MARC DIERIKX is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands. He has written numerous books and articles on air travel, airlines, and airports, including: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, and An Image of Freedom: The Netherlands and the United States, 1945 to the Present.

The author correctly shows how the entwining of technology and public acceptance of the development of range and economy in airlines, together with the lowering of fairs by the introduction of coach/economy class in the late 1950s, followed by the development of intercontinental jets, led to a tremenduos jump in passengers carried. There is no comparable work, for boths its narration and bibliography. Highly recommended. All leves/libraries.

• IntroductionChapter One: Heroics Flying as an Icon of the Modern Age, 1919-1945Chapter Two: Technology Air Transport around the World, 1945-1961Chapter Three USAGE: The Rise and Fall of the Jet Set, 1961-1977Chapter Four EFFECTS: Global Travel for All, 1977Bibliography

MARC DIERIKX is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands. He has written numerous books and articles on air travel, airlines, and airports, including: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, and An Image of Freedom: The Netherlands and the United States, 1945 to the Present.

The author correctly shows how the entwining of technology and public acceptance of the development of range and economy in airlines, together with the lowering of fairs by the introduction of coach/economy class in the late 1950s, followed by the development of intercontinental jets, led to a tremenduos jump in passengers carried. There is no comparable work, for boths its narration and bibliography. Highly recommended. All leves/libraries.

• IntroductionChapter One: Heroics Flying as an Icon of the Modern Age, 1919-1945Chapter Two: Technology Air Transport around the World, 1945-1961Chapter Three USAGE: The Rise and Fall of the Jet Set, 1961-1977Chapter Four EFFECTS: Global Travel for All, 1977Bibliography

MARC DIERIKX is Program Director of Development Cooperation Studies at the Institute of Netherlands History, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague, Netherlands. He has written numerous books and articles on air travel, airlines, and airports, including: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, and An Image of Freedom: The Netherlands and the United States, 1945 to the Present.

The author correctly shows how the entwining of technology and public acceptance of the development of range and economy in airlines, together with the lowering of fairs by the introduction of coach/economy class in the late 1950s, followed by the development of intercontinental jets, led to a tremenduos jump in passengers carried. There is no comparable work, for boths its narration and bibliography. Highly recommended. All leves/libraries.

• IntroductionChapter One: Heroics Flying as an Icon of the Modern Age, 1919-1945Chapter Two: Technology Air Transport around the World, 1945-1961Chapter Three USAGE: The Rise and Fall of the Jet Set, 1961-1977Chapter Four EFFECTS: Global Travel for All, 1977Bibliography