Flight Today and Tomorrow by Margarett O. Hyde
- Foundation date
01 January 1962
FLIGHT TODAY AND
TOMORROW
Revised Edition
By Margaret O. Hyde
Foreword by Glenn O. Blough
Professor of Education,
University of Maryland
Illustrated by CLIFFORD GEARY
The speed of today's planes and the way in which they are bringing the
far reaches of the world closer together is emphasized in the new
edition of this highly successful book.
Margaret O. Hyde has added material that describes in detail the Strategic
Air Command in action, as well as such planes as the B-58 Hustler, the
X-15 rocket plane, and the B-52H. United States missiles for defense, such as popular Minuteman and the Polaris, are also covered in this updated edition, which includes new information on man in space.
In addition, the revised edition replane, and other material which made the first edition so valuable.
With additional illustrations and other important changes, here is a complete revision of this graphic, scientific book which is full of the importance and excitement of flight.
HITTLESEY HOUSE
FOREWORD
With this revised up-to-date edition of Flight Today
and Tomorrow Margaret Hyde presents an authentic
account of flight and space travel in all of their fasci-
nating aspects. With the addition of new materials on
flight for defense, rockets, space travel and the other
aspects of flight now and in the future, the author capi-
talizes on our interest and satisfies our curiosity. We
experience the real feeling of flight, for we are placed
in an airplane where we watch the pilot's every move.
We fly through the overcast and land by instruments.
We take a trip in a jetliner and go out into space in
a rocket ship of tomorrow.
Space ships and jet propulsion fire the imagination
of today's youth, and well they might. For who knows
what developments tomorrow will bring? Even since
the first edition of this book appeared, much has hap-
pened, and as the author says: we live in a world which
is shrinking beneath the wings of an airplane. She
focuses her attention on this world as it is and as it
may change during the life of today's readers. Here
indeed is a book to delight young and old who want
knowledge of present aircraft and a scientific forecast
of the future.
Glenn O. Blough
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Margaret O. Hyde is the author of the Edison Award science book, ANIMAL CLOCKS AND COMPASSES, as well as many other stimulating and fascinating books for young people.
After receiving a master's degree from Columbia University, she was a Science Consultant at the Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia.
She has also been head of the Science Department at the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and a lecturer in elementary education at
Temple University.
Mrs. Hyde's other books for young
people include: ANIMAL CLOCKS AND COMPASSES; ATOMS TODAY AND TOMORROW, New Rev. Ed.: DRIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW ; EXPLORING EARTH AND SPACE, New Rev. Ed.; FROM SUBMARINES TO SATELLITES; MEDICINE IN ACTION; OFF INTO SPACE!; PLANTS TODAY AND TOMORROW; THIS CROWDED PLANET; and she and her husband
have collaborated on WHERE SPEED IS KING, Rev. Ed
