Flying Boats of the Empire : The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the Sky

Knott Richard

ISBN 10: 0709087594 ISBN 13: 9780709087595

Verlag: Robert Hale, 2011

Sprache: Englisch

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Extensive history of the famous 'Empire' class flying boats built for Imperial Airways. 271pp, illustrated. Fine copy in dust wrapper.

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Titel

Flying Boats of the Empire : The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the Sky

Verlag

Robert Hale

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0709087594

ISBN-13

9780709087595

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st

Zustand

Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Fine

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This is a fascinating account of the age of Empire flying boats, whose story began in July 1936 with a reassuringly trouble-free test flight on Kent&;s River Medway. Within ten years, however, this last word in luxury was to become redundant, spurned by the post-war age. The story is a dramatic and human one. It tells of slow, meandering flights across the Empire, swooping down on sun-warmed stretches of water for luncheon and tea. But it also describes misadventure and disaster, with flying boats crashing with unnerving regularity. The characters involved in the Empire&;s story demonstrate its breadth, they include: Winston Churchill; Terence Rattigan (the playwright); Sir John Reith (who chaired both the BBC and Imperial Airways); Don Bennett (the wartime Pathfinder); and the doomed Duke of Kent. The Empire&;s magnificent military sibling, the Sunderland, is also featured and the book illuminates some less well known areas of the war, for example, the Norwegian campaign of 1940 and Australia&;s "Pearl Harbor." Extensively researched&;drawing on personal letters and diaries, government papers, contemporary newspapers, and archive material from Imperial Airways and its successors&;this book reveals all about the Empire flying boat and the people who designed, flew, and traveled in them.

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Richard Knott is a former actor and educationalist who now researches and writes on twentieth-century history. He has previously written on subjects as varied as cricket, poetry, and the teaching of English.

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