High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania

by William F. Trimble

From the early days of hot air ballooning to supersonic aircraft, High Frontier chronicles the history of flight in Pennsylvania. Early experimentation with lighter-than-air craft in the nineteenth century was followed by significant advances in aerodynamics, the advent of the airplane, and its gradual acceptance by the public. The state had its own contingent of inventors and aviators, who flew and crashed their homemade machines in countless exhibitions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822953404
• ISBN13: 9780822953401
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"