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February 1997

Flying the Multinational Skies

Turbulent Skies: The History of Commerical Aviation

By Theodore L. Gaillared, Jr.

In Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation, freelance aviation and science writer T.A. Heppenheimer traces the bumpy flight path of the U.S. airline industry's development-from the people who took the lead to the innovative technologies that allowed them to do so; from the early years of a cocoon-like cartel to the chaotic free-for-all following deregulation. Along the way, the author offers exciting stories of pioneers and visionaries like Charles Lindbergh, whose 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic fanned interest in passenger flying; Walter Brown and other postmasters general, who awarded lucrative subsidies to air mail routes, thereby encouraging airlines to grow; and American Airlines's C.R. Smith, who spurred Donald Douglas to manufacture the DC-3, the craft that-as Smith himself would say-"freed the airlines from complete dependence on mail pay. It was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers."

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