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9780292701670

Austin, Cleared for Takeoff

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  • ISBN13:

    9780292701670

  • ISBN10:

    0292701675

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-08-19
  • Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
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Summary

Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands who mobbed Charles A. Lindbergh and The Spirit of St. Louis in Paris sixteen years later. Though no one that day in Austin could foresee all the changes that would result from manned flight, people here - as in cities and towns across the United States - realized that a new era was opening, and they greeted it with all-out enthusiasm.This popularly written history tells the story of aviation in Austin from 1911 to the opening of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 1999. Kenneth Ragsdale covers all the significant developments, beginning with military aviation activities during World War I and continuing through the barnstorming era of the 1920s, the inauguration of airmail service in 1928 and airline service in 1929, and the dedication of the first municipal airport in 1930. He also looks at the University of Texas's role in training pilots during World War II, the growth of commercial and military aviation in the post-war period, and the struggle over airport expansion that occupied the last decades of the twentieth century. Throughout, he shows how aviation and the city grew together and supported each other, which makes the Austin aviation experience a case study of the impact of aviation on urban communities nationwide.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(16)
Cal, Glean, Benny, and the Origins of Austin Aviation
17(11)
Austin, the University of Texas, and World War I
28(20)
Barnstormers, Businessmen, and High Hopes for the Future
48(21)
A Bright Side of the Great Depression
69(24)
War Training Returns to the University
93(24)
An Era of Peace and the Growth of Private Flying
117(23)
Mueller, Marfa, and the Gathering Storm
140(29)
Era of Indecision
169(19)
City on a Tightwire
188(21)
Conclusion 209(4)
Notes 213(34)
Bibliography 247(8)
Index 255

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