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Full-Text Articles in Aviation and Space Education
In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots Of Early Aviation, Fred Erisman
In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots Of Early Aviation, Fred Erisman
Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Aviation (1925–1940). Earhart and her contemporaries, however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots whose activities reached …
Curated Exhibit Price Of War: Advances In Military Medicine, Laura J. Hall
Curated Exhibit Price Of War: Advances In Military Medicine, Laura J. Hall
Posters and Presentations
The Price of War: Advances in Military Medicine exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, explored the significant medical innovations arising from wartime, with a special focus on New Mexico's contributions. The exhibit highlighted the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos National Labs and the Trinity Site, the post-war work of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, and the pioneering efforts of Dr. Randy Lovelace in space medicine. On display from April 1, 2017, to March 17, 2020, it documented key medical advancements, from field surgical installations in World War II to modern prosthetics and regenerative medicine, showing how …
Ascending Higher: The Story Of Aviation At Western, Tom Thinnes Sr., Steve Jones, Gil Sinclair, Raymond Thompson
Ascending Higher: The Story Of Aviation At Western, Tom Thinnes Sr., Steve Jones, Gil Sinclair, Raymond Thompson
All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors
Western Michigan University College of Aviation celebrates 75 years of aviation education. From modest beginnings in 1939, our curriculum has expanded to offer degrees in aviation flight science, aviation management and operations, and aviation maintenance technology. We currently have a fleet of advanced training aircraft, modern facilities in Battle Creek and more than 740 undergraduate students in the program.
With this book, we take a look back. We celebrate the visionaries of the past who helped us realize our current successes. We commemorate the events and advancements in our storied aviation program. And we look to the bright future that …