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Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-23 00:00:00 Mamie Ault A Valuable Contribution to Aviation History A review by Daniel L. Berek Most books on aircraft and aviation focus on a particular type, a single manufacturer, or an era, focusing on chronology or technical details (or both). Drawing on the tradition started by Joseph Corn ("The Winged Gospel") and Robert Wohl ("A Passion for Wings" and "The Spectacle of Flight"), this book examines aviation history from a cultural perspective. "The Airplane in American Culture" is an important contribution to this new and important field of study. This book differs from others in that it is a collection of essays, each one focusing on a specific topic regarding the way the airplane has contributed to American culture and vice versa. The book is divided into four sections; the first one covers the public perception of the airplane. The first essay, "The Greatest Show Not on Earth," was contributed by the book's editor, Dominick Pisano, curator at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. This piece portrays early airplanes as an invention in search of a role and whether that role should be more utilitarian or entertainment. The aircraft was a machine that filled people with wonder; however, early airplanes lacked the power, range, reliability, and ability to carry an economically feasible payload. In the second essay, "The Man Nobody Knows," Charles L. Ponce de Leon examines how Lindbergh himself, along with his corporate sponsors, managed to keep the most famous aviator in the world a mysterious figure in the interest of promoting aviation as a serious and profitable endeavor. Interestingly, it was for similar reasons that the Wright brothers kept their aircraft secret from the date of their first powered and controlled flight in 1903 to the first exhibition of a more advanced version of the Flyer for the U.S. Army. The second section deals with race and gender. Jill D. Snider, in "Great Shadow in the Sky," shows how not everybody was "air-minded," embracing this wondrous new invention. She examines a little-known event in U.S. history in which local government officials used surplus military planes for social control in an African-American neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, terrorizing the entire community (and for that reason, this is an important piece). It is an interesting essay, but conspicuously absent are the public's embracing aviatrix Bessie Coleman and how the heroic Tuskegee Airmen embraced the airplane in World War II to gain equal footing with their white counterparts. In "Who Says It's a Man's World," Suzanne L. Kolm chronicles the roles women have played during the first half of the 20th century. Katherine Sharp Landdeck, in "Experiment in the Cockpit," presents an insightful exploration of the WASPs, female pilots who were hired and trained to ferry fighters and bombers during the Second World War, and how they were "disposed of" towards the end of the war, reflecting society's belief at the time that women still belonged in the kitchen. The third section is titled "Perceptions of the Landscape, Literature, and Art." The first essay of this set, "The Surly Bonds of Earth," is a beautifully written piece by Tom Crouch, a noted aviation writer and scholar. Here he covers how aviator authors, such as Beryl Markham, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery, described their experiences and how they viewed the world. Seeing the experience of flying through the eyes of people when aviation was not the form of mass transit it is today is a thrill, and Crouch's essay makes for stimulating reading. Laurence Goldstein continues the theme of aviation literature (and poetry) in "The Airplane and American Literature," while Gerald Silk does the same for the fine arts in "Our Future Is in the Air." While the last essay is well written, the lack of photographs showing the art makes reading it somewhat frustrating, unless the reader knows exactly the piece referred to. The fourth and final section is "The Airplane and the Culture of War." Ever since the Wright brothers first demonstrated their Flyer to the U.S. Army in 1908, aircraft designers have been examining the role the airplane could play in the military. During the First World War, the airplane started out as a reconnaissance tool, until machines with enough lifting power and range could be built to bomb. "Transforming Technology in the Air Corps, 1920-1940" by Timothy Moy chronicles how the airplane's role in the U.S. Army was primarily one as a bomber, reflecting a culture that this new weapon was so terrifying that the threat of offense would prevent war (thereby making the airplane an offensive rather than a defensive weapon). This would also be the philosophy behind the build-up of the world atomic arsenal. The lives of Alexander de Seversky and Billy Mitchell are documented. "Peace is Our Profession," by H. Bruce Franklin takes this theme into the immediate post-World War II period, with a title reflecting the propaganda of the period, using the language of which George Orwell so eloquently wrote. The only shortcoming with this essay is that the author leaves off with the early 1950s; yet, that decade is so well remembered as the Atomic Age; I have an advertisement from Convair showing its fighter jets, equipped with atomic weaponry, streaking over a suburban development with the caption "This is the sound of peace." The final piece, "Stick and Rudder University," by John Darrell Sherwood, examines the culture of the U.S. Air Force; unlike the other essays in the book, this one is purely military history. Editor Dominick Pisano wraps everything up with a fine bibliographic essay, covering the many aspects of the cultural history of aviation. It's a long book, but well worth reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-24 00:00:00 Gerald Fogerty i need the book Fundamentals of Flightfundamental of flight