Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight, these essays show how the Wrights' invention-and all that followed in both air and space-fundamentally reshaped our world. Leading aerospace historians consider four themes: innovation and technology, civil aeronautics and government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American imagination.
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Roger D. Launius is a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. He has written or edited a number of books, including Imagining Space: Achievements, Projections, Possibilities, 1950-2050.
Janet R. Daly Bednarek is associate professor of history at the University of Dayton. She is the author of America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947.
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