- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2Chapter One — It’s Anybody’s Fight
- 3Chapter Two — The Power Plant, the Heart of an Airplane
- 4Chapter Three — Its Vital Spark
- 5Chapter Four — A Backward Art
- 6Chapter Five — Toil and Trouble
- 7Chapter Six — What the Doctor Ordered
- 8Chapter Seven — Calvin Coolidge’s Town Meeting
- 9Chapter Eight — Dwight Morrow Advances the Throttle
- 10Chapter Nine — The Gospel According to Aunt Lucy
- 11Chapter Ten — The Take-off
- 12Chapter Eleven — A Lone Eagle Sets the Standard
- 13Chapter Twelve — A Change in Status
- 14Chapter Thirteen — A Salt’s Solution
- 15Chapter Fourteen — Germ of a Big Idea
- 16Chapter Fifteen — Creation of Strategic Concept
- 17Chapter Sixteen — Maneuver for Position
- 18Chapter Seventeen — Frigate Birds
- 19Chapter Eighteen — Another Turning
- 20Chapter Nineteen — Necessity, the Mother of Creation
- 21Chapter Twenty — Igor Sikorsky Spans Two Gaps
- 22Chapter Twenty-One — The Courage of Conviction
- 23Chapter Twenty-Two — Review of Some Fundamentals
- 24Chapter Twenty-Three — A Yankee Peddler
- 25Chapter Twenty-Four — A Chill Sets in
- 26Chapter Twenty-Five — An Unfavorable Climate
- 27Chapter Twenty-Six — A Spark Is Struck
- 28Chapter Twenty-Seven — For What Is a Man Profited?
- 29Chapter Twenty-Eight — Off the Beam
- 30Chapter Twenty-Nine — For Survival
- 31Chapter Thirty — Toward Public Inquiry
- 32Chapter Thirty-One — Before the Bar of Public Opinion
- 33Chapter Thirty-Two — The Hand on the Stick
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