Author: Paul R. Hare
Publisher: Exhibit A
ISBN: 9781906798352
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
RAF BE2/BE2a/BE2b
Author: Paul R. Hare
Publisher: Exhibit A
ISBN: 9781906798352
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Exhibit A
ISBN: 9781906798352
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An Illustrated Companion to the First World War
Author: Anthony Peter Charles Bruce
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This handsome volume explores WWI in a panoramic account that encompasses its historical context, military ramifications, strategic innovations, political events, and such unusual topics as mutinies. Illustrated.
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This handsome volume explores WWI in a panoramic account that encompasses its historical context, military ramifications, strategic innovations, political events, and such unusual topics as mutinies. Illustrated.
History of the RAF
Author: Chaz Bowyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Beskriver Det engelske Flyvevåben - Royal Air Force (RAF) - fra dets oprettelse i 1918 og op til midt i 1970'erne.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Beskriver Det engelske Flyvevåben - Royal Air Force (RAF) - fra dets oprettelse i 1918 og op til midt i 1970'erne.
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.
The Royal Aircraft Factory
Author: Paul R. Hare
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the World’s premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed a diversity of aircraft including many of those that equipped the RFC, RNAS and RAF during the First World War. Originally established to build observation balloons for the Victorian British Army, the Factory later expanded to employ over 3500 people by mid-1916, at which time it became the subject of a political controversy that ended in a judicial enquiry. In 1918 its title was changed to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, not only to avoid a clash of initials with the newly formed Royal Air Force but to better define its changing role. Each of the many designs for airships and aeroplanes that were produced by the Factory between 1908 and 1918 is described in detail, illustrated by photographs, and with three-view drawings provided for the more prominent designs.
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the World’s premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed a diversity of aircraft including many of those that equipped the RFC, RNAS and RAF during the First World War. Originally established to build observation balloons for the Victorian British Army, the Factory later expanded to employ over 3500 people by mid-1916, at which time it became the subject of a political controversy that ended in a judicial enquiry. In 1918 its title was changed to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, not only to avoid a clash of initials with the newly formed Royal Air Force but to better define its changing role. Each of the many designs for airships and aeroplanes that were produced by the Factory between 1908 and 1918 is described in detail, illustrated by photographs, and with three-view drawings provided for the more prominent designs.
Italian Spads at War!
Author: Gregory Alegi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906798277
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906798277
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Pictorial History of the R.A.F.: 1918-1939
Author: John William Ransom Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Flight
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Nieuport 24/27 at War
Author: Paolo Varriale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906798406
Category : Nieuport airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906798406
Category : Nieuport airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Airmen Died in the Great War, 1914-1918
Author: Chris Hobson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781871505818
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781871505818
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description