About the Author

Janet R. Daly Bednarek is currently an associate professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. She wrote America's Airports, the first title in the Centennial of Flight Series, published by Texas A&M University Press. Her husband and coauthor, Michael H. Bednarek, works as an acquisition manager with Dynamics Research Company. In 1988 he completed a twenty-year active duty USAF military career as an aeronautical engineer and program manager.

Reviews

"Dreams of Flight is a timely, concise, and readable history of general aviation in the United States over the last hundred years by two authors who are themselves pilots. . . an important work that highlights general aviation's important contribution to American's growth and development during the twentieth century. . . Dreams of Flight is a welcome addition to the American aviation history, and its lucid prose makes it accessible to a wide audience, from aviation enthusiasts to scholars and students."--Dr. Richard Byers, professor of history at North Georgia College and State University