Author: Stephen Skinner
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497294
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style fifty years after its maiden flight. In this revised edition, Stephen Skinner combines original research with fascinating black-and-white and colour images, as well as detailed appendices, to consider what transpired in those five decades and the place the One-Eleven holds in British aviation history.
BAC One-Eleven
Author: Stephen Skinner
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497294
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style fifty years after its maiden flight. In this revised edition, Stephen Skinner combines original research with fascinating black-and-white and colour images, as well as detailed appendices, to consider what transpired in those five decades and the place the One-Eleven holds in British aviation history.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497294
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style fifty years after its maiden flight. In this revised edition, Stephen Skinner combines original research with fascinating black-and-white and colour images, as well as detailed appendices, to consider what transpired in those five decades and the place the One-Eleven holds in British aviation history.
One-Eleven Down
Author: Steven Hyer
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764342783
Category : Aircraft accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The sole purpose of this book is to answer 'Why some F-111's never came home.' ... All 120 major accidents, eleven combat losses, and twenty-three heavily damaged aircraft, with the USAF [United States Air Force] and the RAAF [Royal Australian Air Force] are discussed"--Book jacket.
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764342783
Category : Aircraft accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The sole purpose of this book is to answer 'Why some F-111's never came home.' ... All 120 major accidents, eleven combat losses, and twenty-three heavily damaged aircraft, with the USAF [United States Air Force] and the RAAF [Royal Australian Air Force] are discussed"--Book jacket.
The Crash of Delta Flight 723
Author: Paul D. Houle
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476686424
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
At the height of the Watergate scandal, Delta Flight 723 crashed into a fog-shrouded seawall at the end of Runway 4R at Logan Airport in Boston. While this incident and Watergate seemed unrelated at first, President Richard Nixon and his subordinates' actions during Watergate interfered with the ability of the National Transportation Safety Board to properly investigate the crash. It wasn't until three court cases, a federal investigation, congressional hearings, as well as a state investigation, when the true cause of the accident was exposed ten years later. This is also the story of Air Force Sergeant Leopold Chouinard and his incredible fight for survival. Chouinard survived the initial impact of the crash, only to suffer third and fourth degree burns on the majority of his body. Doctors fought against incredible odds to try and save Chouinard's life. For 134 days, Leo Chouinard defied all expectations as his doctors and nurses applied the latest advancements in burn treatments to save him from a non-survivable accident. They nearly succeeded. Through interviews with Chouinard's family, his physicians, and the NTSB's investigation, comes a story of corruption, determination, and vindication as well as the answer to what really caused that crash at Logan airport.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476686424
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
At the height of the Watergate scandal, Delta Flight 723 crashed into a fog-shrouded seawall at the end of Runway 4R at Logan Airport in Boston. While this incident and Watergate seemed unrelated at first, President Richard Nixon and his subordinates' actions during Watergate interfered with the ability of the National Transportation Safety Board to properly investigate the crash. It wasn't until three court cases, a federal investigation, congressional hearings, as well as a state investigation, when the true cause of the accident was exposed ten years later. This is also the story of Air Force Sergeant Leopold Chouinard and his incredible fight for survival. Chouinard survived the initial impact of the crash, only to suffer third and fourth degree burns on the majority of his body. Doctors fought against incredible odds to try and save Chouinard's life. For 134 days, Leo Chouinard defied all expectations as his doctors and nurses applied the latest advancements in burn treatments to save him from a non-survivable accident. They nearly succeeded. Through interviews with Chouinard's family, his physicians, and the NTSB's investigation, comes a story of corruption, determination, and vindication as well as the answer to what really caused that crash at Logan airport.
Left Luggage
Author: Andrew Christie
Publisher: Painting the Bridge Books
ISBN: 0992574714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Publisher: Painting the Bridge Books
ISBN: 0992574714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Eleven Broken Pencils
Author: V. Schroeder
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499039387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An extremely dysfunctional family unites in the 90s due to the tragic death of their mother. Suicide? Undiagnosed mental illness? Most people never spoke of or knew about bi-polar or other subtle mental imbalances in the decades before the new millennium. Shocking and life altering secrets revealed about family members finally cleanse their troubled souls and bring them back into each others arms. This was the unaccomplished goal the mother figure, Myrna, wanted for years. The pain of self-inflicted guilt is worse than confessing their decades-long secrets.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499039387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An extremely dysfunctional family unites in the 90s due to the tragic death of their mother. Suicide? Undiagnosed mental illness? Most people never spoke of or knew about bi-polar or other subtle mental imbalances in the decades before the new millennium. Shocking and life altering secrets revealed about family members finally cleanse their troubled souls and bring them back into each others arms. This was the unaccomplished goal the mother figure, Myrna, wanted for years. The pain of self-inflicted guilt is worse than confessing their decades-long secrets.
BAC One-Eleven
Author: Stephen Skinner
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497294
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497294
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style.
Foster's Complete Hoyle
Author: Robert Frederick Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1874
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472983564
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published in 1864, and a new edition has been published every year since then. While limited-edition reprints of every edition of Wisden from 1864 to 1946 have been published over the past few decades, collecting these limited-edition reprints is not cheap as each one has normally been priced between £50 and £100. Now, for the first time, John Wisden & Co is offering a digital version of the 1866 edition, to allow cricket lovers more affordable access to this historic book which forms such a significant part of the game's great heritage.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472983564
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published in 1864, and a new edition has been published every year since then. While limited-edition reprints of every edition of Wisden from 1864 to 1946 have been published over the past few decades, collecting these limited-edition reprints is not cheap as each one has normally been priced between £50 and £100. Now, for the first time, John Wisden & Co is offering a digital version of the 1866 edition, to allow cricket lovers more affordable access to this historic book which forms such a significant part of the game's great heritage.
Colours in the Sky
Author: Graham M. Simons
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526725576
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa, where so many aircraft and airlines were created, bought and sold with such prolificacy that even he could not remember the names and how many there were! There is also the background to Court Line's shipping concerns and the Caribbean operations of the hotel chains and regional airline Leeward Islands Air Transport which Court owned for a while.Covered in detail is the introduction, demonstration and use of the Lockheed TriStar wide-bodied airliner, the first of the type used in the Inclusive Tour business.Court Line Aviation and Tom Gullick's Clarksons Holidays brought to the forefront the concept of value-for-money Inclusive Tour holidays following the 'vertical integration' business model whereby owning and controlling each step of the holiday allowed the company to make a small profit at every stage.The orange, pink, turquoise and yellow jets brought flashes of color to dreary British airports, and quickly streamed a multi-colored rainbow across European skies to Mediterranean destinations and even further afield. Truly they did indeed put colors in the Sky!
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526725576
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa, where so many aircraft and airlines were created, bought and sold with such prolificacy that even he could not remember the names and how many there were! There is also the background to Court Line's shipping concerns and the Caribbean operations of the hotel chains and regional airline Leeward Islands Air Transport which Court owned for a while.Covered in detail is the introduction, demonstration and use of the Lockheed TriStar wide-bodied airliner, the first of the type used in the Inclusive Tour business.Court Line Aviation and Tom Gullick's Clarksons Holidays brought to the forefront the concept of value-for-money Inclusive Tour holidays following the 'vertical integration' business model whereby owning and controlling each step of the holiday allowed the company to make a small profit at every stage.The orange, pink, turquoise and yellow jets brought flashes of color to dreary British airports, and quickly streamed a multi-colored rainbow across European skies to Mediterranean destinations and even further afield. Truly they did indeed put colors in the Sky!
Game
Author: Phil Truman
Publisher: GAME
ISBN: 1602477779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Who IS that Guy? Year in and year out the football powerhouse Hert City Trojans import a ringer to fuel their championship charge, but their luck is about to change. In the small backwater town of Tsalagee, first-year coach Donny Doyle knows the only way he can fulfill his promise to unseat the Hert City juggernaut, is to beat them at their own Game. But in his own recruit, the mammoth and powerful, yet troubled and ominous Leotis McKinley, Doyle finds more than he bargained for. Set in Oklahoma, author Phil Trumans character-rich novel Game spins an energetic tale around the intensity and weightiness of small-town high school football. And yet, amid the fast-paced drive of the story, lies an account of the human spirit struggling through adversity and finding victory. Readers of any age or gender, once the final word is read, will feel the triumph, honor, and glory that comes fromGame.
Publisher: GAME
ISBN: 1602477779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Who IS that Guy? Year in and year out the football powerhouse Hert City Trojans import a ringer to fuel their championship charge, but their luck is about to change. In the small backwater town of Tsalagee, first-year coach Donny Doyle knows the only way he can fulfill his promise to unseat the Hert City juggernaut, is to beat them at their own Game. But in his own recruit, the mammoth and powerful, yet troubled and ominous Leotis McKinley, Doyle finds more than he bargained for. Set in Oklahoma, author Phil Trumans character-rich novel Game spins an energetic tale around the intensity and weightiness of small-town high school football. And yet, amid the fast-paced drive of the story, lies an account of the human spirit struggling through adversity and finding victory. Readers of any age or gender, once the final word is read, will feel the triumph, honor, and glory that comes fromGame.