Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire by David T. Courtwright

Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire


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Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire David T. Courtwright
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press


When the Wright brothers invented their flying machine, Americans lived in a nation of two dimensions, circumscribed by lines drawn on a conventional map. A century later, their nation existed—in fact, reigned—in three dimensions. Two million Americans "slipped the surly bonds of earth" daily, carried aloft by aircraft operating in every part of the world. The airplane turned the sky into a new domain of human activity, a fast-developing frontier first braved by adventurous young men. Then came the rich and the hurried, followed by just about everybody else. Until now, no one has told the story of aviation as one of frontier expansion. Aviation's ...

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