"In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kit…
Air empire: British imperial civil aviation, 1919-39
Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
Presents the development of jet passenger aircraft in America and elsewhere.
Since September 11, 2001, the nation's security leadership has stressed airport and passenger security. Keeping people, cargo, and infrastructure safer requires, among other things, understanding effective security procedures, the concept and limits of security, production metho…
