Slipstream
- Subtitle
- the autobiography of an air craftsman
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Table of contents
1. Front matter2. Preface3. CHAPTER ONE It’s Anybody’s Fight4. CHAPTER TWO The Power Plant, the Heart of an Airplane5. CHAPTER THREE Its Vital Spark6. CHAPTER FOUR A Backward Art7. CHAPTER FIVE Toil and Trouble8. CHAPTER SIX What the Doctor Ordered9. CHAPTER SEVEN Calvin Coolidge’s Town Meeting10. CHAPTER EIGHT Dwight Morrow Advances the Throttle11. CHAPTER NINE The Gospel According to Aunt Lucy12. CHAPTER TEN The Take-off13. CHAPTER ELEVEN A Lone Eagle Sets the Standard14. CHAPTER TWELVE A Change in Status15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Salt’s Solution16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Germ of a Big Idea17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN Creation of Strategic Concept18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Maneuver for Position19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Frigate Birds20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Another Turning21. CHAPTER NINETEEN Necessity, the Mother of Creation22. CHAPTER TWENTY Igor Sikorsky Spans Two Gaps23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Courage of Conviction24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Review of Some Fundamentals25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A Yankee Peddler26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A Chill Sets In27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE An Unfavorable Climate28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A Spark Is Struck29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN For What Is a Man Profited?30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Off the Beam31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE For Survival32. CHAPTER THIRTY Toward Public Inquiry33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Before the Bar of Public Opinion34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO The Hand on the Stick35. Index