Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-05
Format: Online - approximately 663 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: McCaffrey, Ronald W.
Article Excerpt
Inside the Iron Works: How Grumman's Glory Days Faded. By George M. Skurla and William H. Gregory. Annapolis Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Photographs. Index, Bibliography. Pp. xiv, 225. $32.95 ISBN: 1-55750-329-X
This book provides an inside view of the triumphs and disappointments of America's onetime top aerospace company. Its thirteen chapters define how the company got started, grew through World War II into the Cold War era, and faded from its glory days as the Cold War ended. Grumman's former president and chairman, George Skurla, and William Gregory, a former editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology, trace...
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