In his 1941 Life magazine editorial proclaiming "The American Century," publisher Henry Luce asserted that Americans should have "the right to go with . . . our ocean-going airplanes where we wish, when we wish, and as we wish" (p. 10). The "Logic of the Air," he later explained, compelled it. In Empire of the Air, Jenifer Van Vleck examines this "logic" and American efforts to extend its commercial aviation globally. Insisting its policies were free of designs on foreign territory or peoples, American ascendency was nevertheless challenged and constrained, Van Vleck argues, not least by foreign resistance.
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机译：出版商亨利·卢斯（Henry Luce）在1941年《生活》杂志的社论中宣称“美国世纪”，认为美国人应该“有权……随心所欲，随心所欲，随心所欲……”（p 10）。他后来解释说，“空中逻辑”迫使它。詹妮弗·范弗莱克（Jenifer Van Vleck）在《空中帝国》中考察了这种“逻辑”和美国在全球范围内扩展其商用航空的努力。范弗莱克认为，坚持自己的政策不受外国领土或人民的束缚，美国的崛起仍然受到挑战和制约，特别是外国抵抗。
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