Author: C. G. Burge
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Air Annual of the British Empire 1931-1932
The Air Annual of the British Empire
Author: Cyril Gordon Burge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Air annual of the British Empire 1931-32
Air annual of the British Empire 1932-33
Air Annual of the British Empire, 1939
The Air Annual of the British Empire
The Air Annual of the British Empire
Author: Cyril G. Burge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The air manual of the British Empire, 1931
Author: E. V. Dolby
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Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
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Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
The Air Annual of the British Empire, V.1-10; 1929-39
Air empire
Author: Gordon Pirie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.