Annotated Bibliography
Freeman, R. (n.d.). The pioneering years: commercial aviation 1920 - 1930. Retrieved
from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/
1920s/Tran1.htm
This essay provides a focused perspective on the role of the Contract Air Mail
Act established by the government in 1925. It includes the cities that established
private airmail companies who later become large transportation industries. It
addresses the national aviation board that President Calvin Coolidge appoints to
create the Air Commerce Act of 1926 and the navigational instruments that were
developed because of this Act. The essay includes the uncomfortable and long
flights that passengers had to endure due to the early design of airplanes and the
increasing number of passengers that began to fly from 1926 to 1929 (Freeman).
Narration of pan american history. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.panamair.org/
multimedia/Track 26.mp3
The narrator describes the aviation of Pan American History from the beginning
days to the later days of Jet Aviation. He includes the luxuries of flight that
passengers experienced as they flew. Pan Am was the first air line to cross the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it was also the first to make a round the world trip.
Because of the airlines experience it was the most needed airline to provide
materials and army men during WWII. After WWII, the airline developed the first
Commercial Jet plane. The narrator describes the Jet experience ("Narration of
pan," 2011).
Preston, E. (n.d.). The federal aviation administration and its predecessor agencies.
Retrieved from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Government_Role/
FAA_History/POL8.htm
This essay describes the development of departments that have controlled and
created regulations for aviation through the decades. It expands on President
Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to create two agencies to ensure certification for
airman and aircraft, safety, development, investigation and economic regulations.
It expounds on the organizations that have helped to develop the aviation
security that has been mandated in today’s society due to the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks (Preston).
Rumerman, J. (n.d.). Commercial flight in the 1930s. Retrieved from http://www.
centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/passenger_xperience/
Tran2.htm
This essay describes the comfort of flying during the early and late 1930’s. It tells
of the first male stewards and the first female stewardesses who were nurses. It
includes the processes of “phoning” the airline office to purchase and reserve a
seat on the plane and how the start of the credit card industry began. It provides
statistics for the increase of passengers from 1932 to 1941, along with the
statistics of passengers still traveling long-distances by train (Rumerman).
Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum. (2007). America by air. Retrieved from
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal102/Americabyair/index.cfm
This educational web page explores the discovery of airplane designs,
transformations, and uses from 1914 to the present day. It conveys multiple
stories from a Pilot, Stewardess and a traveling family member during the 1950’s.
It provides recent documentation of news worthy discoveries, including the
Boeing 787, navigational systems and new-generational GE Turbofan Engine
designs. The web page provides a map with multiple time periods (early 1920s,
1930s, 1940s-1950s, 1960s-1970s, and 1980s to present). Each time periods
provides information about the flight that would take place from New York to San
Francisco, the travel time, cost and additional information about what a
passenger would experience during the flight ("America by air," 2007).