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Author : Howard Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780905483405
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Wings Over Brooklands written by Howard Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Spooner
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526790947
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A History of Aviation at Brooklands in 100 Objects written by Nigel Spooner and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lance Cole
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526735903
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Classic Car Museum Guide written by Lance Cole and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history. Written by a long-established motoring writer with wide experience of driving and the fettling of old cars all over the world. This new motor museum companion includes: British motoring and transport museums guide via descriptions and photographs. 90 British museums described. Comprehensive world motor museum listing: over 350 global museums cited. Out-takes from visits to selected overseas museums. Provides a glossary of old-car/motorcycle terms and types to assist the museum visitor and old car enthusiast. Discusses the museum culture and its new age. Visits to many museums by the author were self-funded: he paid his own way.
Author : Alison Hill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803991488
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women written by Alison Hill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Gower was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her pilot's licence at 20, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl, clocking up more than 2,000 hours overall. Pauline went on to command the inaugural women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and achieved equal pay for her women pilots. She enabled them to fly 'Anything to Anywhere', including Tiger Moths, Hurricanes, Wellingtons and – their firm favourite – the Spitfire. Pauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women is a story of bravery, fortitude and political persuasion. Pauline was a clear leader of her time and a true pioneer of flight. She died after giving birth, at only 36; a life cut tragically short, but one of significant achievements. Pauline left a huge legacy for women in aviation.
Author : William Cooke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445626233
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Wings Over Meir written by William Cooke and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable and meticulously researched account of the Potteries' now largely forgotten aerodrome.
Author : Alliott Berdon Roe Obe
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473387469
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The World Of Wings And Thing written by Alliott Berdon Roe Obe and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating historical account of the state of aircraft and aircraft manufacture in the early 20th century. Written by a pioneer of aviation. This is a must read for any fan of aviation history.
Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250033772
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed written by John F. Ross and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace, who showed a nation the way forward in its quest for speed, endurance and courage.
Author : Steve Mills
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612007902
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of the Drone written by Steve Mills and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] slice of largely-forgotten military history . . . a fascinating exploration of some magnificent men and their flying machines.” —The Sunday Post In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas in Britain. Developed by the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form of television demonstrated before the war by Prof. A. M. Low. The remotecontrol systems for these aircraft and boats were invented at RFC Secret Experimental Works commanded by Prof. Low, which was part of the organization of “back-room boys” in the Munitions Inventions Department. These audacious projects led to the hundreds of remotely controlled Queen Bee aerial targets in the 1930s and hence to all the machines that we now call “drones.” Starting well before WWI and, for the lucky ones, extending well beyond it, the lives of Archibald Low and many of his contemporaries were extraordinary as were the times they lived through. They were around for the first epic aircraft flights and with the aid of the very technologies that had enabled the development of drones, they saw air travel transformed from the precarious to the routine. It is astonishing that the origins of the first drones are not common knowledge in Britain and that the achievement of these maverick inventors is not commemorated. “A focused and engaging look at one arena of behind-the-scenes scientific research and the larger-than-life personalities who populated it.” —Booklist
Author : British Library
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111725944
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A - Airports written by British Library and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. David Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882449
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Eddie Rickenbacker written by W. David Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lewis has written the definitive biography of America's ace of aces.
Author : Paul Smiddy
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750985305
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Speed written by Paul Smiddy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HONOURABLE MRS VICTOR BRUCE: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman – remarkable achievements for a woman of the 1920s and ’30s. Mildred Bruce enjoyed a privileged background that allowed her to search for thrills beyond the bounds of most female contemporaries. She raced against the greats at Brooklands, drove 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle and won the first ladies’ prize at the Monte Carlo Rally. Whilst Amy Johnson was receiving global acclaim for her flight to Australia, Mildred learned to fly, and a mere eight weeks later she embarked on a round-the-world flight, becoming the first person to fly solo from the UK to Japan. Captured by brigands and feted by the Siamese, Japanese and Americans, she survived several crashes with body and spirit intact, and became a glittering aviation celebrity on her return. A thoroughly modern woman, she pushed similar boundaries in her unconventional love life and later became Britain’s first female airline entrepreneur. This is the story of a charismatic woman who defied the conventions of her time, and loved living life in the fast lane.
Author : Michael Joy
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784624721
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Upon a Trailing Edge written by Michael Joy and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of aviation, risk and the heart of the pilot. Four out of five fatal aircraft accidents are due to human error; three out of five to pilot error. This book examines the technical aspects of these issues from the viewpoint of one of the UK's most experienced aviation cardiologists. It spans the end of the Second World War through teaching cardiology in aviation on behalf of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) worldwide, via a history of powered flight, time in the cadet force, a flying scholarship on a Tiger Moth, training to be a doctor, later a cardiologist, and owing a series of aircraft. Michael Joy was appointed as cardiologist to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in 1974 to assist the regulator in the development of standards of cardiological fitness. Error, risk and accident causation are introduced in the context of various fatal accidents. In this stimulating and highly informative autobiography, Michael looks back at his time with the ICAO and CAA, drafting cardiological standards for Europe and worldwide travel to spread the message, including the Khyber pass, an aircraft factory in the Indonesian jungle and the slave island of Goree in Senegal. Safety is no accident and history is its judge.
Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198224969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author : Paul Le Messurier
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445689634
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Surrey's Military Heritage written by Paul Le Messurier and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military heritage of Surrey from medieval times to the present day. This book provides a fascinating insight into the events, people and places that are Surrey’s Military Heritage.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0385678312
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Wings of War written by John Wilson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy-friendly book set during World War One, published for the centennary of the war and accompanied by a digital component to boost interest from the school and library market. It's the early 1900s and Edward Setten is growing up in the prairies fascinated by his uncle, who is one of the very first people in Canada to pilot a plane. Despite his mother's protests, Edward learns to fly and, when war breaks out, joins the Royal Flying Corps. In this fast-paced and gripping novel, Edward's coming of age takes place in the most extraordinary of circumstances.
Author : Diana Barnato Walker
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1908117656
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Spreading My Wings written by Diana Barnato Walker and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II. Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying—soloing at Brooklands after only six hours’ training. Joining the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941 to help ferry aircraft to squadrons and bases throughout the country, she flew scores of different aircraft—fighters, bombers, and trainers—in all kinds of conditions, and without a radio. By 1945, Barnato had lost many friends, a fiancé, and a husband—but she continued to fly. In 1962 she was awarded the Jean Lennox Bird Trophy for notable achievement in aviation, but her greatest moment was yet to come, when in 1963 she flew a Lightning through the sound barrier, becoming “the fastest woman in the world.” Spreading My Wings is her remarkable memoir, brimming with history and adventure.
