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Into the blue: American writing on aviation and spaceflight
2011, Library of America
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1598531085 9781598531084
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Table of Contents
On the first balloons / Benjamin Franklin
"Carlotte, the lady aeronaut" (Mary H. Myers) from 'Aerial adventures of Carlotta; or, Sky-larking in cloudland'
From 'Gleanings in bee culture' / A.I. Root
From 'A record-breaking balloon voyage' / Henry Helm Clayton
The Wright brothers' aëroplane / Orville and Wilbur Wright
Flying, a dream come true! / Ida M. Tarbell
Aviator tells new terrors for armies / Glenn L. Martin
Notes on war experiences / Eddie Rickenbacker
From 'A Yankee ace in the RAF' / Bogart Rogers
A Paris-to-Strasburg flight shows living cubist picture / Ernest Hemingway
Air circus / Hart Stilwell and Slats Rodgers
The day I sprouted wings / J. Herman Banning
Transatlantic / Gilbert Seldes
From 'The Spirit of St. Louis' / Charles A. Lindbergh
From 'Shadows of the sun' / Harry Crosby
Eight miles
straight up! / Hawthorne C. Gray
Across / Amelia Earhart
From 'The world from the air' / Waldo Frank
From 'Atlantic takeoff' / Ruth Nichols
Air stewardess / Francis Vivian Drake
Twelve strangers in the night / Elizabeth M. Bisgood
Knapsack of salvation / Wolfgang Langewiesche
(cont.) From 'Everybody's autobiography' / Gertrude Stein
From 'Test pilot' / Jimmy Collins
Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos
From 'Adventure was the compass' / Alma Heflin
From 'All the brave promises' / Mary Lee Settle
Flying home / Ralph Ellison
First mission / Bert Stiles
From 'I've had it' / Beirne Lay Jr.
From 'Flights of passage' / Samuel Hynes
From 'Song of the sky' / Guy Murchie
Six freshmen and an ercoupe / William F. Buckley Jr.
From 'Fate Is the hunter' / Ernest K. Gann
From 'Yeager : an autobiography' / Chuck Yaeger
From 'The hunters' / James Salter
From 'Crossing the last frontier' / Wernher von Braun
From 'Flight into space' / Jonathan Norton Leonard
From 'The man who rode the thunder' / William R. Rankin
From 'The right stuff' / Tom Wolfe
From 'Stranger to the ground' / Richard Bach
From 'John Glenn, a memoir' / John Glenn
From 'Flight of passage' / Rinker Buck
From 'Carrying the fire' / Michael Collins
(cont.) From 'Thud Ridge' / Jack Broughton
From 'Dispatches' / Michael Herr
From 'Failure is not an option' / Gene Kranz
From 'Of a fire on the moon' / Norman Mailer
From 'Magnificent desolation' / Buzz Aldrin
Big sky / Gordon Baxter
From 'On extended wings' / Diane Ackerman
The iron maiden / Sherman Baldwin
Starduster / Laurence Gonzales
From 'Something's got to give' / Darcy Frey
The turn / William Langewiesche
From 'Up in the air' / Walter Kirn
From 'The Kabul-ki dance' / Mark Bowden
Home / Chris Jones.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-661) and index.
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