The Wight Aircraft
Author: Michael Harold Goodall
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 216
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Author: Michael Harold Goodall
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. T. Gilliam
Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780752423760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the dawn of aviation at the start of the twentieth century, men and aircraft have been falling out of the sky, sometimes with comical results and sometimes with tragic endings. In Wight Air Wrecks Andrew Gilliam tells the story of every crash on and around the Isle of Wight. From the plane that crashed on to the liner Normandie to the many planes, both British and German, lost during the Second World War to more recent air tragedies of the late twentieth century, they are all covered here in some detail in this directory.
Author: David L. Williams
Publisher: Coach House Publications Ltd
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781899392124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of Isle of Wight aviation presents in full detail an under appreciated aspect of Island life. For almost the entire era of powered flight, the Isle of Wight has been at the leading edge of aircraft development. For instance, it looks at the largest operational flying boat ever built and the only successful launch into orbit of an all-British space rocket and satellite. All the aircraft products of J. Samuel White, Saunders-Roe, Britten Norman and GKN Westland Aerospace are featured, as well as the minor manufacturers. It also looks at scheduled air services to and from the Isle of Wight.
Author: Graham White
Publisher: SAE International
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0768095557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAllied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II, now in its second edition, coalesces multiple aspects of war-driven aviation and its amazing technical accomplishments, leading to the allied victory during the second world war. Not by chance, the air battles that took place then defined much of the outcome of one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history. Forward-thinking airplane design had to be developed quickly as the war raged on, and the engines that propelled them were indeed the focus of intense cutting-edge engineering efforts. Flying higher, faster, and taking the enemy down before they even noticed your presence became a matter of life or death for the allied forces. Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II, Second Edition, addresses British- and American-developed engines. It looks at the piston engines in detail as they supported amazing wins both in the heat of the air battles, and on the ground supplying and giving cover to the troops. This new edition, fully revised by the original author, Graham White, offers new images and information, in addition to expanded specifications on the Rolls-Royce/ Packard Merlin and the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines. Jay Leno, a known enthusiast, wrote the Foreword.
Author: Terry C. Treadwell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 144562009X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfusely illustrated history of British and Allied aircraft of the First World War.
Author: Michael H. Goodall
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780764312076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the very first time, the history of British pre-World War I aircraft has been gathered together in one volume, with more than 900 of them well illustrated. This new book constitutes a most valuable contribution about a remarkable period in aviation history and is a memorial to the bravery and inventiveness of the intrepid pioneers of that far off era. Among the many famous manufacturer's covered are Avro, Sopwith, Shorts, and Bristol. Many lesser known designers and builders such as Martin-Handasyde and Howard Wright are also given ample coverage.
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476728763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author: Brian Hinton
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781898198055
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