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Austin, Cleared for Takeoff: Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 14)
Austin Cleared for Takeoff Aviators Businessmen and the Growth of an American City - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 14
Author: Kenneth B. Ragsdale
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292702684
ISBN-10: 029270268X
Publication Date: 8/1/2004
Pages: 286
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Type: Paperback
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