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Vickers Aircraft Since 1908
Author | : Charles Ferdinand Andrews |
Publisher | : Putnam Aeronautical Books |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780851778150 |
Avro Aircraft Since 1908
Author | : Aubrey Joseph Jackson |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909
Author | : A.J. Jackson |
Publisher | : Naval Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Blackburn aircraft |
ISBN | : 9780870210242 |
Traces the history of the British aircraft company and describes the development and characteristics of each model of commercial and military aircraft they produced
Aircraft
Author | : David Pascoe |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-09-03 |
Genre | : 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.
Lockheed Aircraft Since 1913
Author | : René J. Francillon |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Aircraft of the Royal Navy
Author | : David Hobbs |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2024-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399089552 |
This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier design and operations can be explained. Every type – even unsuccessful single prototypes – is described; the majority are illustrated by photographs, many of which come from the author’s own collection, and the fifty most significant aircraft have detailed drawings. The Australian and Canadian Fleet Air Arms operated RN aircraft types for many years after their formation and these are included together with other types they have operated subsequently to give a more complete overview. The book describes over 400 different types of aircraft built by over 100 different manufacturers to offer the most detailed coverage of RN aircraft ever produced. Research for the book took over forty years and reference material included Admiralty Archives and an array of material in the public domain including manufacturers’ data, individual aircraft pilot’s notes and a wealth of published sources. David Hobbs is uniquely well placed to write this book having served in the RN for thirty-three years and retired with the rank of Commander. He flew both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft and his log book contains 2300 flying hours with 807 day and night deck landings. He served in seven British aircraft carriers and spent four years within RN Director General (Aircraft) Department where he was closely involved with Sea Harrier carrier trials and introduced new visual landing aids for night recoveries and liaised with the USN on carrier operating techniques. This is his eleventh book for Seaforth Publishing.
The History of Air Intercept Radar & the British Nightfighter 1935–1959
Author | : Ian White |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526743469 |
This detailed history of Air Intercept radar traces the development of this vital military technology with the Royal Air Force during WWII. In the years after World War I, the United Kingdom was desperate to develop some form of protection from an enemy air strike. As early as 1923, the British Army had devised “sound mirrors” that could detect aircraft up to twelve miles away. This technical history traces the development of military radar technology from this early, experimental phase to the creation of the first air-to-air radar systems and their uses in battle. Historian Ian White sets this fascinating narrative within the larger political, military, economic and technological context of the era. Through World War II, Air Intercept radar was a vital asset in protecting RAF bomber forces as well as the country itself. But developing the technology required the tireless work of physicists and engineers in the Air Ministry Research Establishment, particularly members of the Establishment’s Airborne Group working under Dr. Edward Bowen. Their Airborne Interception radars, such as the AI Mk. IV, were used in Blenheim night-fighters during the winter Blitz and by Mosquito during the Baedeker Raids. This in-depth history covers the introduction of centimetric technology at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, the creation of centimetric AI, and their installation in the Beaufighter and later marks of the Mosquito. It describes the creation of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and concludes with a section on further developments during the Cold War.