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Comet: The World's First Commercial Jet Airliner - Hardcover

Hales-Dutton, Bruce

 
9781915343567: Comet: The World's First Commercial Jet Airliner
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1915343569 ISBN 13: 9781915343567
Verlag: Sona Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

t was a sensation! The World’ s first jet airliner flew for the first time barelyfour years after the end of the Second World War...and it was British. Itrevolutionised commercial air travel. It was the fastest airliner in the World andit inspired a post-war public with its pioneering jet engines and sleek design.Star-struck celebrities and royalty flew in it. The World’ s airlines were queuingup to order. And then triumph turned to tragedy.Packed with rare and unseen images and memorabilia, Comet delves into thisamazing aircraft from the dark days of WW2 when it was conceived by Sir Geoffreyde Havilland, through its design and manufacture and introduction to service with BOAC amid cheering and flag waving. It covers in depth the tragic Comet crashes, the exhaustive work done on solving the crash mysteries and its successfu reincarnation, both for civil airlines and for the military, as the Comet 4 and eventually the RAF’ s Nimrod, the ultimate and final variant of the Comet design.This book also gives the reader a flavour of the excitement of air travel in the 1950s and provides an invaluable reference work to every Comet built.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bruce Hales-Dutton’ s professional involvement in aviation goes back a long way. Having started as a newspaper journalist in the 1960s he became a seniorpress officer at the Department of Trade and Industry, a role which involved him in the development of major news stories such as the start of Concordeservices to North America and the debate about London’ s third airport.Later he moved to the British Airports Authority as a media relations specialist and then to the Civil Aviation Authority. He was the CAA’ s head of publicrelations when he retired in 2000.

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Verlag
Sona Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1915343569
ISBN 13 
9781915343567
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Anzahl der Seiten
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