EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Realizing the Dream of Flight is a collection of biographical essays presented as part of the Realizing the Dream of Flight Symposium, held in celebration of the Centennial of Flight. The book contains thriteen essays examining the lives of aerospace pioneers through the lens of biography..

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.
-INTRODUCTION.
-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
-CHAPTER 1 Bessie Coleman: Race and Gender Realities Behind Aviation Dreams. Amy Sue Bix.
-CHAPTER 2 She Flew for Women: Amelia Earhart, Gender, and American Aviation. Susan Ware.
-CHAPTER 3 Sharing a Vision: Juan Trippe, Charles Lindbergh, and the Development of International Air Transport. William Leary.
-CHAPTER 4 The Autogiro Flies the Mail! Eddie Rickenbacker, Johnny Miller, Eastern Airlines, and Experimental Airmail Service with Rotorcraft, 1939-1940. David Lewis.
-CHAPTER 5 Donald Douglas: From Aeronautics to Aerospace. Roger Bilstein.
-CHAPTER 6 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American Hero. Alan L. Gropman.
-CHAPTER 7 Curtis E. LeMay and the Ascent of American Strategic Airpower. Tami Biddle.
-CHAPTER 8 Willy Ley: Chronicler of the Early Space Age. Tom D. Crouch.
-CHAPTER 9 Who Was Hugh Dryden and Why Should We Care? Michael Gorn.
-CHAPTER 10 Wernher von Braun: A Visionary as Engineer and Manager. Andrew J. Dunar.
-CHAPTER 11 Godfather to the Astronauts: Robert Gilruth and the Birth of Human Spaceflight. Roger Launius.
-CHAPTER 12 Celebrating the Invention of Flight in a Hands-On Way: Replicating the 1902 Experimental Glider Flights of the Wright Brothers. Edward J. Pershey.
-ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.