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Speedbird
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Author : Robin Higham
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Speedbird written by Robin Higham and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Transportation categories.
Between 1939 and 1946 BOAC (the British Overseas Airways Corporation) was the nationalised airline of Great Britain - and between 1946 and 1974 as such it exclusively operated all long-haul British flights. With its iconic 'Speedbird' logo and its central role in the glamorous 'jet age' of the 1950s and 1960s, BOAC achieved a near cult-status with admirers around the globe. Yet, to date there has been no comprehensive history of the organisation, covering its structure, fleet and the role it played in the critical events of the age - from World War II to the end of empire, a period when BOAC played a pivotal part in projecting British political power, even as that power was waning. During World War II, BOAC operated a limited wartime service and prepared for the return of commercial flight in the postwar era. But it was in the service of Britain's colonies - and latterly the process of decolonisation - that BOAC achieved its most pivotal role. The development of flight technology enabled much faster connections between Britain and her imperial possessions - as the colonies prepared for independence BOAC ferried diplomats, politicians and colonial administrators between London and the far-flung corners of Africa and Asia in much faster times than had previously been possible. In this book, acclaimed historian Robin Higham presents a unique comprehensive study of BOAC from the early jet travel of the de Havilland Comet and the Vickers VC10 to the dawn of supersonic passenger aviation. Highly illustrated and meticulously researched using previously unseen sources, this book will be essential reading for all aviation enthusiasts and anyone interested in the history of modern Britain.
Speedbird
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Author : Don Hill
language : en
Publisher: Authorhouse UK
Release Date : 2012
Speedbird written by Don Hill and has been published by Authorhouse UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Transportation categories.
Spanning over 40 years in service to a major world airline, (25 of which were spent overseas variously in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East during the war years), this book describes a wayfarer's journey as the author, the son of a British Army Colonel, grew through the challenges that came his way living in exciting times.In Algiers he was even witness to the birth of De Gaulle's 4th republic as the mob rioted beneath his balcony and, 35 mm cinecamera in hand he coolly recorded history in the making! In Accra he even searched the junglefor a lost Comet 1 engine.On his permanent UK return in 1959 he was just in time to usher in the jet age as he raised his growing familyin the UK but was now ideally placed to contribute to resolving the challenges posed by the increasing passenger numbers.Finding himself at the leading edge of the new computer technologies he was able to make a major contribtionto its development.As part of the Management Services Division that was honoured he was able to wear the specially designed 'Queens Award to Industry' logo for his work on the ground breaking Departure Control System globally connected to the London BOADICEA computer.He was even one of the last to fly Concorde !
National Highway Carriers Directory And Routes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
National Highway Carriers Directory And Routes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Aeronautics, Commercial categories.
Cae Oxford Aviation Academy Communications Vfr Ifr
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: CAE Oxford Aviation Academy
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Cae Oxford Aviation Academy Communications Vfr Ifr written by and has been published by CAE Oxford Aviation Academy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Transportation categories.
Poetics Of The Poster
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Author : David H. T. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Poetics Of The Poster written by David H. T. Scott and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Art categories.
This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive strategies that will transform modern advertising. The book shows how this fundamental development is closely related to contemporary developments in the visual arts - in particular Futurism and Art Deco - and reflects the increasing cross-fertilisation and symbiosis between art and graphic design. The book focuses in particular on the way conventional textual strategies - metaphor, metonymy, rebus - are adapted by the modern poster to produce visual or textual/visual equivalents which, through their employment of combined pictorial and linguistic elements maximise their attractive or persuasive power over the viewer/reader. A key aim of the book is to clarify the assumptions on which semiology (the study of signs) is based in the context of modern poster artists' practice. The text/image relation is explored through five chapters focussing on (1) the rhetoric of image/text in general; (2) text and image in airline logos: British Airways and Air France; (3) visual metonymies in boxing posters; (4) text and image in posters expressing speed; (5) text/image in Swiss tourist posters. There are approximately 120 colour illustrations arranged in groups that reflect the different orientations of the chapters.
Express Series English For Aviation
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Author : Sue Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-08
Express Series English For Aviation written by Sue Ellis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Please note that the Print Replica PDF digital version does not contain the audio. English for Aviation is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It has been designed to help students reach ICAO Operational Level 4. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course, or for self-study. English for Aviation will help pilots and air traffic controllers with standard phraseology as well as improve plain English in the skills areas specified by ICAO.
Flying The Big Jets 4th Edition
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Author : Stanley Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Crowood
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Flying The Big Jets 4th Edition written by Stanley Stewart and has been published by Crowood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Transportation categories.
Flying the Big Jets presents the facts that people want to know about the world of the big jets. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? How do the radios work? What aircraft maintenance is required? How often are the tyres changed? What is the life style of a pilot? The answers to these and a thousand other questions are given in sufficient detail to satisfy the most inquisitive of readers. Chapter by chapter the reader is taken gently from the basics of the big jets to the sophistication of the 'glass cockpit' in preparation for the pilot's seat on a Boeing 777 flight from London to Boston. Flying the Big Jets is a comprehensive book that reveals as never before the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot. "Written by a pilot with over 15,000 flying hours on heavy jets during a 30-year career in commercial aviation, this title is a comprehensive text book taking the reader into the 'glass cockpit' of a Boeing 777. It is also a guide to the principles of flight, the art of navigation and meteorology, and an appreciation of the role played by Air Traffic Control in modern airline operations. An absorbing read for that next long-haul flight." WINGSPAN
Speedbird
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Author : JAMES CALUM. CAMPBELL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Speedbird written by JAMES CALUM. CAMPBELL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Empire In The Air
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Author : Chandra D. Bhimull
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-12-12
Empire In The Air written by Chandra D. Bhimull and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with History categories.
Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2019 Sharon Stephens Prize, given by the American Ethnological Society Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed lives along the transatlantic corridor of the African diaspora. Focusing on Britain and its Caribbean colonies, Chandra Bhimull reveals how the black West Indies shaped the development of British Airways. Bhimull offers a unique analysis of early airline travel, illuminating the links among empire, aviation and diaspora, and in doing so provides insights into how racially oppressed people experienced air travel. The emergence of artificial flight revolutionized the movement of people and power, and Bhimull makes the connection between airplanes and the other vessels that have helped make and maintain the African diaspora: the slave ships of the Middle Passage, the tracks of the Underground Railroad, and Marcus Garvey’s black-owned ocean liner. As a new technology, airline travel retained the racialist ideas and practices that were embedded in British imperialism, and these ideas shaped every aspect of how commercial aviation developed, from how airline routes were set, to who could travel easily and who could not. The author concludes with a look at airline travel today, suggesting that racism is still enmeshed in the banalities of contemporary flight.
Export Practice And Management
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Author : Alan E Branch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Export Practice And Management written by Alan E Branch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with Business & Economics categories.