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The Constellation: Lockheed's Graceful Masterpiece - Hardcover

Clifton, Alexander

 
9781916216143: The Constellation: Lockheed's Graceful Masterpiece
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1916216145 ISBN 13: 9781916216143
Verlag: SunRise Publishing Ltd, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The airline business is a hundred years old. In that time uncountable airliners have been conceived, designed and built but, for all their diversity, less than a hundred types have ever sold in large numbers and, unlike military aircraft, only a handful are truly iconic. The shortlist, in fact, is so brief (rarely more than six) they can be named in a sentence. Because such rankings can spark passionate debates among the cognoscenti, it’s better that you write your own. All that can be said is that you will be hard-pressed to leave out one of the few commercial aircraft that still stirs hearts across the world: Lockheed’s graceful masterpiece ― the Constellation. Her elliptical wings, triple tail, insect legs and dolphin-shaped fuselage still make her instantly recognisable to almost everyone, even those who could identify few other aeroplanes. For post-war travellers she came to symbolise panache and elegance in what is sometimes known as flying’s ‘Golden Age’. Today, eighty years after her birth, she is loved by another generation for her retro-style and 1940s glamour.

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Alexander Clifton first crossed the Atlantic aboard a Lockheed Constellation in the 1950s. He never lost his love for this graceful, elegant airliner which became one of the most successful commercial and military aircraft of the pre-jet age. In this remarkable homage he has traced the history of the ever-popular Connie from its birth, right up to the handful of preserved Constellations which fly to this day.

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Verlag
SunRise Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1916216145
ISBN 13 
9781916216143
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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