Slipstream: The Autobiography of an Air Craftsman
by Eugene E. Wilson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wilson, Eugene E., 1887-1974
- Title
- Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman
- Original Publication
- United States: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950.
- Credits
- Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell, Benedictine University and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VG: Naval science: Minor services of navies
- Subject
- Aircraft industry -- United States -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 70689
- Release Date
- May 3, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.SLIPSTREAM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AIR CRAFTSMAN
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.Preface
- 7.Contents
- 8.Untitled
- 9.CHAPTER ONE It’s Anybody’s Fight
- 10.CHAPTER TWO The Power Plant, the Heart of an Airplane
- 11.CHAPTER THREE Its Vital Spark
- 12.CHAPTER FOUR A Backward Art
- 13.CHAPTER FIVE Toil and Trouble
- 14.CHAPTER SIX What the Doctor Ordered
- 15.CHAPTER SEVEN Calvin Coolidge’s Town Meeting
- 16.CHAPTER EIGHT Dwight Morrow Advances the Throttle
- 17.CHAPTER NINE The Gospel According to Aunt Lucy
- 18.CHAPTER TEN The Take-off
- 19.CHAPTER ELEVEN A Lone Eagle Sets the Standard
- 20.CHAPTER TWELVE A Change in Status
- 21.CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Salt’s Solution
- 22.CHAPTER FOURTEEN Germ of a Big Idea
- 23.CHAPTER FIFTEEN Creation of Strategic Concept
- 24.CHAPTER SIXTEEN Maneuver for Position
- 25.CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Frigate Birds
- 26.CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Another Turning
- 27.CHAPTER NINETEEN Necessity, the Mother of Creation
- 28.CHAPTER TWENTY Igor Sikorsky Spans Two Gaps
- 29.CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Courage of Conviction
- 30.CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Review of Some Fundamentals
- 31.CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A Yankee Peddler
- 32.CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A Chill Sets In
- 33.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE An Unfavorable Climate
- 34.CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A Spark Is Struck
- 35.CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN For What Is a Man Profited?
- 36.CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Off the Beam
- 37.CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE For Survival
- 38.CHAPTER THIRTY Toward Public Inquiry
- 39.CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Before the Bar of Public Opinion
- 40.CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO The Hand on the Stick
- 41.Index — Transcriber’s Notes
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