Flying Empires
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Adventurous Empires
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Author : Phillip E. Sims
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-01-19
Adventurous Empires written by Phillip E. Sims and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-19 with History categories.
This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. Imperial Airways were expanding their network to the furthermost outposts of the British Empire, whilst laying down the principles of scheduled airline operation.This is the tale of the realization of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.
Flying Empires
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Author : Brian Cassidy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Flying Empires written by Brian Cassidy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Air mail service categories.
Flying Boats Of The Empire
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Author : Richard Knott
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 2011
Flying Boats Of The Empire written by Richard Knott and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
This is a fascinating account of the age of Empire flying boats, whose story began in July 1936 with a reassuringly trouble-free test flight on Kent's River Medway. Within ten years, however, this last word in luxury was to become redundant, spurned by the post-war age. The story is a dramatic and human one. It tells of slow, meandering flights across the Empire, swooping down on sun-warmed stretches of water for luncheon and tea. But it also describes misadventure and disaster, with flying boats crashing with unnerving regularity. The characters involved in the Empire's story demonstrate its breadth, they include: Winston Churchill; Terence Rattigan (the playwright); Sir John Reith (who chaired both the BBC and Imperial Airways); Don Bennett (the wartime Pathfinder); and the doomed Duke of Kent. The Empire's magnificent military sibling, the Sunderland, is also featured and the book illuminates some less well known areas of the war, for example, the Norwegian campaign of 1940 and Australia's "Pearl Harbor." Extensively researched--drawing on personal letters and diaries, government papers, contemporary newspapers, and archive material from Imperial Airways and its successors--this book reveals all about the Empire flying boat and the people who designed, flew, and traveled in them.
Empires Of The Sky
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Author : Alexander Rose
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Empires Of The Sky written by Alexander Rose and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with History categories.
The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg. “Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when mere mortals learned to fly.”—Keith O’Brien, The New York Times At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements. And it was the airship—not the airplane—that led the way. In the glittery 1920s, the count’s brilliant protégé, Hugo Eckener, achieved undreamed-of feats of daring and skill, including the extraordinary Round-the-World voyage of the Graf Zeppelin. At a time when America’s airplanes—rickety deathtraps held together by glue, screws, and luck—could barely make it from New York to Washington, D.C., Eckener’s airships serenely traversed oceans without a single crash, fatality, or injury. What Charles Lindbergh almost died doing—crossing the Atlantic in 1927—Eckener had effortlessly accomplished three years before the Spirit of St. Louis even took off. Even as the Nazis sought to exploit Zeppelins for their own nefarious purposes, Eckener built his masterwork, the behemoth Hindenburg—a marvel of design and engineering. Determined to forge an airline empire under the new flagship, Eckener met his match in Juan Trippe, the ruthlessly ambitious king of Pan American Airways, who believed his fleet of next-generation planes would vanquish Eckener’s coming airship armada. It was a fight only one man—and one technology—could win. Countering each other’s moves on the global chessboard, each seeking to wrest the advantage from his rival, the struggle for mastery of the air was a clash not only of technologies but of business, diplomacy, politics, personalities, and the two men’s vastly different dreams of the future. Empires of the Sky is the sweeping, untold tale of the duel that transfixed the world and helped create our modern age.
Empire Flying Boat Manual
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Author : Brian Cassidy
language : en
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Empire Flying Boat Manual written by Brian Cassidy and has been published by Haynes Publishing UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Transportation categories.
NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Short 'C' Class Empire flying boats were designed in 1934 to implement the Empire Air Mail Scheme. They were operated by Imperial Airways (forerunner of British Airways), QANTAS and Tasman Empire Airways, carrying letter mail throughout the British Empire and Dominions. Small numbers of passengers and freight were also carried. With privileged access to the British Airways Heritage Collection, author Brian Cassidy describes the genesis and anatomy of the Empire boats, their service career, operation and maintenance of the Empires, and the experience of travelling by flying boat in the 1930s.
Empire Flying Boat Manual
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Author : Brian Cassidy
language : en
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Empire Flying Boat Manual written by Brian Cassidy and has been published by Haynes Publishing UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Transportation categories.
The Short C Class Empire flying boats were designed in 1934 to implement the Empire Air Mail Scheme, carrying un-surcharged letter mail throughout the British Empire and Dominions between the terminals at Southampton, Durban and Sydney – later continuing to Auckland, New Zealand. Some of the payload was also available for small numbers of passengers and freight. Short Brothers built forty-two – nearly forty-three – Empire flying boats at their works on the river Medway at Rochester in Kent. The 43rd was nearly three-quarters complete when it was scrapped. Sixteen of the original 42 Empires survived the war, to be broken up for scrap. The very last Empire ‘boat remained as a landlocked exhibit in Auckland until it, too, was hauled off for scrapping sometime in 1954.
Cultures And Caricatures Of British Imperial Aviation
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Author : Gordon Pirie
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-01
Cultures And Caricatures Of British Imperial Aviation written by Gordon Pirie and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with Transportation categories.
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.
Sky As Frontier
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Author : David T. Courtwright
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2005
Sky As Frontier written by David T. Courtwright and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.
Empire Of The Air
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Author : Jenifer Van Vleck
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Empire Of The Air written by Jenifer Van Vleck and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspired Americans to reimagine their nation’s place within the world. Now, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States’ rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to carry and deliver American power across the globe and to sell the very idea of the “American Century” to the public at home and abroad. Invented on American soil and widely viewed as a symbol of national greatness, the airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States “to infinity,” as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from the influence of Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire—an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America’s sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America’s control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.
Empires Of The Sky
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Author : Anthony Sampson
language : en
Publisher: New York : Random House
Release Date : 1984
Empires Of The Sky written by Anthony Sampson and has been published by New York : Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Transportation categories.