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The Nation's Hangar

Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian

By: F. Robert van der Linden

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The Nation's Hangar

Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian

By: F. Robert van der Linden

The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian offers a fascinating textual and visual history of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. The Nation's Hangar charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. F. Robert Van Der Linden, a Smithsonian curator and leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these innovations have changed the course of human history. The Nation's Hangar is also a visual delight. The Smithsonian aircraft collection has never looked so compelling and sleek. The Nation's Hangar is a must-have for that fly boy or fly girl in your flight pattern.

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259

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Smithsonian Institution

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ISBN 10

1588344533

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9781588344533

Airlines and Air Mail

The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

By: F. Robert van der Linden

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Airlines and Air Mail

The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

By: F. Robert van der Linden

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.

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571

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318441X

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9780813184418

The Boeing 247

The First Modern Airliner

By: F. Robert Van der Linden,Victor J Seely

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The Boeing 247

The First Modern Airliner

By: F. Robert Van der Linden,Victor J Seely

In 1933, the Boeing Aircraft Company set a new standard for air transportation by introducing the Boeing 247 a graceful, all-metal, twin-engined aircraft that was 50 percent faster than the competition. Van der Linden traces the development of the 247 and the odyssey from its brief period of dominan

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University of Washington Press

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0295803819

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9780295803814

Book's by F. Robert van Van Der Linden

The Nation's Hangar

The Nation's Hangar

Airlines and Air Mail

Airlines and Air Mail

The Boeing 247

The Boeing 247

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