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| Pt. I | The age of the pioneers | 3 |
| 1 | Sky as frontier | 5 |
| 2 | The worm gets the early birds | 21 |
| 3 | Gone west | 38 |
| 4 | The next thing to suicide | 56 |
| 5 | The Protestant ethic and the Spirit of St. Louis | 70 |
| Pt. II | The age of mass experience | 89 |
| 6 | Assisted takeoff | 91 |
| 7 | The Rome of the air | 110 |
| 8 | Routine stuff | 132 |
| 9 | Marginal costs with wings | 151 |
| 10 | Space as frontier | 172 |
| Pt. III | The significance of air and space in American history | 193 |
| 11 | Winners and losers | 195 |
| 12 | A storm of planes | 209 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Paul Lemieux
reviewed Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire on September 13, 2020 Sky as Frontier
With all due respect to Da Capo Press--I have and enjoy several books published by Da Capo--I think Orville and Wilbur Wright would have taken offense at the peculiar title of this book (Miracle at Kitty Hawk).
I suspect the Wright Brothers themselves would have wished to emphasize the fact that their work was the product of uniquely human skills such as patience, perseverance, research and analysis, trial and error, and good old fashioned hard work, rather than intangibles that diminish the human experience such as luck, magic, miracles, or providence.
Normally, I try not to pick on words when it serves no purpose, but in this case, whoever titled this particular publication really missed the boat . . . or the plane, literally.
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Add Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, 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 s, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, 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 s, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire to your collection on WonderClub |
