http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:19:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-32404 Airminded · Airmindedness: a reading list Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:53:14 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-32404 [...] Earlier this summer, I read several studies of national airmindedness, which inspired two previous posts. By way of a coda, here’s a reading list on airmindedness, comprising these works and others I am aware of, along with some scattered thoughts as to what it all means. [...] [...] Earlier this summer, I read several studies of national airmindedness, which inspired two previous posts. By way of a coda, here’s a reading list on airmindedness, comprising these works and others I am aware of, along with some scattered thoughts as to what it all means. [...]

]]> http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-26357 Airminded · The Scareship Age Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:39:04 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-26357 [...] So, this is where Joseph Corn’s idea about the essential difference in the popular response to aviation between Britain and America comes into play. Americans were essentially optimistic about the coming of flight. In seeing airships that weren’t actually there, they were affirming their faith in the beneficial nature of aviation, and in their nation’s ability to master it. But when Britons saw airships that weren’t there, they were projecting their fears of foreign invasion and domination onto the night sky. Very early on, it seems, the British learnt to associate aircraft with danger, not opportunity. [...] [...] So, this is where Joseph Corn’s idea about the essential difference in the popular response to aviation between Britain and America comes into play. Americans were essentially optimistic about the coming of flight. In seeing airships that weren’t actually there, they were affirming their faith in the beneficial nature of aviation, and in their nation’s ability to master it. But when Britons saw airships that weren’t there, they were projecting their fears of foreign invasion and domination onto the night sky. Very early on, it seems, the British learnt to associate aircraft with danger, not opportunity. [...]

]]> http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-12513 Brett Holman Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:10:54 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/12/05/winged-gospels/#comment-12513 Scott Palmer has a somewhat different take on <em>The Winged Gospel</em> at <a href="http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2006/12/08/gospels-of-flight/" rel="nofollow">Dictatorship of the Air</a>. Scott Palmer has a somewhat different take on The Winged Gospel at Dictatorship of the Air.

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