Austin, Cleared for Takeoff: Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale

Austin, Cleared for Takeoff: Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City

Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback)

Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale

286 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pil...

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