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Author: Andrew Appleton
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1445623439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Filton Airfield has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Guy Ellis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1445620685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Gloucestershire Airport has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Peter Helton
Publisher: Severn House/ORIM
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1780103239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe case of a missing supermarket employee takes the British PI and penniless artist from Bath to the Island of Corfu in this “puzzling . . . dizzy” mystery (Publishers Weekly). Chris Honeysett, an uninspired artist and lone proprietor of Aqua Investigations, leaps at the chance to leave his cold and damp rural cottage in Bath, England for the cozy warmth of Corfu, Greece. The job comes at the behest of a supermarket magnate whose most valued team member, Kyla Biggs, has disappeared while on holiday on the sunny Greek island. All Honeysett has to do is bring his lightest Mediterranean summer wear, learn a little Greek, and find her. What could possibly go wrong? For starters, he looks up his old art teacher, Morva, who seems to have a stalker intent on killing her. On top of that, locals go strangely quiet when it comes to Kyla. For Honeysett, this all-expense-paid “vacation” is looking more dangerous by the minute. But for readers—“who wouldn’t want to spend a fortnight in Corfu with the droll Honeysett and his chums?” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author: Peter Forrester
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0752490311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne evening as he made his way to a local church social in the village hall during the 1950s, a loud crack shook the ground and the night sky turned to an orange glow, lighting the way for him. Shrugging his shoulders, the author made his way through the village, and in the distance he heard an explosion as a jet aircraft hit the ground. It was a common enough occurrence in the village of Ilton; RAF Merryfield was always losing aircraft and on a regular basis.Fifty years later, and in an effort to put his indifference right, the author began to investigate air crashes in and around Somerset. What he discovered appalled him at the sheer scale of it all. He now shares his findings of Somerset air crashes since 1945 with you.
Author: Barbara Anderton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1471709876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiona Bishop is living her dream when she marries tall, dark, handsome Oliver Haig, the rich and titled owner of Somerfield Hall. Her happiness is short-lived when World War II breaks out and Oliver volunteers for the RAF. Within months he is reported missing in action, presumed dead in a plane crash. Fiona and her mother-in-law are left to run the estate and, when she meets an American Officer, Major Lennie Reagan, their friendship soon blossoms into a love affair. When her husband is found alive and returns to England, Fiona has to face life without her true love, Lennie, whilst she watches Oliver struggling to recover from his injuries. Years later, Oliver Haig suffers a stroke and his son inherits his father's title. Fiona and Lennie can finally be together.
Author: P D Rendall
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2018-07-23
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1785004387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Avonmouth Line - History and Working describes the railway built between the northern suburbs of Bristol and the docks constructed at the mouth of the River Avon, from its inception in 1865. It describes how a short passenger line was first constructed, running from a station in the Avon Gorge at Hotwells to the new Docks. The Midland Railway and then the Great Western Railway took advantage of the rising popularity of the Avonmouth docks, and additional routes were constructed at Kingswood Junction on the Bristol-Gloucester line, and from a junction with the Great Western at Pilning. Contents include the beginnings of the line as the 'Bristol Port Railway and Pier'; the docks lines at their height of use and during wartime; post 1950s run-downs and attempts to close the line; the line in 2018 and finally, duties and memories of the staff who worked the line. P D Rendall has had a life-long career in railway engineering and is now a published author and social historian.
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1733376933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed.
Author: Maurice Fells
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1445671212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of Bristol, told through the archives of the Evening Post and Western Daily Press.
Author: Anestis Antoniadis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 3319187325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chapters in this volume stress the need for advances in theoretical understanding to go hand-in-hand with the widespread practical application of forecasting in industry. Forecasting and time series prediction have enjoyed considerable attention over the last few decades, fostered by impressive advances in observational capabilities and measurement procedures. On June 5-7, 2013, an international Workshop on Industry Practices for Forecasting was held in Paris, France, organized and supported by the OSIRIS Department of Electricité de France Research and Development Division. In keeping with tradition, both theoretical statistical results and practical contributions on this active field of statistical research and on forecasting issues in a rapidly evolving industrial environment are presented. The volume reflects the broad spectrum of the conference, including 16 articles contributed by specialists in various areas. The material compiled is broad in scope and ranges from new findings on forecasting in industry and in time series, on nonparametric and functional methods and on on-line machine learning for forecasting, to the latest developments in tools for high dimension and complex data analysis.
Author: David Bremner
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 339
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1913, Frank Barnwell designed the Bristol Scout, which was the fastest and most manoeuvrable warplane for the first eighteen months of the First World War, and became the prototype single-seat fighter from which all later fighters were derived. As a result Barnwell became one of the seminal figures in the development of aircraft design. In 1916, Flt Sub Lt F. D. H. Bremner RNAS flew Bristol Scouts for No. 2 Wing in the eastern Mediterranean. In 1983, his grandson David discovered three aircraft parts from Scout no. 1264 in his late grandfather's workshop and twenty years later he, together with his friend Theo Willford, researched the possibility of rebuilding her from these three parts. This book interweaves the previously unpublished early life of Barnwell and his brother Harold, the operational and technical history of his creation the Bristol Scout, Bremner's flying career, and the challenges faced by Theo together with David and his brother Rick in recreating 1264 and getting her back in the air. Neither Frank Barnwell nor the Bristol Scout have received the acclaim due to them in the history of military aviation and this lavishly illustrated book attempts to put the record straight.
