Author: Theodore Stanhope SpriggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Who's who in British aviation
Author: Who's who in British Aviation, 1934-35
Author: Who's who in British Aviation
Author: Who's Who in British Aviation. 1931 Edition - 1936 Edition
Author: United Kingdom
Author: Malcolm Ginsberg'Flight' Directory of British Aviation
Author: Bowker British Library KickoutPublisher:
ISBN: 9780610003165
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Transforming the Skies
Author: Peter ReesePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750987278
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Following the Armistice of 1918, the British Air Industry and the newly founded RAF held a low place in national priorities. The RAF was rapidly run down, with the infant airlines being given the least possible help, and this neglect continued during the 1920s. The RAF's role was questioned and civilian air travel remained a dream for most and the province of the well-heeled few. But the breakdown of the Geneva Disarmament Talks led to renewed interest in the National Air Force, and the rise of the European dictators brought calls for rapid modernisation and interceptor aircraft, together with the development of further European civilian air routes. Here, Peter Reese charts the dramatic changes that swept aviation across the dynamic interwar period, revealing the transformative last-minute preparations for defence in a world where much depended on the contributions of some outstanding individuals.
United Kingdom and Ireland
Author: Malcolm Ginsberg'Aeroplane' Directory of British Aviation
Author: Temple PressPublisher:
ISBN: 9780600450016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Pioneering Places of British Aviation
Author: Bruce Hales-DuttonPublisher: Air World
ISBN: 1526750163
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A high-flying tour of British aviation history—and the sites where trials and triumphs took place. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country, many places became centers of innovation and experimentation, as increasing numbers of daring men took to the skies. In 1799, at Brompton Hall, Sir George Cayley Bart put forward ideas that formed the basis of powered flight. There were balloon flights at Hendon from 1862, though attempts at powered flights from the area, later used as the famous airfield, don’t seem to have been particularly successful. Despite this, Louis Bleriot established a flying school there in 1910. It was gliders that Percy Pilcher flew from the grounds of Stamford Hall, Leicestershire, during the 1890s. He was killed in a crash there in 1899, but Pilcher had plans for a powered aircraft which experts believe may well have enabled him to beat the Wright Brothers in becoming the first to make a fixed-wing powered flight. At Brooklands, unsuccessful attempts were made to build and fly a powered aircraft in 1906—but on June 8, 1908, A.V. Roe made what is considered the first powered flight in Britain from there—in reality a short hop—in a machine of his own design and construction, enabling Brooklands to call itself the birthplace of British aviation. These are just a few of the places investigated in this intriguing look at the early days of British aviation, which includes the first ever aircraft factory in Britain in the railway arches at Battersea; Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, which became the British Army’s first airfield; and Barking Creek, where Frederick Handley Page established his first factory.