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The Golden Age of Air Travel

Author : Nina Hadaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747813477
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Air Travel written by Nina Hadaway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century travel by air was a luxury available only to the wealthy, and accordingly the airlines – Pan Am, BOAC, TWA, BEA and many others – offered premium services that connected far-flung parts of the world with con trails of glamour. This book looks back at the golden age, from the 1920s to the 1970s, when well-appointed airliners whisked the rich and famous around the world on holiday and on business. It evokes the chink of champagne glasses, the aroma of expensive cigars and the roar of early jet engines: the experience of air travel before package holidays and budget airlines changed flying forever. The various types of aircraft, the routes and the airports, as well as the changes undergone by the industry, are all explored here and illustrated by fascinating historical material.

Wings of Fortune

Author : E.A. Chevrette
Publisher : The Troy Book Makers
ISBN 13 : 1614680507
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Wings of Fortune written by E.A. Chevrette and published by The Troy Book Makers. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the basic fabric covered Cub, to the sleek corporate jet, the author takes you page by page through what some have called “The Golden Age” of general aviation. Meet pilots and share in their camaraderie and humor; experience their tragedy and personal triumph. This is a fascinating real life account of the author’s life as a pilot, and his own personal “wings of fortune.” The thought of writing his personal memoirs proved to be a fascinating and irresistible idea for E.A. Chevrette, Jr.. Starting with the resources available at a public library, he gained computer expertise and knowledge of writing. Combining his determination and information gathered from editors and authors, a very unique book has been written.

Amazing Flights

Author : Ole Steen Hansen
Publisher : New York ; St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780778712183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Flights written by Ole Steen Hansen and published by New York ; St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Golden Age of flight, planes were pushed beyond their limits, as pilots raced to be the first to cross oceans and continents. At home, out of work pilots gave rise to barnstormers and daredevils who thrilled crowds with their aerobatics. Read about such aviators and adventures as Charles Lindbergh, the MacRobertson Air Race, James Doolittle and speed records, and air mail.

The Golden Age of Aviation

Author : Katherine S. Williamson
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Aviation written by Katherine S. Williamson and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of Aviation, illustrated with 95 period photographs and works of art, tells the story of the visionaries, inventors, and daredevils whose soaring ambition and courage ushered in the era of modern air travel.

My Left Mag' Is Out

Author : E. R. Wilson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552127761
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book My Left Mag' Is Out written by E. R. Wilson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation's evolution could not have flourished without the technical support provided by thousands of men, and now women, who have gone before and are still to come. They have transcended the generic title of 'mechanic' and matured into truly masterful technicians. My Left Mag' is Out is not intended as a primer of aircraft and engine maintenance. The work will publicize to the flying public that there is life beyond the passenger gates and airport ramps where skilled technicians support aircrafts and arouse memories of incidents in the careers of other maintenance technicians. The author's maintenance career began when two biplanes chased two frightened boys across a field into the shelter of trees, seven years after Lindbergh's flight to Paris. His goal to be in aviation continues through the thirties and his enlistment in the Air Corps, where the airplanes were. Scrubbing engine parts in a cleaning shed, overhauling engines and maintaining aircraft; the attack on Pearl Harbor and the war years; post-war work at maintaining transports on the Korean Airlift followed by years of maintenance on aircrafts used for various purposes; private flying, commercial transports, research and corporate use. Finally, in structural engineering and consultant. The author was also a commercial pilot. My Left Mag' is Out has appeal to all who are interested in aviation, now, or have been, involved or are contemplating a career in aviation. *SPECIAL OFFER* send Earle a proof of purchase of his book My Left Mag' Is Out and you will receive an Aviation Maintenance Technician Log for the cost of mailing (actual value is $14.95).

Contrails over the Mojave

Author : George J Marrett
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251426X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Contrails over the Mojave written by George J Marrett and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school’s commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zero-G maneuvers in a KC-135 “Vomit Comet,” and a flight to 80,000 feet in the F-104A Starfighter. After graduating from Yeager’s “Charm School,” he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations, where he flew the latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft as they set world speed and altitude records. Marrett takes readers into the cockpit as he “goes vertical” in a T-38 Talon, completes high-G maneuvers in an F-4C Phantom, and conducts wet-runway landing tests in the accident-prone F-111A Aardvark. He writes about Col. “Silver Fox” Stephens setting a world speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Bob Gilliland testing speed stalls in the SR-71 spy plane, but he also relives stories of crashes that killed test pilot friends. He recounts dead-sticking a T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy. A mysterious UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert, known as “The Edwards Encounter,” also receives Marrett’s attention. Whether the author is assessing a new aircraft’s performance or describing the experiences of test pilots as they routinely faced the possibility of death, this look at the golden age of flight testing both thrills and informs.

Pan American Clippers

Author : James Trautman
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9780228102304
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Pan American Clippers written by James Trautman and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrated with rare period photographs, vintage travel posters, magazine ads and colorful company brochures, Pan American Clippers covers every aspect of the era of flying boats, from 1931-1946. Trautman explains PanAm's founding and growth, their wartime activities, and the design choices that made the company a symbol of luxury. "--

North to the Orient

Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156671408
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis North to the Orient by : Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Download or read book North to the Orient written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1935 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1935.

British Airways

Author : Paul Jarvis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445679280
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book British Airways written by Paul Jarvis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning posters that chart the development and romance of air travel. In association with British Airways.

While I Was Flyihg

Author : David Ward Jones
Publisher : PCG Legacy
ISBN 13 : 9780990447504
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book While I Was Flyihg written by David Ward Jones and published by PCG Legacy. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a sequence of stories that are informative, entertaining, sometimes riveting, and laced with humor. The stories tell of one man's passion and perseverance for the beauty, adventure, and discovery of flying as he continually flies into the unknown. He covers his twenty-five years of flying, experience and episodes in general aviation, including some that end in tragedy and some wrought with the potential for tragedy. Fifteen-years of business-flying escapades, as an Architect and aircraft owner, are interwoven into the fabric of the history of, what may arguably be, "The Golden Age of Aviation." These stories cover multiple flights to and from over one-hundred and twenty-five towns and cities, in over twenty-three States, three Countries and three Continents with over two-thousand takeoffs and landings from the busiest airports in the world to the short- field dirt and grass landing strips. He holds a Commercial Pilot Certificate with Single-Engine and Multiple-Engine Land endorsements and an Instrument Rating. He also does other stuff, but he'd rather be flying. The author has two children, three grandchildren, an Architectural practice, a Classic car, and an ever- intimidating stack of bills.

Amazing Flights - Golden Age

Author : Ole Hansen
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613590389
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Flights - Golden Age written by Ole Hansen and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the two decades between World War I and II that pushed aviation to the limits and profiles some of the pilots that took the risks.

Aviation's Golden Age

Author : William Matthew Leary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aviation's Golden Age written by William Matthew Leary and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Come Fly the World

Author : Julia Cooke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358251400
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Come Fly the World written by Julia Cooke and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--

The Golden Age of Aviation

Author : Virginia Aviation Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Aviation written by Virginia Aviation Museum and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Undaunted

Author : Spencer Dunmore
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 9780771029370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Undaunted written by Spencer Dunmore and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a dangerous game - but for a resolute few the lure was irresistible. When in 1904 the Wright brothers stayed aloft for more than five minutes, nobody paid them much attention. But over the next couple of decades, beginning with flyers like Bleriot, Farman, Roe, Quimby, and Rogers, aviators began to push the limits of the possible, and their exploits caught the imagination of a public looking for sensation. In "Undaunted, " Spencer Dunmore tells the thrilling story of these dramatic and romantic characters. They were glamorous figures in an exciting new time, an astonishing era in which long-distance aviators were the crown princes and princesses of the technological age and their flights were major sporting events. A breathless public studied their every move, newspapers all over the world bore their photographs, and crowds lined the streets as they drove by. When Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris in 1927, he instantly became the most admired man in the world. Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Howard Hughes, and a host of others, many now forgotten, grabbed a share of his glory. To make a record-breaking flight in the golden age of aviation was to gain fame and, with luck, fortune too. The risks were high few of the pioneers lived to old age but for the mavericks, eccentrics, romantics, and visionaries in this book, the adventure was worth it.

Bob Fogg and New Hampshire's Golden Age of Aviation

Author : Jane Rice
Publisher : Jetty House
ISBN 13 : 9781937721039
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Bob Fogg and New Hampshire's Golden Age of Aviation written by Jane Rice and published by Jetty House. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China Clipper

Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514243
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book China Clipper written by Robert Gandt and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible. To fully document the story he includes interviews with flying boat pioneers and a dynamic collection of photographs, charts, and cutaway illustrations.