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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics
Author: U. S. Civil Airmen Statistics
Author: FAA Statistical Handbook of Aviation
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
FAA Air Traffic Activity
Author: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation Policy, Plans, and Management AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics
Author: Census of U.S. Civil Aircraft
Author: Age 60 Rule Research
Author: Weekend Pilots
Author: Alan MeyerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation. In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a white, male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high skill levels, that celebrated facing and overcoming risk, and that encouraged fierce personal independence. The Second World War proved an important turning point in popularizing private aviation. Military flight schools and postwar GI-Bill flight training swelled the ranks of private pilots with hundreds of thousands of young, mostly middle-class men. Formal flight instruction screened and acculturated aspiring fliers to meet a masculine norm that traced its roots to prewar barnstorming and wartime combat training. After the war, the aviation community's response to aircraft designs played a significant part in the technological development of personal planes. Meyer also considers the community of pilots outside the cockpit—from the time-honored tradition of "hangar flying" at local airports to air shows to national conventions of private fliers—to argue that almost every aspect of private aviation reinforced the message that flying was by, for, and about men. The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.