Author: Mike Phipp
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rare and unpublished images telling the story of the county's aviation history. Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections.
Dorset Aviation Through Time
Author: Mike Phipp
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rare and unpublished images telling the story of the county's aviation history. Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rare and unpublished images telling the story of the county's aviation history. Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections.
Bournemouth Through Time
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623250
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Bournemouth has changed and developed over the last century
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623250
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Bournemouth has changed and developed over the last century
Wimborne Minster Through Time
Author: Roger Guttridge
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398116432
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This fascinating set of photographs shows how Wimborne Minster has changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398116432
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This fascinating set of photographs shows how Wimborne Minster has changed and developed over the last century.
Wessex Aviation Industry
Author: Mike Phipp
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624362
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Tracing the story of aviation in Wessex from its earliest beginnings to the modern hi-tech industry that exists today.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624362
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Tracing the story of aviation in Wessex from its earliest beginnings to the modern hi-tech industry that exists today.
A History of Aviation at Brooklands in 100 Objects
Author: Nigel Spooner
Publisher: Air World
ISBN: 1526790947
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century mankind had not yet achieved powered flight. The main motive power then was provided by steam engines – heavy, dirty and inefficient. If one wanted to travel ‘over seas’ one had to travel on them. A journey from London to New York, by steam-driven train and ship, took more than 6 days. By the time the same century drew to a close in December 1999, air travel was the normal choice for long journeys. Millions of people every day flew comfortably and safely in pressurised aluminium airliners propelled by simple, clean and efficient gas turbine engines. The same journey from London to New York could be achieved at supersonic speed in less than 6 hours. For much of that century, many of the extraordinary developments that moved aviation from fragile wood and fabric biplanes to supersonic transports were achieved on 330 acres of low-lying former estate farmland in Surrey, England. The estate was called Brooklands. Those marshy acres were transformed from 1907 into the world’s first custom-built motor-racing circuit, then a rapidly developing aerodrome, and finally one of the country’s largest aircraft factories, employing tens of thousands of people. Nearly 19,000 aircraft of many different types were built at Brooklands during nine decades of peace and war. By the 1980s however it was being eclipsed by larger manufacturing sites elsewhere, with longer runways and better communications links; its owner, by then called British Aerospace, finally closed the factory in 1989. This book tells the history of those amazing developments through 100 of the key aircraft, engines, places and other objects that can still be seen, either in or near Brooklands Museum or in other locations around the country. It also highlights the stories of six designers whose inspiring creativity produced aircraft, engines and weapons ranging from Camel to Concorde, Fury to Harrier, Wellington to Viscount, Merlin to Olympus. Between them, Thomas Sopwith, Barnes Wallis, Rex Pierson, Sydney Camm, Stanley Hooker and George Edwards were responsible for much of what was designed, built and flown, not only at Brooklands but elsewhere too. The book is arranged in successive historical episodes but the many links between the objects and the designers should allow readers to follow different paths if they so wish. It is not intended as a technical reference but rather to inspire the reader to seek out the objects and discover more about them.
Publisher: Air World
ISBN: 1526790947
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century mankind had not yet achieved powered flight. The main motive power then was provided by steam engines – heavy, dirty and inefficient. If one wanted to travel ‘over seas’ one had to travel on them. A journey from London to New York, by steam-driven train and ship, took more than 6 days. By the time the same century drew to a close in December 1999, air travel was the normal choice for long journeys. Millions of people every day flew comfortably and safely in pressurised aluminium airliners propelled by simple, clean and efficient gas turbine engines. The same journey from London to New York could be achieved at supersonic speed in less than 6 hours. For much of that century, many of the extraordinary developments that moved aviation from fragile wood and fabric biplanes to supersonic transports were achieved on 330 acres of low-lying former estate farmland in Surrey, England. The estate was called Brooklands. Those marshy acres were transformed from 1907 into the world’s first custom-built motor-racing circuit, then a rapidly developing aerodrome, and finally one of the country’s largest aircraft factories, employing tens of thousands of people. Nearly 19,000 aircraft of many different types were built at Brooklands during nine decades of peace and war. By the 1980s however it was being eclipsed by larger manufacturing sites elsewhere, with longer runways and better communications links; its owner, by then called British Aerospace, finally closed the factory in 1989. This book tells the history of those amazing developments through 100 of the key aircraft, engines, places and other objects that can still be seen, either in or near Brooklands Museum or in other locations around the country. It also highlights the stories of six designers whose inspiring creativity produced aircraft, engines and weapons ranging from Camel to Concorde, Fury to Harrier, Wellington to Viscount, Merlin to Olympus. Between them, Thomas Sopwith, Barnes Wallis, Rex Pierson, Sydney Camm, Stanley Hooker and George Edwards were responsible for much of what was designed, built and flown, not only at Brooklands but elsewhere too. The book is arranged in successive historical episodes but the many links between the objects and the designers should allow readers to follow different paths if they so wish. It is not intended as a technical reference but rather to inspire the reader to seek out the objects and discover more about them.
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Southampton Airport Through Time
Author: Peter C. Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445687453
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Exploring rare and unpublished historic illustrations recording the history of Southampton airport over time.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445687453
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Exploring rare and unpublished historic illustrations recording the history of Southampton airport over time.
KITES, BIRDS & STUFF - Over 150 Years of BRITISH Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 3 - P to Z
Author: P.D. Stemp
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445794233
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A history of aviation pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years to the modern day. A comprehensive study of old and new. Including: - Parnall - Pemberton-Billing - Percival - Sage - Saunders-Roe - Slingsby - Spartan - Taylorcraft - Tipsy - White & Thompson - Wight - to name but a few. A two hundred and seventy six page book. Individual details of some 490 aircraft. Around 436 pictures plus 134 plan diagrams.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445794233
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A history of aviation pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years to the modern day. A comprehensive study of old and new. Including: - Parnall - Pemberton-Billing - Percival - Sage - Saunders-Roe - Slingsby - Spartan - Taylorcraft - Tipsy - White & Thompson - Wight - to name but a few. A two hundred and seventy six page book. Individual details of some 490 aircraft. Around 436 pictures plus 134 plan diagrams.
Air Pictorial
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Naval Aviation News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description