Description
Product ID: | 9780571341481 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Empire of the Clouds |
Subtitle: | The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft |
Authors: | Author: James Hamilton-Paterson |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Manufacturing industries, Aviation manufacturing industry, Aircraft and aviation, Aircraft: general interest, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-04-05 |