Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On

by Stuart Banner

Book Overview

In the summer of 1900, a zeppelin stayed aloft for a full eighteen minutes above Lake Constance and mankind found itself at the edge of a new world. Where many saw hope and the dawn of another era, one man saw a legal conundrum. Charles C. Moore, an obscure New York lawyer, began an inquiry that Stuart Banner returns to over a century later: in the age of airplanes, who can lay claim to the heavens?

The debate that ensued in the early twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674030826
• ISBN13: 9780674030824
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"