FLIGHT

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because American planes were woefully inadequate for service on the Western Front. Why was the United States so poorly prepared to engage in aerial combat in World War I?

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (December 8, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807826278
ISBN-13: 978-0807826270
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1 inches

The serious student of aviation history will come away from this book with a much better understanding of the complex military, political and personal interactions that determined the course of U.S. Army aviation through the end of the First World War.