Description
| Product ID: | 9780750970143 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Flying Boats |
| Subtitle: | Air Travel in the Golden Age |
| Authors: | Author: Charles Woodley |
| Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Transport industries, Ships and boats: general interest, Aircraft and aviation, Aerospace & air transport industries, Ships & boats: general interest, Aircraft: general interest |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Chronicling a glamorous era in air travel, when journeys took days and were things to be savoured Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today’s air travellers, but sorely missed by some. During the 1930s, long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the oceans. But then the Second World War came, and things changed. Suddenly, landplanes were more efficient, and in abundance: long concrete runways had been constructed during the war that could be used by a new generation of large transport aircraft; and endless developments in aircraft meant they could fly faster and for further distances. Commercial flying boat services resumed, but their days would be numbered. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-08-01 |
