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Author | : Bill Rose |
Publisher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
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• An insight into British ambitious and often unrealistic aspirations to stay at the forefront of advanced technology such as the development of the atomic-powered warplane • The world’s first military flying wing was a British design that saw operational service during the First World War • A manned rocket-ship launched from a converted V-bomber was proposed, capable of reaching the edge of space • Beautifully illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs • Of interest to aviation and military historians, modellers, gamers and flight simulator enthusiasts Flying wings, deltas and tailless aircraft continue to generate enormous interest within the aviation community and many of the older designs still look surprisingly futuristic. British Special Projects: Flying Wings, Deltas and Tailless Designs examines the lesser-known and frequently secret British projects undertaken for research or military purposes during the last century and also covers those aircraft that were built and in some cases entered service. The first commercially successful British flying wing biplane designed by John Dunne undertook limited military reconnaissance duties during the First World War. Various flying wings followed but the German development of the delta would prove massively influential with post-war British aerodynamicists immediately recognising the potential for a new generation of high-performance designs. Parallel research into advanced flying wings would produce plans for the superb looking Barnes Wallace supersonic swing-wing bomber, although his design was too far ahead of its time to progress any further. There were also dead-end projects for bombers powered by atomic propulsion, vertical take-off concepts and over-ambitious ideas for British spacecraft that utilised delta- and blended-wing bodies, but were too technically challenging and costly to develop further. Nevertheless, many of these designs that stemmed from the simple flying wing remain influential today.
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Humanities |
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Author | : James Frederick John Gillen |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Reconstruction (1939-1951) |
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Author | : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Peter W. G. Morris |
Publisher | : Thomas Telford |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780727716934 |
This book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature ... There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their projects to the organisational, technological and socio-economic contexts in which projects must be managed. A good starting point would be for all project managers to read this ... book.'- Construction Management and Economics.
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1564 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Author | : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : British Information Services |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, British |
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Author | : Toby Burrows |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
ISBN | : 9780866569170 |
British university libraries have begun to face major financial, technological, and organizational challenges. Cuts in funding, the spread of new technology, and changes to the provision of university education as a whole are combining to fundamentally alter the circumstances in which university libraries operate. This valuable new book provides a thorough understanding of the major trends that have emerged during the past decade and projects them into the future to assess their likely effect over the next few years. By focusing on the most important developments in the areas of finance, staffing, collections, services, automation, and relations with other libraries, author Toby Burrows exposes the forces that threaten the very nature of the British university library. The changes affecting British universities as a whole are also analyzed since these broad influences have been a major cause of change in libraries and are essential to an understanding of that change. The future of the British university library depends on its ability to clearly articulate a coherent vision of its own future; this book takes a crucial step toward this goal. Dr. Burrows conducted the research for this book during the 1986/87 academic year as Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College in London.