The Airway To Everywhere

Author : W. David Lewis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976501
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Airway to Everywhere written by W. David Lewis and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1988-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the history of All American Aviation of western Pennsylvania, a commercial airline pioneer. The brainchild of self-styled inventor Dr. Lytle S. Adams and Richard C. du Pont, the company began as an airmail delivery carrier, taking advantage of the Experimental Air Mail Act passed by Congress in 1938. The Airway to Everywhere relates the exciting early days of airmail delivery—hair-raising tales of courageous pilots who scooped mail bags tethered to wires strung between poles on makeshift airfields. The story of this airline is placed within the context a typical twentieth-century American business pattern-where technological innovation is followed by development and commercial application, followed by government subsidies and corporate takeovers. In that vein, All American Aviation would become Allegheny Airlines, and later, U.S. Air.

Author : Bob Barrage
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1732956103
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birdville School; A Portrait of Small-Town America in the 20th Century written by Bob Barrage and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birdville School opened in 1922 on the corner of two dirt roads at the edge of a fallow farm. Over the next 67 school years it witnessed, and influenced, the unfolding story of the town that grew up around it, amid flood, brushfire, blizzard, tornado, and earthquake; poverty and prosperity; war, peace, and cold war; and even the collapse of the earth beneath its foundations. Its auditorium and cafeteria hosted PTA meetings, plays, movies, concerts, basketball tournaments, holiday parties, Girl Scout and Boy Scout meetings, polio vaccination clinics, and war-time rationing registrations and scrap-collection drives. Local sand-lot softball, baseball, and football teams competed in the same surrounding fields that swarmed with gleeful children at recess, and that echoed with the roar of low-flying aircrafts snagging mailbags on their tail hooks. Among its staff were thespians, musicians, firemen, outdoorsmen, and athletes, including a singer who performed in the Coolidge White House, a candidate for the state legislature, an army medic, and a ball player who faced off against the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Pirates. By the time classes concluded for the last time in 1989, thousands of children - including the author - had benefitted from the care, instruction, and example of the Birdville School family. This book is a feeble tribute to those who made us who we are.

Author : Richard David Wissolik
Publisher : SVC Northern Appalachian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781885851178
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place in the Sky written by Richard David Wissolik and published by SVC Northern Appalachian Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Arnold Palmer Regional airport in Latrobe, Westmoreland Country, Pennsylvania.

Author : Paul Jarvis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445654652
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Airways written by Paul Jarvis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the integral part that maps have to play in the fascinating history of air travel.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian and Eastern Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 29, no. 8-37, no. 7 (Aug., 1937-July, 1944) include the section: Aviation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Air Reservist written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter David Lewis
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814208335
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airline Executives and Federal Regulation written by Walter David Lewis and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of eight case studies of relationships between airline executives and federal regulatory agencies from the passage of the Air Commerce Act in 1926 to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. By focusing on the lives and personalities of individual entrepreneurs, W. David Lewis and his contributors hope to explore the interaction between technology, government regulation, and entrepreneurship. Each essay in the book focuses on a particular airline executive, such as Eddie Rickenbacker, Robert Six, and Donald Nyrop. Lewis has been careful to give a variety of perspective: Airlines of various types are represented -- large and small, scheduled and unscheduled. Some of the executives profiled were known for having adversative relationships with federal regulators, whereas others wholeheartedly accepted regulation and thrived under it. There have been public calls for a return to airline regulation, and Lewis thinks it is not inconceivable that regulation may ultimately return if problems continue and conditions deteriorate further. But, he say's, it is well to remember that deregulation occurred because there were flaws in the regulatory system it replaced. This collection of essays -- scholarly and well documented but written in a lively style suitable for specialists and nonspecialists alike -- provides a long-range perspective on the issue of airline deregulation.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amending the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amending the Merchant Marine Act of 1936: Hearing, Dec. 8, 1937 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christal Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air, Air, Everywhere written by Christal Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities for young children illustrating the importance of air quality and environmental protection.