Austin, Cleared for Takeoff: Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City

by Kenneth Baxter 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 of St. Louis in Paris sixteen years later. Though no one that day in Austin could foresee all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029270268X
• ISBN13: 9780292702684
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"