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The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (1951) White, John H. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America (Indiana UP, 2013). xxvi + 512 pp. Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad (Atlantic Books Ltd, 2012), Popular history. Wright, Robert E.
The United States has an extensive air transportation network. In 2013, there were 86 airports in the U.S. that annually handled over 1,000,000 passengers each. [1] The civil airline industry is entirely privately owned and has been largely deregulated since 1978, while most major airports are publicly owned. [2]
ATA Spec 100 [1] ' and iSpec 2200 [2] are information standards for aviation maintenance and flight operations [3] published by Airlines for America (formerly Air Transport Association). [ 4 ] These standards provide recommended specifications for the content, structure and deliverables to meet communication requirements [physical, electronic ...
Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, jet aircraft, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, hang gliders, parachutes, or anything else that can sustain flight. [1] Use of air travel began vastly increasing in the 1930s: the number of Americans flying went from about 6,000 in 1930 to 450,000 by 1934 and to 1.2 ...
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Five days after Pearl Harbor, Capt. C. H. Schildhauer presented a detailed plan for a naval air transport program to the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox. Knox immediate approved the plan and the Naval Air Transport Service was created. This was a tall order since the largest transport operated by the Navy at this time were four R2Ds (DC-2).
Transport in Central America (11 C) * North America transport-related lists (10 C, 6 P) A. Aviation in North America (13 C, 2 P) D. Transport disasters in North ...
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