To Fill the Skies with Pilots: The Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1939-1946 (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560989181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. By charting the hi
"Important aviation" according to Carol Moseley. How this played into getting pilots trained and encourage our youth to think about flying.. Final Flight said An important contribution to WW II history books.. A good history of a little-known, discussed, or studied aspect of pilot training before World War II. The account is rather dry and academic but still an important contribution to the history of the war.Reviewed by Peter Stekel, author of, Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra.
. Dominick A. Pisano is the former chair of the Aeronautics Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum
Pisano is the former chair of the Aeronautics Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. About the Author Dominick A.