Aviation History / Edition 1

by Anne Millbrooke

Overview

Aviation History opens with the first flights of balloons in 1783 and continues the story of flight to the present. The book covers general aviation, commercial aviation, military aviation, and aerospace, in the informative text, as well as in summaries of events, timelines, personal profiles, flight lines (quotations), historical notes, graphics, photographs, and bibliographies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780884874331
Publisher:	Aviall Services
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	636
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Anne Millbrooke was born in western Oregon and raised on the coast of Washington state. She went east to college, first to Boise State College in Idaho for a bachelor's degree, then to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a master's degree, and finally to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for her doctorate. Her field of study was history. She directed the Archive and Historical Resource Center at United Technologies Corporation, and thereby served as the historian for Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Standard, Sikorsky, and other divisions of the corporation. She taught history at universities in Alaska, Connecticut, and Montana. Along the way, she has won Mellon, Smithsonian, National Science Foundation, and NASA fellowships. Now a freelance writer, she lives in Bozeman. Her latest major publication is a revised, updated edition of her award-winning Aviation History book.

What People are Saying About This

Nanette Scarpellini

"The author supplies an in-depth analysis of various aspects of aviation often glossed over in aviation books."--(Nanette Scarpellini, Journal of Air Transportation)

Chad Trautvetter

"Chronicling mankind's journey from dreaming about flight to achieving and developing it is a daunting task in one book, but Anne Millbrooke, a pilot and historian who specializes in science and technology, accomplished this challenging feat in Aviation History."--(Chad Trautvetter, Aviation International News)