Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America

by Alan Meyer

The inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation.

In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421418584
• ISBN13: 9781421418582
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher