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- Title
Early Aviation in Rocket City, U.S.A.
- Authors
Trimble, William F.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the early stages of aviation in Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville is a city with inseparable ties to the aerospace industry. Since the World War II, it has ridden military and civilian rockets to prosperity and worldwide recognition. Historians have lavished attention on the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. At the dawn of a new century the dream of flight lured amateur experimenters throughout the country to design and build heavier-than-air flying machines. One of them was William Lafayette Quick, who may have been the state's first aviator.
- Subjects
HUNTSVILLE (Ala.); ALABAMA; UNITED States; COMMERCIAL aeronautics; AERONAUTICAL flights; AEROSPACE industries; AIR pilots
- Publication
Alabama Review, 2004, Vol 57, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0002-4341
- Publication type
Article