Louisiana entrepreneurs and pilots were among the first to advance the idea of air travel, improve aircraft design, and usher in the Golden Age of Aviation. They developed aerial crop dusting, initiated airmail routes, pushed the limits of stunt flying, and entertained spectators with air races. With over twenty years of experience in the aviation industry, pilot and freelance writer Vincent P. Caire chronicles the state's contribution to the history of flight in nearly 200 vintage and contemporary photographs, many never-before published. Photos of early aviation pioneer John Moisant, air racing champion General James Doolittle, barnstormer Roscoe Turner, and C.E. Woolman, creator of Delta Airlines, reflect Louisiana's zeal for aeronautics.A captivating visual tour spanning one-hundred years, Louisiana Aviation captures the state's contribution to air history, evident in Louisiana's seventy airports, 5,000 aircraft, 7,000 pilots, and numerous airshows still in operation today.

Records and memorabilia of aviation in Louisiana, with much material on the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Inc., of Patterson and New Orleans, La. The collection consists mainly of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, aircraft catalogs, business records, and miscellany.

Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the state of Louisiana. Includes Internet links to Web sites.

Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concerns continue to be raised about the nation¿s system for protecting commercial aviation. One layer of the aviation security system involves the ability of the fed. gov¿t. to respond to actual or potential security threats while a commercial aircraft is in flight. This report examines in-flight security threats & current fed. efforts to respond collaboratively to them. It is an unclassified version of a previously classified report, & summarizes the overall findings & recommendations while omitting sensitive information about the in-flight security threat resolution process, including specific agency roles & responsibilities & coordination challenges that have occurred & steps agencies have taken to address them.

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