The history of the air age has mostly been written from the perspective of aircraft designers, builders, and pilots. 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 newspaper--and in airline cabins during peacetime and bomb shelters during wartime. It is a book about the ways in which people outside the aviation business have looked at, dreamed about, and worried over powered flight in the century since the ...
Read More
The history of the air age has mostly been written from the perspective of aircraft designers, builders, and pilots. 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 newspaper--and in airline cabins during peacetime and bomb shelters during wartime. It is a book about the ways in which people outside the aviation business have looked at, dreamed about, and worried over powered flight in the century since the Wright brothers first showed a startled world that it was possible. Imagining Flight 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. Among the topics covered are: dreams of aviation's future, from the Wright brothers to the space shuttle; pilots as heroes, including Lindbergh, Earhart, Yeager, and the "Red Baron"; the promise (and threat) of aerial bombing; five decades of airline advertising and the changing expectations it created; aviation disasters, and the stories we tell about them; and flight in film and television, stories and songs. Imagining Flight carries these themes into the twenty-first century and considers them in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Columbia disaster. It is thus the first book to explore the entire first century of flight through the eyes of those who watched it from the ground.
Read Less
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (Volume to cart. $5.00, good condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (Volume to cart. $6.48, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation & Popular Culture to cart. $8.00, like new condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation & Popular Culture to cart. $8.00, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation & Popular Culture to cart. $8.25, new condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture to cart. $24.84, new condition, Sold by rockyblue rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from GLADWIN, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (Volume to cart. $81.35, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (Volume to cart. $85.85, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Texas A&M University Press.
