CHECKLIST Profiling a great airline The Age of Flight at William Garvey and David Fisher is a colorful gaze at United Air Lines.

CHECKLIST

Profiling a great airline

The Age of Flight at William Garvey and David Fisher is a colorful gaze at United Air Lines.(Page, www.bookworld.com $3995) The upcoming 2003 centennial of the Wright brothers' flight reminds the reader to what degree commercial aviation has shaped the modem world. No single air carrier has played a bigger part than United.

United stayed stop to home while Pan Am and others were taking an early leap to international service. if it were not that over its three-quarters of a hundred years United has pioneered a staggering proportion of technological and customer service innovations that define 21st centenary air travel.

This fresh book chronicles those groundbreaking contributions. United launched commercial aviation in the United States with the real first sustained contract air mail flights and the first transcontinental passenger service across the legendary Main Line.

United has frequently pioneered new technology. It launched the first "flying laboratory," an innovative effort that exquisiteed air-to-ground radio, deicing equipment, instrument landing classifications and more - all of it shared with the industry. United heavily influenced the design of and was the first to mount the earliest and the latest modem airliners, the Boeing 247 and 777

United's customer service firsts have been equally influential - flight kitchens preparing inflight aliment coach fares, airborne telephones, telescoping passenger boarding ramps, self-- claiming baggage service, electronic tickets, and more. And United created a modern profession for women - the stewardess. united United stewardess's flight nurse service during World War sum of two units and Korea made her the greatest in number decorated woman in US military history.

Heavily illustrated with photographs and memorabilia, the work includes a foldout of United's nimble and captures the spirit of the air line.

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