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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Photos
Introduction
Benjamin Franklin: On the First Balloons
"Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut" (Mary H. Myers): from Aerial Adventures of Carlotta; or, Sky-Larking in Cloudland
A. I. Root: from Gleanings in Bee Culture
Henry Helm Clayton: from A Record-Breaking Balloon Voyage
Orville and Wilbur Wright: The Wright Brothers' Aëroplane
Ida M. Tarbell: Flying--A Dream Come True!
Glenn L. Martin: Aviator Tells New Terrors for Armies
Eddie Rickenbacker: Notes on War Experiences
Bogart Rogers: from A Yankee Ace in the RAF
Ernest Hemingway: A Paris-to-Strasburg Flight Shows Living Cubist Picture
Hart Stilwell and Slats Rodgers: Air Circus
J. Herman Banning: The Day I Sprouted Wings
Gilbert Seldes: Transatlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh: from The Spirit of St. Louis
Harry Crosby: from Shadows of the Sun
Hawthorne C. Gray: Eight Miles--Straight Up!
Amelia Earhart: Across
Waldo Frank: from The World from the Air
Ruth Nichols: from Atlantic Takeoff
Francis Vivian Drake: Air Stewardess
Elizabeth M. Bisgood: Twelve Strangers in the Night
Wolfgang Langewiesche: Knapsack of Salvation
Gertrude Stein: from Everybody's Autobiography
Jimmy Collins: from Test Pilot
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Flying Again
John Dos Passos: The Campers at Kitty Hawk
Alma Heflin: from Adventure Was the Compass
Mary Lee Settle: from All the Brave Promises
Alvin Kernan: from Crossing the Line
Ralph Ellison: Flying Home
Bert Stiles: First Mission
Beirne Lay Jr.: from I've Had It
Samuel Hynes: from Flights of Passage
Guy Murchie: from Song of the Sky
William F. Buckley Jr.: Six Freshmen and an Ercoupe
Ernest K. Gann: from Fate Is the Hunter
Chuck Yeager: from Yeager: An Autobiography
James Salter: from The Hunters
Wernher von Braun: from Crossing the Last Frontier
Jonathan Norton Leonard: from Flight into Space
William H. Rankin: from The Man Who Rode the Thunder
Tom Wolfe: from The Right Stuff
Richard Bach: from Stranger to the Ground
John Glenn: from John Glenn: A Memoir
Rinker Buck: from Flight of Passage
Michael Collins: from Carrying the Fire
Jack Broughton: from Thud Ridge
Michael Herr: from Dispatches
Gene Kranz: from Failure Is Not an Option
Norman Mailer: from Of a Fire on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin: from Magnificent Desolation
Gordon Baxter: Big Sky
Diane Ackerman: from On Extended Wings
Sherman Baldwin: The Iron Maiden
Laurence Gonzales: Starduster
Darcy Frey: from Something's Got to Give
William Langewiesche: The Turn
Walter Kirn: from Up in the Air
Mark Bowden: from The Kabul-ki Dance
Chris Jones: Home
Sources and Acknowledgments
Notes on the Illustrations
Index
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