Book Description
This revised and updated edition reveals many new details about the construction, development and operational history of Gloster aircraft. Appendices provide information on more than 100 Gloster projects.
Author : Derek N. James
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Gloster aircraft
ISBN :
This revised and updated edition reveals many new details about the construction, development and operational history of Gloster aircraft. Appendices provide information on more than 100 Gloster projects.
Author : Derek N. James
Publisher : Bodley Head
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780370000848
Fortæller om Glosterfabrikkernes start og udvikling samt om alle de forskellige fly, der har været produceret og om resultater opnået med disse
Author : Colin Sinnott
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714651583
This work describes the vitl role of the Air Ministry in the development of the RAF's fighters and bombers before WWII.
Author : Derek N. James
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
This text describes all the military and civil aircraft built by Westland since the N.1B single-seat seaplane. The helicopters, built now in close collaboration with Sikorsky, and used by armed forces throughout the world, are described in detail.
Author : Colin S Sinnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1135278814
This work examines the evolution of the RAF's operational requirements for its home defence air force - for bombers to mount a deterrent counter offensive and for fighters to provide direct defence of Britain. It discusses the management processes, policies and decisions relevant to operational requirements on the basis of a detailed study of Air Ministry papers of the time. By tracing the development of operational requirements, the author exposes the thinking behind the RAF's quest for effective fighter and bomber aircraft. He describes the ideas and concepts of air warfare that were adopted in the 1920s, and shows how these evolved into the Air Staff's requirements for the aircraft which the RAF entered and fought in World War II.
Author : David Pascoe
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2004-09-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1861894686
In his celebrated manifesto, "Aircraft" (1935), the architect Le Corbusier presented more than 100 photographs celebrating airplanes either in imperious flight or elegantly at rest. Dwelling on the artfully abstracted shapes of noses, wings, and tails, he declared : "Ponder a moment on the truth of these objects! Clearness of function!" In Aircraft, David Pascoe follows this lead and offers a startling new account of the form of the airplane, an object that, in the course of a hundred years, has developed from a flimsy contraption of wood, wire and canvas into a machine compounded of exotic materials whose wings can touch the edges of space. Tracing the airplane through the twentieth century, he considers the subject from a number of perspectives: as an inspiration for artists, architects and politicians; as a miracle of engineering; as a product of industrialized culture; as a device of military ambition; and, finally, in its clearness of function, as an instance of sublime technology. Profusely illustrated and authoritatively written, Aircraft offers not just a fresh account of aeronautical design, documenting, in particular, the forms of earlier flying machines and the dependence of later projects upon them, but also provides a cultural history of an object whose very shape contains the dreams and nightmares of the modern age.
Author : Tim Kershaw
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0752494996
In April 1941 Britain's first jet left the ground at a grass airfield 4 miles from Gloucester Cathedral. It was the start of a revolution in air travel, military and civilian. During the 1940s Britain's first-ever jet aircraft, the world's first jet fighter in squadron service and the first jet to hold the world air-speed record were all designed, built and flown in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. The story of Frank Whittle's invention and dogged development of the jet engine is well known. But the account of how his invention was put into the air has never been fully told. This book tells the story of how the men and women of north Gloucestershire made Whittle's engine fly.
Author : S. Mike Pavelec
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1573567191
In the 1930s, as nations braced for war, the German military build up caught Britain and the United States off-guard, particularly in aviation technology. The unending quest for speed resulted in the need for radical alternatives to piston engines. In Germany, Dr. Hans von Ohain was the first to complete a flight-worthy turbojet engine for aircraft. It was installed in a Heinkel-designed aircraft, and the Germans began the jet age on August 27, 1939. The Germans led the jet race throughout the war and were the first to produce jet aircraft for combat operations. In England, the doggedly determined Frank Whittle also developed a turbojet engine, but without the support enjoyed by his German counterpart. The British came second in the jet race when Whittle's engine powered the Gloster Pioneer on May 15, 1941. The Whittle-Gloster relationship continued and produced the only Allied combat jet aircraft during the war, the Meteor, which was relegated to Home Defense in Britain. In America, General Electric copied the Whittle designs, and Bell Aircraft contracted to build the first American jet plane. On October 1, 1942, a lackluster performance from the Bell Airacomet, ushered in the American jet age. The Yanks forged ahead, and had numerous engine and airframe programs in development by the end of the war. But, the Germans did it right and did it first, while the Allies lagged throughout the war, only rising to technological prominence on the ashes of the German defeat. Pavelec's analysis of the jet race uncovers all the excitement in the high-stakes race to develop effective jet engines for warfare and transport.
Author : Kenneth E. Wixey
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
This popular and highly-acclaimed series includes an abundance of photos, accurate line drawings, fascinating evaluations of aircraft design, and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
Author : Jan Roskam
Publisher : DARcorporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781884885570