Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft - Softcover

Hamilton-Paterson, James

 
9780571341481: Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571341489 ISBN 13: 9780571341481
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex.

How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy that began with Cooking with Fernet Branca, and the autobiographical Playing With Water. Born and educated in England, he has lived in the Philippines and Italy and now makes his home in Austria.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571341489
ISBN 13 
9780571341481
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
432
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