Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture

"Imagining Flight considers these themes in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the "Columbia disaster. It is thus the first book to explore the entire first century of flight through the eyes of those who watched if from the ground.

About the author

A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian of science and technology who teaches at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. He is also the author of "Men "Among" the Mammoths" (1993), "Science in Popular Culture" (2002), as well as numerous articles on the histories of geology, archaeology, and aerospace technology. He took his first airplane ride at the age of five, and has been looking up ever since.

Summary

The history of the air age has mostly been written from the perspective of aircraft designers, builders, and pilots. "Imagining Flight" is a history of the air age as the rest of us have experienced it: on the pages of books, the screens of movie theatres and the front pages of newspapers.

Product details

• Authors: A. Bowdoin Van Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (Southern Polytechnic State University Riper, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9781585443000
• ISBN: 978-1-58544-300-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 245 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Centennial of Flight Series; Centennial of Flight
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries