The Story of Loganair
The Story of Loganair

Author: Iain Hutchison

Publisher: kea publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780906437148

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Written from the outside looking in, this book seeks to provide an insight into the growth and operations of a unique airline.

Orkney by Air
Orkney by Air

Author: Guy Warner

Publisher: kea publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780951895870

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Air travel to, from and around the Orkney Islands began in the 1930s, and Orcadians quickly adapted to the aeroplane as a regular mode of transport. This book presents a visual history of the challenges and changes that have occurred over the past three-quarters of a century.

The Flight of the Starling
The Flight of the Starling

Author: Iain Hutchison

Publisher: kea publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780951895801

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Eric Starling shot to fame landing a two-seater bi-plane on a Calais street in darkness. From this inauspicious start he became one of that select breed who pioneered commercial flying in Scotland. This is his story.

The New Coastal History
The New Coastal History

Author: David Worthington

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 3319640909

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This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps bring environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology.

Times Subject to Tides
Times Subject to Tides

Author: Roy Calderwood

Publisher: kea publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780951895832

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This publication looks at the history of Barra Airport. Early chapters look at the location of the airport and trace its use through a succession of operators and aircraft types. Further chapters focus on some of the personalities associated with Traigh Mhor.

Scotland's Wings
Scotland's Wings

Author: Robert Jeffrey

Publisher: Black & White Publishing

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1785304070

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Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviation. Yet in the great industrial cities and remote islands across the country, men and women risked their reputations, resources and lives to advance experiments in flight. Before airliners crossed the Atlantic Ocean and bombers secretly flew into the NATO airbase at Machrihanish, pioneers of aviation worked in the unlikely surroundings of Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow among other places. Their humble flying crafts, made with wood and canvas, would become the luxurious jet-engined aircraft of today. Including the first flight over Everest, the construction of the most northerly airship station in mainland Britain and the experience of civilians and pilots during the Clydebank Blitz of 1941, Scotland's Wings is a glimpse into the dramatic and sometimes controversial adventures within Scottish aeronautics. In Scotland's Wings, Robert Jeffrey tells a fascinating history, highlighting innovators whose ideas heralded the modern age of transport and revealing how the airfields of previous years will once again be used to progress into a daring new age of travel.