19)
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2012 · 5 editions
    In the clash of ideologies represented by the Cold…

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    The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · published 2007 · 6 editions
    In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the …

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    The Bird is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane
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    4.00     · 13 Ratings · published 2003 · 5 editions
    The airplane ranks as one of history’s most ingeni…

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    Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation & Empire
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    4.00     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    The airplane changed the course of history. Above …

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    The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (Volume 8)
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    4.50     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    The First Space Race reveals the inside story of a…

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    American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm (Volume 2)
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    3.31     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 8 editions
    Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight …

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    Electronics in the Evolution of Flight (Volume 9)
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    3.69     · 13 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Electronics in the Evolution of Flight traces the …

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    100 Years of Air Power and Aviation (Volume 5)
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    3.43     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 3 editions
    In Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century…

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    Like Sex with Gods: An Unorthodox History of Flying
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
    "Human flight is not a simple matter of science an…

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    Dreams of Flight: General Aviation in the United States (Volume 4)
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
    General aviation encompasses all the ways aircraft…

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    Into the Wild Blue Yonder: My Life in the Air Force (Volume 13)
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2005 · 5 editions
    Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the …

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    Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (Volume 7)
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2003 · 4 editions
    The history of the air age has mostly been written…

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    Spying from Space: Constructing America's Satellite Command and Control Systems (Centennial of Flight Series)
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    4.08     · 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
    On August 14, 1960, a revolution quietly occurred …

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    From the Pilot Factory, 1942 (Volume 14)
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 2 editions
    In 1939, the United States Army Air Force trained …

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    America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947 (Volume 1)
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Chicago-O'Hare, DFW, LAX, New York–La Guardia. Acr…

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