The book, which offers an analysis of KLM's many ups and downs, is richly illustrated with photos, aviation-related memorabilia and objects that tell a story. This is the official centenary publication for aviation aficionados and everyone else who harbours warm feelings for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. KLM is the world's oldest airline still operating under its original name. Today, with a workforce of 30,000 people, KLM transports 30 million passengers a year. 2019 marks its 100th anniversary. Th...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earli...
The Boeing 737 is an American short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a division of the Boeing Company. Originally designed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from the 707 and 727, the 737 has grown into a family of passenger models with capacities from 85 to 215 passengers, the most recent version of which, the 737 MAX, has become embroiled in a worldwide controversy. Initially envisioned in 1964, the fir...
The Boeing 747, more commonly known as the `Jumbo Jet’, is probably the most recognised of all modern airliners, and for many years was the largest passenger airliner in service. Peter March describes the Jumbo Jet’s development and its service history with the world’s airlines. He includes a wide range of interesting facts and figures about an aircraft that has become one of the most recognisable icons of modern air travel. His concise but engaging narrative is complemented by a selection of 8...
The era of the combat biplane is usually thought to have been between 1914 and 1938. By the outbreak of World War II, most of the advanced air forces of the world had moved on to monoplane aircraft for their front-line battle forces, both in bomber and fighter capacities. Yet despite this many biplanes did still survive, both in front-line service and in numerous subsidiary roles, and not just as training machines but as fully operational warplanes. Thus in 1939 the majority of major European po...
Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O? Politics played an important part of course, as did BOAC's tactics, and a 'who dunnit' cast of politico-corporate events and machinations at the highest level of society during the dying days of Empire in 1960s Britain. Key players in the story, from Tony Benn to famous test pilot Brian T...
Flying Machines Over Pensacola an Early Aviation History from 1909 to 1929
by Leo F Murphy
Supermarine, one of the great names in British aviation, was associated from its earliest days with flying boats and amphibians - the Channel Type and Sea Eagle saw early airline service, and the Sea Lions initiated Supermarine's association with the international Schneider Trophy contests. The Spitfire, arguably one of the world's best-known aeroplanes, owed its existence to Supermarine's Schneider seaplane experience and the highly successful collaboration with Rolls Royce. After the war Super...
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation
What Engineers Know and How They Know it (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Walter G. Vincenti
"The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer."--Technology Review.Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor.
The Luftwaffe Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot's Kitbag
by Mark Hillier
Reichsmarschall G ring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prove disastrously wrong, but for four long months his pilots and aircrew fought for their lives in the skies above the UK. From their bases in continental Europe, the Luftwaffe s fighter pilots escorted the great bomber fleets that sought to destroy the RAF s airfields and installations, and ta...
Military Aircraft of the Cold War (The Aviation Factfile) (Aviation Factfiles)
by Jim Winchester
Born of the struggle for global influence between the great powers in the aftermath of World War II, the Cold War was an era of inexorable technological advancement and a succession of wars-by-proxy between Soviet Russia and the United States. Driven by political pressures and helped by advances made in the latter years of the war by German, British and American scientists, the western powers and the Communist bloc embarked on an unprecedented arms race. Military aircraft were a key part of this...
Endurance Wec
by Ricardo Romanelli, Antonio Pannullo, and Marco Zanello
A unique work revealing to readers for the first time the aerodynamic evolution of the sports prototypes of the latest "Golden Age of Endurance Racing", those with hybrid powerplants. A painstaking exploration of the world of the enthralling sports prototypes, the cars developed from the Group C period - in the first half of the Eighties - through to the protagonists of the current WEC and ELMS championships. Hundreds of colour drawings document the technical evolution of the covered wheel raci...