A Place in the Sky: A History of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and Aviation in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1919-2001 | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Ann Mogus
Creators: David Wilmes, Richard David Wissolik
Publisher: Saint Vincent College
New (7) Used (5) from $43.85
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 225
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 1885851170
Dewey Decimal Number: 387.7360974881
EAN: 9781885851178
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| Customer Reviews:
 More than just a local history October 20, 2004
Richard Wissolik (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book, only the third written about aviation in Pennsylvania, is a splendid coffe table history. Contained in it are many pages and illustrations concerning the All American Aviation air-mail pick up routes from 1939-1949, numerous news clippings concerning the history of early aviation in Pennsylvania, form C.P. Mayer's commercial airfield in Bridgeville, to Cliff Ball's Bettis Field. There is also a chapter, together with photos, about the founding of the OX-5 Club, now an international organization, at Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1956. Featured in the books are Charles Carroll, Raymond Elder, Carl Strickler, Lou Strickler, Russ Brinkley, Lloyd Santmeyer, Elmer Ashbaugh, Clyde Hauger, and other prominent pioneers of aviation.
A great oral history, with lots of pictures April 21, 2002
Pen Name? (Pittsburgh, PA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great coffee table book for all of those interested in the history of flight or the history or Western Pennsylvania. I helped to transcribe a lot of the tapes of interviews for this book and these guys love to tell stories about their early days in the airfields.
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