Research Catalog

Title

The nation's hangar : aircraft treasures of the Smithsonian from the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center / F. Robert van der Linden.

Author

National Air and Space Museum.

Publication

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Van der Linden, F. Robert.

Description

255 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian offers a fascinating textual and visual history of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft. The Nation's Hangar charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. F. Robert Van Der Linden, a Smithsonian curator and leading expert on aviation history, explains the fascinating stories behind aviation's great technological advances and provides historic and social context that highlights the many ways in which these innovations have changed the course of human history. The Nation's Hangar is also a visual delight. The Smithsonian aircraft collection has never looked so compelling and sleek. The Nation's Hangar is a must-have for that fly boy or fly girl in your flight pattern"--

Subject

• Airplanes > Catalogs
• National Air and Space Museum > Catalogs
• Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center > Catalogs
• TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General
• TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History
• TRANSPORTATION / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A new beginning: building the Udvar-Hazy Center -- Restoration and conservation -- The early years of flight -- The golden age of flight -- The Second World War -- Air warfare in the Pacific -- Civil aviation in the postwar years -- Postwar military aviation and vertical flight.

ISBN

• 9781588343161 (pbk.)
• 1588343162 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011017426

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library