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Realizing the dream of flight : biographical essays in honor of the centennial of flight, 1903-2003 / edited by Virginia P. Dawson and Mark D. Bowles.

Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2005.

Aeronautics -- Biography.

Aeronautics -- History.

NASA history series.

NASA SP (Series) ; 4112.

xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Bessie Coleman : race and gender realities behind aviation dreams / Amy Sue Bix -- She flew for women : Amelia Earhart, gender, and American aviation / Susan Ware -- Sharing a vision : Juan Trippe, Charles Lindbergh, and the development of international air transport / William M. Leary -- The autogiro flies the mail! Eddie Rickenbacker, Johnny Miller, Eastern Airlines, and experimental airmail service with rotorcraft, 1939-1940 / W. David Lewis -- Donald Douglas : from aeronautics to aerospace / Roger Bilstein -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American hero / Alan L. Gropman -- Curtis E. LeMay and the ascent of American strategic airpower / Tami Biddle -- Willy Ley : chronicler of the early space age / Tom D. Crouch -- Who was Hugh Dryden and why should we care? / Michael Gorn -- Wernher von Braun : a visionary as engineer and manager / Andrew J. Dunar -- Godfather to the astronauts : Robert Gilruth and the birth of human spaceflight / Edward J. Pershey.

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