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Author : Dennis Baldry
Publisher : Osprey Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780850458299
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The DEC Schneider Trophy Race written by Dennis Baldry and published by Osprey Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Robinson Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of the Schneider Trophy Race, 1913 to 1931 written by Henry Robinson Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Pegram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781551790
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Schneider Trophy Seaplanes and Flying Boats written by Ralph Pegram and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the Schneider Trophy, this book is a history of over one hundred different aircraft that contested the trophy between 1913 and 1931. The book includes amazing drawings and photographs of the aircraft that have never been seen before.
Author : Henry Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913076149
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Schneider Trophy Races, 1913-1931 written by Henry Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Murland
Publisher : Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN 13 : 1526770024
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Schneider Trophy Air Races written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword Aviation. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Schneider Trophy is the history of aircraft development. When Jacques Schneider devised and inaugurated the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime race for seaplanes in 1913, no-one could have predicted the profound effect the Series would have on aircraft design and aeronautical development, not to mention world history. Howard Pixton’s 1914 victory in a Sopwith Tabloid biplane surprisingly surpassed the performance of monoplanes and other manufacturers turned back to biplanes. During The Great War aerial combat was almost entirely conducted by biplanes, with their low landing speeds, rapid climb rates and maneuverability. Post-war the Races resumed in 1920. The American Curtiss racing aircraft set the pattern for the 1920s, making way for Harold Mitchell’s Supermarines in the 1930’s. Having won the 1927 race at Venice Mitchell developed his ground-breaking aircraft into the iconic Spitfire powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. This new generation of British fighter aircraft were to play a decisive role in defeating the Luftwaffe and thwarting the Nazis’ invasion plans. This is a fascinating account of the air race series that had a huge influence on the development of flight.
Author : Derek N. James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781554180
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Schneider Trophy Aircraft 1913-1931 written by Derek N. James and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of 1912 Jacques Schneider announced his intention of presenting an annual trophy for an international seaplane contest. There were only twelve Schneider contests but they were major international events with the major rivals being Britain and Italy, followed by France and the US. Biplane seaplanes and flying-boats predominated the early contests and some very advanced twin-float biplanes were among the winners as late as 1925. However, it was the monoplane which was to become the symbol of Schneider Trophy, with Supermarine and Macchi designs reaching the peak of racing seaplane performance. The final winning combination of Supermarine airframe and Rolls-Royce engine was to make a vital contribution to Britain's defence in 1940 in the form of the Rolls-Royce powered Hurricane and Spitfire. This book records the contests and, in considerable detail, the design, development and achievements of the participating aircraft; those which failed to take part; and the projects, some of which embodied very advanced ideas even if they were proved to be unrealistic.
Author : John Shelton
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781844255306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Schneider Trophy to Spitfire written by John Shelton and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the entire design career of legendary aircraft designer Reginald J. Mitchell. Renowned as the creator of the iconic Supermarine Spitfire fighter, Mitchell was also responsible for the sleek record-breaking seaplane aircraft that won outright the Schneider Trophy in 1931, and other classic designs such as the Stranraer and Southampton flying boats. John Shelton examines Mitchell’s 28 designs and recounts how each of his aircraft emerged in response to contemporary requirements and to prevailing design philosophies.
Author : Steve Hely
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627796681
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Ridiculous Race written by Steve Hely and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world-for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The Harvard Lampoon, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran now hotshot Hollywood scribes, challenged each other to a race around the globe in opposite directions. There was only one rule: no airplanes. The first man to cross every line of longitude and arrive back in L.A. would win Scotch and infamy. But little did one racer know that the other planned to cheat him out of the big prize by way of a ride on a quarter-million-dollar jet pack. What follows is a pair of hilarious, hazardous, and eye-opening journeys into the farthest corners of the world. From the West Bank to the Aleutian Islands, the slums of Rio to the steppes of Mongolia, traveling by ocean freighter and the Trans-Siberian Railway (pranking each other mercilessly along the way), Vali and Steve plunge eagerly and ill-prepared into global adventure. The Ridiculous Race is a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who can't wait to don baggy cardigan sweaters, clench corncob pipes between their teeth, and yell at their sons, "You lazy bums! When we were your age, we raced around the world without airplanes!"
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Civil Aeronautics Conference, Washington, D.C., December 12-14, 1928, Papers Submitted by the Delegates for Consideration by the Conference written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book International Civil Aeronautics Conference, Washington, D.C., December 12-14, 1928 written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547738471
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book The Last Dragonslayer written by Jasper Fforde and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As magic fades from the world, 15-year-old Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic.
Author : Michael Gough
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647100X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Pulitzer Air Races written by Michael Gough and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American "pilots have broken the records which we, here in France, considered as our own for so long." The Pulitzer Trophy Air Races (1920 through 1925), endowed by the sons of publisher Joseph Pulitzer in his memory, brought about this remarkable turnaround. Pulitzer winning speeds increased from 157 to 249 mph, and Pulitzer racers, mounted on floats, twice won the most prestigious international air race--the Schneider Trophy Race for seaplanes. Airplanes, engines, propellers, and other equipment developed for the Pulitzers were sold domestically and internationally. More than a million spectators saw the Pulitzers; millions more read about them and watched them in newsreels. This, the first book about the Pulitzers, tells the story of businessmen, generals and admirals who saw racing as a way to drive aviation progress, designers and manufacturers who produced record-breaking racers, and dashing pilots who gave the races their public face. It emphasizes the roles played by the communities that hosted the races--Garden City (Long Island), Omaha, Detroit and Mt. Clemens, Michigan, St. Louis, and Dayton. The book concludes with an analysis of the Pulitzers' importance and why they have languished in obscurity for so long.
Author : Jonathan Glancey
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1786494205
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Wings Over Water written by Jonathan Glancey and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy stole the imaginations of pioneering aircraft manufacturers in America, France, Britain and Italy, as they competed in a series of air races that attracted a hugely popular following. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two and Reginald Mitchell's record-breaking Supermarine seaplanes morphed into the Spitfire. Wings Over Water tells the story of the Schneider air races afresh and also examines the wider politics and society of the early twentieth-century that framed the event. It is an exhilarating tale of raw adventure, public excitement and engineering genius.
Author : Robert S. Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976196020
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Aircraft of Air Racing's Golden Age written by Robert S. Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound. History of Air Racing between 1928 and 1939. 487 pages.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : RALPH. BARKER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909269873
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (698 download)
Download or read book The Schneider Trophy Races written by RALPH. BARKER and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines meets Le Mans. Hugely entertaining. And deadly serious' Rowland White, Author of Vulcan 607 It was the greatest international competition of its day - a thrilling, globe-trotting, high speed air racing series that married cutting-edge technology with astonishing skill, bravery and danger. Duelling at 400 mph just a few feet from sea surface left pilots little margin for error. For over a decade, as aircraft of Great Britain, the United States, France and Italy fought for the prize, the Schneider Trophy represented the pinnacle of aviation development. A succession of world records fell to machines that combined super-charged brute power with streamlined good looks. With the RAF's Supermarine S6B, legendary aircraft designer R.J Mitchell, honed the genius that produced the Spitfire, while Rolls-Royce advanced the state-of-the-art with a powerful V-12 engine that paved the way for its war-winning masterpiece, the Merlin.
Author : Calum E. Douglas
Publisher : HarperTempest
ISBN 13 : 9781911658870
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)
Download or read book The Secret Horsepower Race: Western Front Fighter Engine Development - Special Edition Merlin written by Calum E. Douglas and published by HarperTempest. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole. This is the never before told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war's best fighter engine. Using the fruits of extensive research in archives around the world together with the previously unpublished memoirs of fighter engine designers, author Calum E. Douglas tells the story of a desperate contest between the world's best engineers - the Secret Horsepower Race.
