Dan Hagedorn, senior curator with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle and former adjunct curator for Latin American Aviation for the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, is the author of fourteen previous books including Air Arsenal North America.

Myths and Legends
Pioneers
1914-1918
Airlines, Air Wars, and Foreign Missions
Yankee Influences: Defense Aid and Lend-Lease
World War II
The Postwar Boom
The American Republics Projects and the Rio Pact
The Cold War and Beyond.

"A highlight reel of first flights, followed by a delineation of Latin America's place in the aviation world."