Book Description
Malcolm Fife explores the fascinating world of commercial aviation in Britain in the 1970s.
Author : Malcolm Fife
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445653044
Malcolm Fife explores the fascinating world of commercial aviation in Britain in the 1970s.
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : William Patrick Dean
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476665036
In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket boosters. With an interior the size of a gymnasium, "The Pregnant Guppy" was the first of six enormous cargo planes built by Aero Spacelines and two built by Union de Transport Aeriens. More than half a century later, the last Super Guppy is still in active service with NASA and the design concept has been applied to next-generation transports. This comprehensive history of expanded fuselage aircraft begins in the 1940s with the military's need for a long-range transport. The author examines the development of competing designs by Boeing, Convair and Douglas, and the many challenges and catastrophic failures. Behind-the-scenes maneuvers of financiers, corporate raiders, mobsters and other nefarious characters provide an inside look at aviation development from the drawing board to the scrap yard.
Author : David Butler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1980-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349162485
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Glen Segell
Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Air forces
ISBN : 1901414094
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Commerce
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Author : Philip Bagwell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852855901
Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.
Author : Lise Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0192607804
In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political, and cultural life, using his study of the social sciences to inform his political thought. In the mid-twentieth century the social sciences significantly expanded, and played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political and cultural life. Central to this intellectual shift was the left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young. As a Labour Party policy maker in the 1940s, Young was a key architect of the Party's 1945 election manifesto, 'Let Us Face the Future'. He became a sociologist in the 1950s, publishing a classic study of the East London working class, Family and Kinship in East London with Peter Willmott in 1957, which he followed up with a dystopian satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy, about a future society in which social status was determined entirely by intelligence. Young was also a prolific social innovator, founding or inspiring dozens of organisations, including the Institute of Community Studies, the Consumers' Association, Which?magazine, the Social Science Research Council and the Open University. Moving between politics, social science, and activism, Young believed that disciplines like sociology, psychology and anthropology could help policy makers and politicians understand human nature, which in turn could help them to build better political and social institutions. This book examines the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics between the end of the Second World War and the end of the first Wilson government through the figure of Michael Young. Drawing on Young's prolific writings, and his intellectual and political networks, it argues that he and other social scientists and policy makers drew on contemporary ideas from the social sciences to challenge key Labour values, like full employment and nationalisation, and to argue that the Labour Party should put more emphasis on relationships, family, and community. Showing that the social sciences were embedded in the project of social democratic governance in post-war Britain, it argues that historians and scholars should take their role in British politics and political thought seriously
Author : Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
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