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The Story of American Aviation

by Jim Ray

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Epigraph
  4. 4The Beginnings of American Aviation
  5. 5Aviation in America in Its Early Days
  6. 6First Army Airplane
  7. 7America Becomes Air-Minded
  8. 8The Army and Navy Spread Their Wings
  9. 9United States Military and Naval Aviation World War I
  10. 10The First — Transatlantic — Flight
  11. 11Men and Machines World War I
  12. 12The First Air Mail
  13. 13Precision Bombing Is Born
  14. 14The U. S. Navy’s First Aircraft Carrier
  15. 15The First Flight Around the World
  16. 16Air Progress
  17. 17America’s First All-Metal Transport
  18. 18Better Power for America’s Airplanes
  19. 19Record-Making Fokker Tri-Motor Transport Plane
  20. 20Air Transport Grows
  21. 21Donald Douglas’ — Dream Comes True
  22. 22Safety in Flight
  23. 23Luxury Airliners and Skysleepers Make Air Travel an Accepted Fact
  24. 24Pan American Clippers Conquer Pacific Skies
  25. 25Pan American Clipper Inaugurates America’s First Transatlantic Air…
  26. 26Private Planes
  27. 27Superchargers and Super-Airliners
  28. 28Air Power for World War II
  29. 29Naval — Aviation 1922-1935
  30. 30Shipboard Fighters
  31. 31Battleship of the Air
  32. 32Naval Aviation — Gets Ready
  33. 33The U. S. Navy’s First Long-Range — Flying Boats
  34. 34Technical Progress in the U. S. Army Air — Corps in the Thirties
  35. 35Army Attack Aviation and Training
  36. 36Super-Fighter
  37. 37Man-Made Thunderbolts Rip Wide a Path to Victory
  38. 38Superfortress
  39. 39Naval Aviation in the Early Months of World War II
  40. 40The U. S. Navy’s Deadliest Fighter Plane
  41. 41Dive-Bomber
  42. 42Our Flying Navy
  43. 43Aërial Armada
  44. 44Postwar Aviation

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