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Book Synopsis The Imperial Airways Fleet by : John Stroud
Download or read book The Imperial Airways Fleet written by John Stroud and published by . This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1920s, British civil aviation was under the control of a myriad of companies, both large and small, set up immediately after the war. It was realized that this plethora of companies was doing nothing for the advancement of civil aviation. As a result, Imperial Airways was formed to be Britain's national airline. From its small beginnings in an office at Victoria station, to the heady days of the Empire flying boats, Imperial Airways rapidly opened routes throughout the world. John Stroud's book details for the first time in one source all of the many aircraft that have flown for Imperial Airways. This includes details of what happened to them and their careers.
Book Synopsis The Fleet of Imperial Airways by : Imperial Airways
Download or read book The Fleet of Imperial Airways written by Imperial Airways and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Over Empires and Oceans by : Robert Bluffield
Download or read book Over Empires and Oceans written by Robert Bluffield and published by Tattered Flag. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919 a British company made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but the continuation of regular services was thwarted by a less-than-enthusiastic government that allowed its generously subsidised French competition, for a short time at least, to fly cross-Channel passenger schedules unimpeded. The British eventually realzed that fast links with their Empire were vital, followed the example of the French and Dutch who had forged air links with their cousins in North Africa and the Far East. Meanwhile, in South America, the Germans, forbidden under the Versailles Treaty from any major aircraft-building, were establishing cunning supremacy by forming airlines throughout South America and in China. While America awaited a transcontinental passenger service, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways was crossing swords with Ralph O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) for air supremacy between the US, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America that led to the formation of arguably the world's greatest airline. In Russia, Igor Sikorsky had built a vast passenger-carrying aircraft, the Il'ya Muromets, and politicians debated whether giant airships or fixed-wing aircraft should rule the skies _ an issue that was put firmly to bed when the mighty German airship Hindenburg exploded while mooring at Lakehurst in 1937. Robert BluffieldÍs highly researched and detailed account tells the dramatic stories of explorers such as Kingsford Smith, Lindbergh and Cobham, and flamboyant entrepreneurs, some well known, others forgotten, who risked fortunes and reputations to follow their dreams of reaching and ruling the skies over empires, continents and oceans. Against bewildering adversity, corruption, underhanded deals and dwindling resources, these tenacious individuals braved the elements using primitive, entirely unsuitable equipment to establish earth-shrinking aerial services that criss-crossed the great oceans and the globe's most inhospitable territories. These are the stories of those pioneers _ of A_ropostale, CNAC, Air Orient, Imperial Airways, KLM, Deutsche Luft Hansa, Pan Am, SCADTA, The Condor Syndicat, Qantas and others that had a far-reaching impact on the way the modern world would travel.
Book Synopsis Imperial Airways and the First British Airlines, 1919-40 by : A. S. Jackson
Download or read book Imperial Airways and the First British Airlines, 1919-40 written by A. S. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the adventurous and the wealthy patronized the first companies to inaugurate air services to the continent in 1919. They flew in primitive converted military machines and could expect their flight or be interrupted by an unscheduled landing in a field when bad weather or an engine problem was encountered. The fledgeling airlines operated on the edge of bankruptcy because the government refused to offer finance. The French and German governments susidised their own airlines to provide themselves with a military reserve.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Blue Horizon by : Alexander Frater
Download or read book Beyond the Blue Horizon written by Alexander Frater and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Airlines at War by : Air World Books
Download or read book Airlines at War written by Air World Books and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines.The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was formed shortly after the outbreak of war in November 1939 by the amalgamation of Imperial Airways and British Airways. During the war BOAC operated as directed by the Secretary of State for Air, initially as the transport service for the RAF and with no requirement to act commercially. The inaugural BOAC had eighty-two aircraft, a large proportion of which were seaplanes and flying boats. With 54,000 miles of air routes over many parts of the world, ranging from the Arctic to South Africa, from the Atlantic coast of America to the eastern coast of India, the aircraft of the BOAC kept wartime Britain connected with its colonies and the free world, often under enemy fire. Over these routes, carrying mail, cargo and personnel, the men and machines of BOAC flew in the region of 19,000,000 miles a year.There can rarely have been a moment, throughout the war, when aircraft of the British merchant air service were not flying somewhere along the routes, despite losses from enemy action. This book explores much of their war history between 1939 and 1944 (the year that marked the 25th anniversary of British commercial aviation), something of their lives and their achievements in linking up the battlefronts at times cut off from any direct land or sea contacts with the Home Front and in transporting supplies through the new, dangerous and often uncharted regions of the air. With the Speedbird symbol or the Union Flag emblazoned on its aircraft the BOAC really did fly the flag for Britain throughout the wartime world.
Download or read book The Air Way written by Imperial Airways and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways' African Route, 1931-1939 by :
Download or read book Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways' African Route, 1931-1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imperial Airways by : Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
Download or read book Imperial Airways written by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla by : Margaret Hall
Download or read book The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla written by Margaret Hall and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great wave of fundraising ‘patriotic’ associations followed in the wake of Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla, the scheme aimed to attract contributions towards aircraft production costs from throughout the British Empire. Any country, locality, or community that provided sufficient funds for an entire ‘aeroplane’ could have it named after them. It was promised that when the machine crashed or was shot down, the name would be transferred to a new one of the same type. Margaret Hall examines the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla as a facet of imperial history. She analyzes the fundraising efforts in Canada and Newfoundland; the Zanzibar Protectorate; Fiji, Mauritius, and the Caribbean; Hong Kong; the Malay states and Straits Settlements; West Africa, especially Gold Coast; Southern Rhodesia; Basutoland; Swaziland and the Union of South Africa; the Indian empire and Burma; (British subjects in) independent Abyssinia and Siam; in the Shanghai International Settlement, and the British community of Argentina; Australia; and New Zealand. This remarkable and detailed book discusses the propaganda and counter-subversion usages of the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla—and what the support for the imperial war effort reveals about contemporary national and regional identities and aspirations.
Book Synopsis Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation by : Gordon Pirie
Download or read book Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation written by Gordon Pirie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Imperial 1O9 written by Richard Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial 109 was one of the Empire class flying boats of Britain's Imperial Airways. From Durban in South Africa in the spring of 1939, to New York. The journey traces the passage of desert storms and mountain crossings, romance and intrigue, theft, blackmail and murder.
Book Synopsis Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939 by : Robin Higham
Download or read book Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939 written by Robin Higham and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver de engelske flyselskaber og flyveforbindelser inden for Imperiet i perioden mellem 1. og 2. verdenskrig.
Book Synopsis White Water Landings by : Geoffrey Pett
Download or read book White Water Landings written by Geoffrey Pett and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silver bird straightened up and sank lower, lower, until it met the sea with a sleek spray that rushed past the windows in its fuselage. M'beriali - the imperial mail bird, as it became known in Swahili - had arrived! Imperial Airways' man at Lindi, East Africa, was Geoffrey Pett, then just 22 years old. Selected as a Commercial Trainee aged eighteen, he was posted to the middle of Africa to look after the ground arrangements for the new 'Empire' Flying Boat Service between London and Cape Town/Durban. His Africa postings ranged between Alexandria, Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast, Juba, now in South Sudan, and Butiaba on Lake Albert, Uganda. His war years were as traffic superintendant at Cairo (and at RAF Wadi Saidna, Sudan), handling troop movements and other priority personnel on the civilian aircraft, as well as ensuring the 'Horseshoe Route' between South Africa and Australia operated at its turning point, Cairo. His career continued with the new British Overseas Airways Company, through BEA into British Airways, until ill-health retirement in 1968. Geoffrey was often sought out for his memoirs of Imperial Airways in Africa. After his death in 2005, he left a box of memorabilia including his photograph album and a set of tapes dictated between 1995 and 2004. His daughter, J M Pett, has produced this book to place the information out in the wider world. "The romance of the Golden Age of flying meets the romance of two people torn apart by war."
Book Synopsis A History of Passenger Aircraft by : William Sweetman
Download or read book A History of Passenger Aircraft written by William Sweetman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperial Airways written by Murray McLeod and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Airways was created on 1 April 1924 by virtue of the amalgamation of four independent airline operators, thus giving stability to an emerging industry. Throughout the 1920's Imperial was in the vanguard of forging new air routes into inhospitable areas of Africa and the Middle and Far East. At the forefront of these ventures was Alan Cobham, whose survey flights made possible the creation of Imperial's Empire routes. An important aspect of these events was the employment of aircraft of British design and manufacture, a situation that was maintained until Imperial's amalgamation with British Airways in 1940 thus creating BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation.
Download or read book White Water Landings written by J. Pett and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Water Landings - views of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground The silver bird straightened up and sank lower, lower, until it met the sea with a sleek spray that rushed past the windows in its fuselage. M'beriali - the imperial mail bird, as it became known in Swahili - had arrived! Imperial Airways' man at Lindi, East Africa, was Geoffrey Pett, then just 22 years old. Selected as a Commercial Trainee aged eighteen, he was posted to the middle of Africa to look after the ground arrangements for the new 'Empire' Flying Boat Service between London and Cape Town/Durban. His Africa postings ranged between Alexandria, Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast, Juba, now in South Sudan, and Butiaba on Lake Albert, Uganda. His war years were as traffic superintendant at Cairo (and at RAF Wadi Saidna, Sudan), handling troop movements and other priority personnel on the civilian aircraft, as well as ensuring the 'Horseshoe Route' between South Africa and Australia operated at its turning point, Cairo. His career continued with the new British Overseas Airways Company, through BEA into British Airways, until ill-health retirement in 1968. Geoffrey was often sought out for his memoirs of Imperial Airways in Africa. After his death in 2005, he left a box of memorabilia including his photograph album and a set of tapes dictated between 1995 and 2004. His daughter, J M Pett, has laboured over the contents, producing this book to place the information out in the wider world. More content and links to archive material are on the website http://whitewaterlandings.co.uk. Praise for White Water Landings: "a remarkable and significant piece of aviation and colonial history... shining through his memoirs is a capacity to 'make do'..., and the sense of the Imperial 'family' as a source of identity, support and obligation away from home. ... he reveals anxiety and frustration,cynicism for arbitrary authority... Told fondly, plainly and modestly, with touches of humour, Geoffrey's story reads easily and lingers long. The text is equally delightful as family history, autobiography, and colonial history." - Professor Gordon Pirie, Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, and Editor of the Journal of Transport History "The romance of the Golden Age of flying meets the romance of two people torn apart by war."
